Colorful pansies

Since I spent the day outside yesterday planting pansies and cabbages, I still have pansies on my mind. They are the prettiest flowers and come in so many colors.

I had to paint them.

Painted on a wooden serving tray...

and will be listed in my shop soon. I just have to final coat the tray and put the handles on.

Pansies and cabbages

It's a good day for fall planting. The weather is mild today, high 68, sunny and beautiful.

I'm planting pansies and ornamental cabbages.

The pansies will go in pots on the back porch and by the doors, and the ornamental cabbages (kale) will go in the window boxes on the front of the house. I chose pretty creamy yellow and maroonish colored pansies this year.....so many colors to choose from, and the nice thing is they will bloom until next spring and early summer. The kale will continue to grow all year and if you cut it back in the summer it will come up again in the fall.

That's what I'm doing today....happily digging in the dirt!

What are you up to today?

Pansies

Pretty pansies. They come in a wide range of glorious colors ~ purple, blue, lavender, violet, red, pink, plum, wine red, yellow, cream, white, bronze, apricot and more! They are an edible flower too.

With all the colorful pansies in the nurseries and garden centers right now and popping up in flower pots and gardens everywhere.....I was inspired to paint a pansy tray.

I've given it sort of a vintage look. The colors really pop on the black tray.

If you'd like to buy it, it's available. Find it on my etsy shop.