Sunday, July 29, 2018

Want a "Quickie" ? Today 7.29.19

“Quickies”

(All “Quickies” are photos taken and posted the same day)
These photos were taken this morning about 7:30 AM at the Gardens at Waters East. - - 7.29.18.  This is the time of year when the gardens are so very alive, with flowers, ants, bugs, bees and butterflies!.
Enjoy


 Lets enter through the Main Garden Gate.
Designed with Frank Lloyd Wright ideas in mind.


 Ghost Spider - 
fascinating every time I find one in the garden.


 Monarch Butterfly - 
one of the migrating wonders of the world!





We end this posting as the bee searches for more flowers!


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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Reference Note:  For a complete list of the ten (10) Principles of Designplus 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.








Thursday, July 26, 2018

GARDEN CLUB - TOUR

On Tuesday, July 24th.  a number of members from the Kewaunee County Garden Club came here to tour the gardens. A great group of people who obviously love gardening, make their yards look beautiful, and do lots of volunteer hours beautifying public spaces throughout the county.  So nice of them to visit.
They walked around checking-out a number of the twelve different garden rooms here at Waters East.  This was followed by a monthly meeting in the Asia Patio.

Here are a number of photos from the tour.

 The early arrivals.


 False Sunflower

 walking the Lake Path

 one of the Lily Fields in the gardens

 Native Monarda
listening as I spoke about garden ship artifacts
I have collected from Lake Michigan

 Daylily #29 mike at Lily Path

one of many day lilies
which I have hybridized here at Gardens at Waters East
#8 bicolor

 hybridized - # X1

 Ghost Spider

Daylily Locust 
the reddest red I have ever seen!

Middle Walk

 Virginia Blue Bells

Another one of the more than 450 day lilies I hybridized here. 
#8.4 orange flame

monthly meeting of the Kewaunee Garden Club
held in the Asia Patio


What would a garden club tour and meeting be - 
if there were no wine and "munchies???

Even the Ghost Spider had some "munchies" too!!








Monday, July 23, 2018

Spider Web - art and design


For three days this past week, fog rolled in off Lake Michigan.  There were times that it was so thick one could not even see the lake.  When the sun finally came out, in walking in the gardens, I saw literally thousands of webs. So many, and so many designs.  Thought you would enjoy the patterns as much as I did.
Enjoy










Sunday, July 15, 2018

BLOG SHOTS #115

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

moments in the garden - - enjoy


 November sunrise












Reference Note:  For a complete list of the ten (10) Principles of Designplus 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.

Monday, July 2, 2018

June 2018 - the second half!

Baptisia Australis and Bee

Here are only a few of the blooms from the second half of June.  This posting could go on forever, but I will just give you a hint of the many plants doing their best the past two weeks.

 Native Columbine

 False Sunflower - Heliopsis

Native - Flax

Do enjoy!
More to coming!


 Gootendorf Rose

 Horseradish

 Geranium - Johnston Blue

 Lilac - Krasavista Moskvy

 Middle Walk

 Peony

 Missouri Primrose

 Pond Iris

 Ped - pot

 Siberian Iris

Weigela - Wine & Roses

Spiderwort

So many more - but this is enough for today.