Garden Art

I have been working on this piece which is a digital collage/painting.  I have been struggling with the name and what do do with it, but it has something to do with my love of gardening.  I am considering a gardening series and want this to be the title image.  I have struggled more with the name than the image itself which flowed for me.  "Gardens of Symmetry" or "Confederate Jasmine and Other Southern Eccentrics" or "Kiss Me Over The Gate and Other Southern Charms" or "Confederate Jasmine and Other Forms of Civil Disobedience" or what?  In the South plants can make major statements.  Where I live we have growing season for about 9 months out of the year, so plants can just about take you over.  And I love their drama, the drape and strength of these plants.   I love Southern gardens, with their intense heat where shade is appreciated, and the way plants are associated with people, often because a plant was a pass-along.  Red geraniums will always be my Grandmother Carrie (Kate); Impatiens and white Oleander are my Mother; Mexican Petunia are my Aunt Carolyn; Roses are Daddy; Indian Hawthorne and Daylilies are my Sister; Lenten Rose are Cletis; Petunias are Nanny Black; Hydrangeas are me, and in the South Azaleas, Camellia and Crepe Myrtle are everybody.   At the fullness of Summer sometimes I marvel at my good fortune to live my life in a rich land of gardens with what remains of manners and cherished memories.

This piece has more work that is needed, but is on its way to inspiring a larger idea.