Plantings at Eton

We are fortunate to live near a beautiful shopping center called Eton. Besides housing one of the few remaining Barnes and Noble stores, there's a Trader Joe's, Anthropolgie, Sur le Table, Penzey's...and lots of other terrific shops and great restaurants.

My favorite thing, however, is the beautiful plantings in the summer time. We went over early this morning and took pictures before things got busy.

Here's a "big photo" of the general look:
My pretty car, Stella, as seen between two planters:

The picnic tables you see below are outside "B Spot," Michael Symon's burger restaurant. The plantings surrounding the tables consist of pole beans, herbs, tomatoes, etc:
















Here I am - all 5'4" of me - to show you the scale of some of the plantings:
And here's my Oldtimer, to show you the scale of another - outside Anthropologie:



I love this bench near the big chess board:

The animal print planters are very striking, too:

If you look around the base of the planters (above) you'll notice the "Supertunias" that are covering the ground. I've always seen them trailing from hanging planters - never realized they could almost be ground cover!