Outside, multitudes of extravagantly planted containers wash up against the house; flow along the driveway; bedeck all doors; arrange themselves in front of the garage (used strictly for storage); then march valiantly out into borders to make sculptural pyramids. Here are spiky agaves, colourful aeoniums and the succulent rosettes of echeverias; over there, exotic hibiscus, curvaceous hostas, delicate ferns and a kaleidoscope of coleus, to name but a few.
?White Wings? caladium shines with ferns (Pteris) and dark begonia.