Red Shrimp Plant June 20, 2015

I dug up two clumps of shrimp plant from the house on Nixon Lake Road.  They limped through their first summer, which was last summer, and this summer thanks to the rain they look healthy.  They tend to get taller and leggier.  And the clumps get bigger each year.

Above, I planted them in a bed where we have a ship's porthole hanging from a tripod. My sister picked it up at a garage sale and gave it to me many years later when she couldn't figure out what to do with it.

Above and below, it is easy to see how it got its name.