I stumbled upon this quote the other day and it expresses my thinking and feelings exactly!
"There is one good thing about snow,
it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor’s."
- Clyde Moore
Gardening and Landscaping on the shore of Lake Michigan in Zone 4 - Zone 5. The special circumstances, needs and assets, for lake area gardening. Blogs to cover ongoing gardening and plantings, developments and issues, special plants. This is a photo journal of gardening as a hobby, shared with those of like mind.
I stumbled upon this quote the other day and it expresses my thinking and feelings exactly!
"There is one good thing about snow,
it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor’s."
- Clyde Moore
Spring is happening!
This week many of the birds have been returning to spend the summer here and others are just passing through on their way further north. Nice to know they are once again in the area. There have been Robins, Redwing Blackbirds, Crows, Eagles, Sandhill Cranes, Chickadees, Doves, Common Blackbirds, Cardinals, Meadow Larks, Purple Finch and others.
Here are a couple of photos of some of them.
A sampling of a sunrise on one of the early Spring days.
Every morning is a “show” here at the shore.
Interesting, one day this past week March 13, 2024,
I walked out into the garden and to my surprise there was a raccoon sleeping up in a tree!
I think I woke him up.
Enjoy your days this time of year as we all get back into our gardens.
It is still the dead of winter though it has been a rather warm winter in this area. I miss all the many blooms that happen here in the Spring, Summer, and Autumn. With that in mind, I took a “memory walk” around the gardens this week while recalling the plants that have been here, and will be retuning again this year.
Believe it or not, there are hundreds of cultivars in these gardens. I was amazed when I sat down with my “log of plantings” here and discovered that there are hundreds and hundreds of different cultivars.
My pride and joy are the more than 1000 daylilies I have hybridized that exist nowhere else on Earth except here in the Gardens At Waters East, except for the three home in Guatemala and the four homes in the USA with which I have shared some of the plants. They are pretty special and unique.
Since this year is a leap year and we all get an extra day - - Thursday the 29th of February, I thought we could view a few extra plants from the gardens.
Enjoy a few more, “snapshot” of flowers here.
One Singular Sensation
Special never before seen photo from
Gardens at Waters East
If you enjoy looking at garden photos without many words, here is your chance!!!
Early Winter – before the Snow
Here are twenty-five (25) close-up photos of a few plants in the Gardens at Waters East taken just days before any snow had fallen. In another posting, once it snows, I will take a few more photos, showing close-ups of the snow on some of the same plants.
Enjoy the details in the plants, amazing even after the blooms have gone.