Again Two in One Day

The morning glories are planted in the French planter; they need "dirt" and some under-planting, but that will be for another day. Do enlarge this picture by clicking on it, the tiny dark thing in front of the morning glories is the coral bead plant I found in the magazine mentioned in the previous post. It's in a tiny cobalt blue ceramic horn of plenty pot.

The morning glories are 1/4" (6 mm) circles, each with a magenta centre and a white, acrylic ink star in them. There are 25 or so of them on the plant; I didn't count the leaves, just filled things in until I liked the look of things. The flowers have calyxes, i.e. each one is set on a twisted piece of wire dipped in white paint. I think I am crazy, but I may add some jewelry wire tendrils and some buds.

The coral bead plant is made with a small clump of model railroad foliage, with some mixed foliage scatter over top, while the tiny beads are HO gauge(?) oranges. I found the best way to attach those was to dip the tip of a toothpick in glue, pick up an orange ball, then sort of smear that in place on the foliage clump. Not very elegant, but it worked!