Friday, February 27, 2015

BLOG SHOTS #67

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

 Cana - rain drops

 Foggy Day at the gardens

 Gottendorff Rose

 German Bearded Iris
Lake Michigan in background

 Peony - Red

 April Sunrise

 blooms celebrating the sunshine


 Yacca in the morning sun


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.

If you wish to email a message or share photos of your garden
please do that through this Blog site or with an email to:


Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Seasonal Contrast in the Garden #15

Seasonal Contrast in the - Gardens at Waters East

Postings in this ongoing series will show the same garden “area” and “objects” at two or more different times / seasons of the year.  The contrast will offer the viewer an appreciation of the beauty found in the same spot but in different months.  Some of the photos have never been seen before, others were collected from earlier postings in order to provide the needed contrast.  Each season has its own “feeling”, has its own  beauty.
This is the area in the gardens known as The Rain Garden.  All the rain water from the southern half of the roof on the home is piped underground to this area where it is filtered before seeping off into Lake Michigan.

Enjoy

 Driftwood - brought up from StoneWater Beach
February

 Petasites japonicus - "Dinosaur Food"

 June

 December

 August


 Lake View in June



Reference Note:  If you check out the archives for this Blog, you will find a number of “contrast” postings in this series.  All help in understanding the gardens throughout the year.

NOTE:  All photos use in this posting were taken on the property of Gardens at Waters East.

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Saturday, February 14, 2015

Valentine's Day - RED

Since today is Valentine Day;  on this cold, snowy, and very windy morning, it was decided that  a few photos of better days – focusing on shades of red – might warm everyone up!


It is a day for Lovers, a day for Friends.  Even the American Eagles seem to want companionship on days like this.  Here they are perched along the south area of the gardens, - - - checking me out!


Enjoy some red today!

 Daylily

 Geranium Leaf

 Coneflower with Ghost Spider

 What would Valentine's Day be like without a Rose?

 Cosmos - from Hanna

 Maltese Cross

 Rose


 Peony with Morning Dew

 "Red" Phlox with Lysimachia Punctata

 Red Peony

 Weigela

Geranium

Let us end where we began!



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.

If you wish to email a message or share photos of your garden
please do that through this Blog site or with an email to:



Thursday, February 12, 2015

The Tree - 2015 #1 - Scotch Pine

A new year, a new tree to follow – New Beginnings

Earliest photo I have of The Tree - five months after planting
September 25, 2010

This year the Gardens at Waters East will be following a Scotch Pine – Pinus sylvestris.  It grows here in the Asian Patio Garden on the property along the shores of Lake Michigan.  Throughout the year you will be able to see the ever-so-slight development of an evergreen, which as you know, is much less noticeable than that of a deciduous tree.  Though the growing development is by far less noticeable, the tree will show progression as the warm weather comes to the Gardens at Waters East.


January 31, 2011

Here are a few information facts about this special tree;
It was bought and planted in April of 2010.  Height at the time of planting was four feet.  It had some preliminary “sculpting” so that it was a great addition to the Asian Patio Garden – giving a needed bonsai effect for that area.  During each of the past Januarys,  a “tweaking” of trimming was done to help preserve that bonsai effect as best as possible.  It has been a learning experience on how to, and maybe how not to bonsai along the way!


June 20, 2011

The short blue-green needles contrast with the bark giving the tree a good deal of interest.  The tree itself is listed as hardy down to a sub-temperature of -30 to -40 F.  Last year the winter of 2013-14  proved a real test of its ability for survival.  By the time March 2014 arrived – most of the needles were gone with only a few at the bottom staying green.  Those that stayed green did so because they were buried in the snow of that winter.  Those that were exposed to the wind and extreme cold of this past winter, all fell off onto the ground.  It looked dead and was about to be cut down when a visitor to the garden said – “just let it be for a couple of months, it might survive”.  The visitor had more hope in that tree than I.


August 10, 2011

As you can see, it has survived through last summer.  However the shock of the winter of 2013-14 did take a toll on the tree.  The needles did not grow as long nor were there as many.  This year will be the true test as to how well this Scotch Pine will revive its full beauty and strength.


September 23, 2014

The monthly postings on this special tree will show the survival and progress as the season of 2015 comes into full “glory”.  The saga of the Scotch Pine now continues.


Photo taken this week: February 9, 2015
after my "bonsai" attempt

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.

If you wish to email a message or share photos of your garden
please do that through this Blog site or with an email to:


Wednesday, February 11, 2015

A Year of Sunrises

Every morning brings a different day and a different sunrise.  Some are great, some are really awesome.  It is difficult to capture in photos the “feel” of a new day.  Some mornings radiate colors of the spectrum, some only shades of grey, but all are welcomed giving life another day for the Gardens at Waters East.

The following pictures are a collection of one photo from each of the months of the year.  So many more in the files, but this will have to do.

Wake up with the sunshine,  wake up with a smile!

 January

 February

 March

 April

 May

 June

 July

 August

 September

 October

 November

December



NOTE:   All photos use in this posting were taken on the property of Gardens at Waters East.

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
please do that through this Blog site or with an email to:


Friday, February 6, 2015

BLOG SHOTS #66

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


 Bumblebee on Pasque Flower seed head

 Siberian Iris - Caesar's Brother

 Blue Flax

 German Bearded Iris

 Gootendorf Rose
Lake Michigan in the background

 Phlox & Peony

 Lichen

Rainbow in the evening
panorama photo
sunset
June 30, 2014
Gardens at Waters East


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.

If you wish to email a message or share photos of your garden
please do that through this Blog site or with an email to: