Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Take a Look at June 2013


“Will you take a look at June 2013!!!”
This June, the many garden rooms in the Gardens at Waters East finally started to “strut their stuff” and show their beauty.  It has been a long cold Winter and a long cool Spring but June proved worth the wait.  Here are never before seen photos taken during this month of June -- the sights on the property of GAWE.  Lots of action from weather fronts, and lots of color from sun loving perennial.
Enjoy your visit


 Oriental Poppy
first blooming this morning

View South toward Lake Michigan

Chives & Bumble Bee

 Anemone - native

 Wood Thrush
on Asian Patio Fence

 Flax

 Lamium

 Lily of the Valley

 Phlox - native

 Seed Head - Pasque Flower

 Red Peony & more

 Forget-me-not & Bee

 Fog rolling in off Lake Michigan
This happens often during June covering the gardens

 Bearded Iris

 Sedum in bloom

 A Visitor - enjoying lunch on me!

 Spiderwort

 Spider Web
on original sculpture
"Stone Circles"

 Violet

 Geranium - Splish Splash

 Siberian Iris
Lake Michigan in background East

 Spirea - Grefshim

 Variegated Vinca

Bearded Iris

 Sunset - looking East
over Lake Michigan
June 12, 2013

Sunset - looking West
June 12, 2013


NOTE:   Since this Blog is meant to be an accurate journal of the gardens;
no photos are “staged”, “arranged”, or ”photo-shopped” in anyway.
What is posted – is what it here.  It is what it is.

StoneWater Beach
private beach
Gardens at Waters East

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Friday, June 21, 2013

BLOG SHOTS #45


GAWE - BLOG  SHOTS

Each month Gardens at Waters East (GAWE) will post a few never before seen photos of “garden life” called - - BLOG SHOTS.  Here are the photos for this posting.

moments in the garden - - enjoy



 Poppy & Marguerite Daisy

 Siberian Iris

 Bluff Overlook Garden Room
Lake Michigan

 Seed Head of Pasque Flower
with Bumble Bee

 Phlox & Peony-red
Circle Rock - Original Garden Sculpture

 Rain Drops on Karst Rock
part of Niagara Escarpment in the gardens

 Siberian Iris - Caesar's Brother - blue
looking through the original sculpture
"Portholes"
made from the porthole glass
of the ferry - - Straits of Machinac
(more details on this ship can be found in the archives - January 2, 2011)

 Spiderwort - Tradescantia

 Early Spring Leaves
Spirea

 Moss Rose

Geranium - Splish Splash


 Spirea - Grefsheim


Reference Note:  For a complete list of the ten (10) Principles of Design plus the special “Golden Principle of Design” used throughout Gardens at Waters East, check out the archive postings for November 14 – 24, 2010 and May 2, 2011.


NOTE:   All photos use in this posting were taken on the property of Gardens at Waters East
unless otherwise marked.
NOTE:   Since this Blog is meant to be an accurate journal of the gardens;
no photos are “staged”, “arranged”, or ”photo-shopped” in anyway.
What is posted – is what it here.  It is what it is.

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Monday, June 17, 2013

Want a "Quickie" ? Today 6.17.13


“Quickies”

(All “Quickies” are photos taken and posted the same day)
These photos were taken this morning in the Gardens at Waters East. - - 6.17.13
There was a fast moving storm at mid-morning, after it passed, some really great photos   - - -   A feast for the eyes.
Enjoy



 Looking Southeast

 Bachelor Button
Centaurea Montana

Overhead & Over Lake Michigan

 Peony - Red



 Allium Mt. Everest

Lady's Mantle



Bearded Iris

 Native Phlox

Spiderwort

Storm Clouds over Lake Michigan

And Then - - The Rainbow

NOTE:   Since this Blog is meant to be an accurate journal of the gardens;
no photos are “staged”, “arranged”, or ”photo-shopped” in anyway.
What is posted – is what it here.  It is what it is.

If you wish to email a message or share photos of your garden
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