Tag: Flowers
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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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Clematis Frame the Mid-September Garden
The laceleaf maple leaves are turning a lovely crimson. Makes a nice contrast with the starry white clematis ‘Sweet Autumn’ climbing the fence and deck post. The gold and blue hostas and purple ligularia may be a bit scruffy from the dry summer but still carry form and color to contrast to the also white flowered blooming…
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Oregano and Mint Underated Flowering Groundcovers
Part of what makes this garden space and path wonderful is the lavender spikes of mint that have been flowering abundantly all summer long. See them at the bottom of the photo. The white flowering oregano spills onto to fieldstone step (out of view) so that I brush past them and release their fragrance with each descent. The…
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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…
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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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Cool Views from Above
The back garden’s on a lower level–great to see from my office and the shady refuge of the lower patio–but not visible directly from the first floor. However, I’ve learned deck rail viewing. Nice mornings I enjoy coffee on the deck and view the gardens from above. I love the tapestry created by the plantings. …
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Solstice Musings
A warm summer twilight lured me to the lower gardens to witness astonishing shadows, highlights,and color nuances. Watching the shifting patterns of light and dark reveling in leaves, flowers, textures, forms, and colors became a joyous Solstice eve celebration. No photos but a memory of enjoyed garden moments. Today is the summer solstice and the longest day of the…
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A Lovely June Day
Spring Anemone Steals the Show Plant Anemone canadensis when you want to carpet a large area. Too vigorous for a small spot in a border. Here it works to echo the shape of the long narrow walk as it directs your attention to the garden below with its beckoning color and texture. Meanwhile, I’m challenged to…
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Morning Greetings
Birdsong, streaming sunlight, happy plants greet me most mornings. For most of May, the white climbing clematis vine (is it alba or grandiflora?) treats me to its lovely floral display. With or without flowers, the vines connect my deck to my garden and the woodland view beyond. Below deck, it’s wonderful as well. I enjoy it from my office and the lower patio.…