Tag: Designed Garden Journey
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Pattern and Texture found in Golden Gate Bridge Gardens
Golden Gate Bridge’s remarkably beautiful Southeast Side Gardens overlooking the bridge filled my eyes with plant combinations and filled my soul with textural details. (You know the phrase, “God is in the details”?) The leaf pattern of a plant unknown to me (it could native to South America, South Africa, or Europe’s Mediterranean Sea Area) fascinated and…
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Will these Late Bloomers Last ’til Thanksgiving?
The bench always invites no matter the season and also frames the garden view here. The plantings embrace and these ‘Clara Curtis’ daisies romp freely in the garden. Indeed, plant them with plenty of room and the intent to control them in early spring by pulling out the expanding ones. I’m enjoying them daily and…
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The Late October Garden Flowers Still
Roses and the blue aconitum bloom in concert with the now maroon oak leaves and frost bitten foliage.
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Gaillardia and Allium, August Stars
The yellow’s the long flowering Gaillardia ‘Lemons and Oranges’ and the Allium is a August blooming ornamental onion. The variety’s a mystery to me. I tried to identify it on the web, but the photos chiefly display the round flower head without reference to scale. Reading text descriptions on other websites, I’m at a loss for this plant’s…
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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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Astilbe Path
The back garden path all-but-disappears by mid-summer. This is not a mistake, but intended. By the sixth month it becomes a path of lush abundance. Not unlike the journey in many Japanese gardens where you are forced because of the unevenness of the stone path to look at down your feet and thus encounter something not seen when looking…
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A Few Garden Moments
Yellow perennial Digitalis grandiflora and red Dianthus ‘Frosty Fire”? highlight the foliage of Hemerocallis and Enkianthus White Iris siberica, blue and yellow Hosta ‘Francis Williams’, yellow Hosta ‘Sum and Subtance’, pink Agilegia Designed as a journey of garden moments–sometimes at first all I see are the weeds and the plants that need dead heading. Then the…