Is your yard wearing a banana clip?

This is a banana clip. The go-to hair accessory of the 80's.

We wore them to impress, to dress up an otherwise "not mint" hair day, and of course, to mercilessly compete with other girls and their banana clips.

Then one day we all realized that banana clips meant we were just giving up...phoning in our look that day. So we tossed them out, gave them to people we didn't like, or used them as tiny bear traps.

OR DID WE?????

I would like to submit that if you have decorated your front yard with some $5.99 mum you got at a gas station (and God forbid, left it in the plastic pot!) your yard is wearing a banana clip.

Don't get me wrong. I love mums. They herald fall, the best season ever, and make you feel like you're in New England, or even better, in a scene from "Scent of A Woman" (And if you haven't seen it, fall is a great time to do that...with the exception of any other time.)

Aaaaaaaaanyway, plain, old, busted mums are just plain old giving up. If you just toss them out on your front step without any thought, they are as 80's as a banana clip.

But unlike the banana clip, they can still have some relevance. If you get a big, gorgeous mum in one of those apple crates or mix them in with some decorative grasses, pansies, flowering cabbage...they can sit at the cool table again. (And you can't get any of the cool-table-stuff at a gas station or supermarket or superstore...especially if you want it to look good and live. You have to go to a garden center like Gerten's or something.)

Below are decorative pots that would happily welcome a mum or two.

Oooooooooh. Right?

I think you know what to do.

(This post was not brought to you by Gerten's, even though they have been a client of mine and I would recommend getting all of your gardening supplies and tools and even gifts there. I also

bought an apple there once and it was super crunchy.)

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