Tag: Beauty
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Take a Moment to Notice the Autumn Light on the Plumes
As landscape designers, we create spaces to experience “outside” and a large part of that experience is creating planting combinations that work four seasons. This ornamental grass glows with the light of late afternoon and contrasts the deep maroon fall leaves and green conifer beyond. We imagine them, you get to take a moment and look…
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Charming Frost Colored Leaves
The sun highlighted this ‘Johnson’s Blue’ perennial geranium foliage when I went to fetch the Sunday paper. The spotlight shifted when I photographed it minutes later, but you get the idea of these brilliant lovely orange leaves complimented by the blue/gray dianthus, the brown astilbe, and the green chamaecyparis conifer foliage. Even though it’s mid November look for combinations…
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Green Fronds and White Trunks on an August Afternoon
Is it the oxygen in a fern woodland that makes it feel so special? Do the fronds soften and reflect sound to offer a ‘soothing silence’? It may be a combination of silence, oxygenated air, or the relief one gets from leaving an open hot sunlit field to enter a shady woodland. Whatever ever it is, as…
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Prettiest Tree Stump You’ll Ever See
Best looking rock , stump, and plant combination ever! While wandering the charming grounds of the amazingly good Jacob’s Pillow Dance in Becket, MA, I found this shady corner. The perennial geranium (probably a geranium macrorrhizum) meanders and cascades throughout the bed to showcase the stump as a special and sculptural object d’art. A couple of hosta and good sized rocks…
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More Discoveries on the Road
Continuing the theme of treasures found while traveling, on the lower path at Coastal Maine Botanical Garden I found this Viburnum in full fruit. It’s one of my favorites–Viburnum p. ‘Mariesii”–lovely in spring flower as well as summer fruit. Certainly a treasure found on the beckoning trail meandering on in the distance.
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Treasure Found Reminds Me of Another Journey
Perhaps this photo expresses the genius locii of the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden’scultivated landscape. It features interwoven masses of perennials embracing the immense ‘erratic boulder’. The outcropping reminds me of Uluru or Ayer’s Rock in Australia–not anywhere as large, of course, but with the same slumbering sentience that some large stone masses exude. It also features…
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Treasures from the Road
Exploring the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden in Boothbay, ME found me on a narrow path deep in the woods. Perhaps this photo reveals the essence of the wild part of CMBG?
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An Unexpected Encounter
Last post, I was wondering how the Ligularia d. ‘Othello” would open to full flower. Away for a few days, camera in hand, I went to check it out. Lo and behold! An unexpected visitor! Unexpected because it’s a new plant in my garden planted for its leaf shape, dark stems, leaf color, and shocking orange brilliance in…
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Unfolding Fascination
I planted the ligularia (L. dentata ‘Othello’) because of its wonderful heart leaf shape and purplish greenish coloration (more purple in spring–more green in summer). It gives contrast and texture midst the hostas. I’d seen it in flower in other gardens, but never watched the flower unfolding. See the pod-like shape in the lower part…