southern fried gal

OK – so one of my favorite new friends – OK blog persons that I stalk – is the Nester. I even added her wonderful blinky to my sidebar so you can go directly to her link from my blog! She’s hosting a P.O.O.P.I.E. Party (People Opposing Objectionable Pretend plants In the Environment). You can read all about it here.

I know I’m new to blogging so you may not know that I have a thing for fake plants. Don’t get me wrong – I would prefer all fresh but I just don’t have the budget or time for that at this point.

I think I have a pretty discerning eye (or lots of really nice friends that tell me fibs) and agree with Nester on trying to keep it as real as possible. I even fool some folks into thinking a few are real sometimes.

Anyway, here’s my contribution to the party. I like a little funky pop of color on the door to greet guests and passersby. I like to change it up with each season – like maybe twigs and berries for January or leaves and pumpkins for fall – you get the picture.

So, this is my spring door bucket from last year…

Reasonably cute – although it is not quite in the original form because some new friends decided to do a little rearranging…

Yes, they are cute but also quite messy and I had to play momma bird and get all protective with my front door until they could fly fly fly. Here they are a little older and look at what they’ve done to my fake arrangement…disgusting!

Maybe I took the P.O.O.P.I.E. party a little too literally. Sorry if so but I hope you got a good giggle along the way! Needless to say I had to chunk those flowers and sanitize my bucket. It got a bright new arrangement this spring and when my friends came back I took it down until they settled into a bush in the flower bed – much better place to raise such a nice family.

Thanks, Nester, for challenging us in this area! I will admit I’ve looked around and I see that it is time to reevaluate some of my older greenery choices – maybe they were good several years ago but it is time to move on now.

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I’d love to hear about the plants and flowers in your home – real, nicely faked, or just really bad?