Kicking it

Last summer we asked Jon, our garden guy, to find some bougainvilleas with a few shots of color to make our southern deck "wall" more interesting.

The green things there -- aralias of various kinds -- were doing OK, but
. . . they were green things.

They are all very much larger green things now, but among them are a few delicious bits of tropical heat.

They'll need pruning and braiding in years to come, but their thorns will make that stretch of fence a fortress.