Seasonal cheer in living form

Who needs artificial holiday decorations when nature provides abundant blooms and foliage in seasonal colors. Here the red is from kalanchoe. Many of the greens are from succulents and ivy. White mums complete the color palette, unless you count the spots yellow from the lemons.

Perfect banner Elizabeth!

And is that a type of Dusty Miller in the upper left side? It adds the silver touch to the display. I didn't think seasonal/christmassy until you mentioned, now I can't unsee it! Beautiful banner!

Lots of interesting textures, too! Beautiful!

What a delightful banner!

Thanks everyone. I confess I forgot that one of my banner submissions was scheduled for today.
Here's the source image. Because it's a photomerge (aka panorama), it won't show much more than the banner itself does on this site. You do get a better view of the lemons, though.



To answer @Murky's question, yes the plants on the left are Dusty Miller. They're one of my favorite accent plants for groupings like this. Nothing else has quite their color or leaf shape.

Your banner is really striking. Just love it.

I've often thought of putting Dusty Miller in a few of my planters, but everything needs to stay moist, and not sure that would suit Dusty Miller, if it would thrive. I'll just have to try it one summer in 1 container at least and see. I really do love it's color and texture as well.