Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Garden Gawk: Public Spaces in the City of Wautoma
Actually, this is the widest space pictured here and part of a commercial space pf a business which sells a few potted plans, pots, statues, antiques, etc. catering to tourists. |
Newspaper box as garden art? I will qualify this as being the backside of a planting that is adjacent to a municipal parking lot. |
Someday (?) this will look pulled together... |
This hellstrip is the narrowest piece of "hell" I've ever seen. It is a two foot wide space between two parking lots reclaimed by the Waushara County Master Gardeners. |
The sign should say Wetlands "Parking", as the space around the sign is just about the whole park. |
This rustic metal sculpture is a good value-added... |
But they should have stopped right there. The bo-dingly value-added butterfly on a wire just adds that trash garden aspect too prevalent here in Waushara County. |
I suppose this was the best they could do, hiding these utilities on the back of a park sign, again it is more a "parking sign". |
Another hellstrip |
If the gardeners of the public space are lucky they have a fence as a backdrop... |
...all too often it is an open space between parking space and street. |
None of these spaces is ever watered. The plants included tend to be drought tolerant perennials and natives. I suppose it is better than expecting a tree to survive in the space allowed; something you see a lot of in larger cities in Wisconsin. Did you know the life expectancy of a city street tree is just seven years?
Monday, July 29, 2013
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Cherry Picking
I had never done it, picked cherries in Door County.
My mother and I had a great day in Door County, ate at a Kristi's Pub, picked cherries, saw the King of the Garden Gnomes and took in the Door Garden run by the Master gardeners of Door County, which is a very talented bunch of people. I'll do a separate post on that, but the bench from this post was at the Door Garden on the Door County Agricultural Research Station.
Tart cherries |
So bucolic |
These step ladders are great. So stable! |
We picked our cherries at Cherry Lane Orchard. They didn't pay me to blog about it, though. They have a website, but I doubt they know about blogging. They kept sales records in a handwritten sales ledger. |
My mother and I had a great day in Door County, ate at a Kristi's Pub, picked cherries, saw the King of the Garden Gnomes and took in the Door Garden run by the Master gardeners of Door County, which is a very talented bunch of people. I'll do a separate post on that, but the bench from this post was at the Door Garden on the Door County Agricultural Research Station.
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Incredibly, Unbelieveably, Beautifully
This garden bench dedicated to Emma at the Garden Door Agricultural Research Station in Door County was...
Friday, July 26, 2013
From the Garden: Pictures
Peacock gladiola |
"Rejected" daylily |
Phlox (not sure which, maybe Laura or Bright Eyes) |
Liatris with that daylily bought in a drive-by sale |
Fuschia, amaranth 'Green Love', and a dark sport of 'Tilt A Whirl' coleus, back-lit |
The long border gets better and better! |
White four o' clock |
Purple-tinged 'Summer Beauty' allium and False Japanese Red Cypress 'Boulevard' |
Please enjoy!
Thursday, July 25, 2013
On Things Seen and Unseen
Shimmering, it seemed alive... |
At first the erratic glow seemed other worldly... |
Maybe a dimensional shift, a gap in the fabric of the universe... |
The refraction of light in just such a way off my brimming bowl as I watered my potted plants... |
Maybe...the light is alive, and on a joy ride...
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