Gardens at Waters East: April 2012

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Seasonal Contrast in the Garden #5

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 in the Gardens at Waters East. 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. In this posting the "olive jar" (as everyone calls it) is seen during the four seasons of the year.

Enjoy

Sunrise - November 11th.

Moonrise - June 14th.

Morning - three days latter!

Daytime - March 3rd.

Noon - August 9th.

Early Morning - February 24th.

Daytime - February 14th.

Afternoon - October 3rd.

Afternoon Shadows - March 27th.

Midday - June 24th.

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.

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Thursday, April 12, 2012

BLOG SHOTS #31

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

Sunrise

August 20, 2011

Gardens at Waters East

Daylily #8

an original daylily hybridized at

Gardens at Waters East

(for many more new daylilies see archives for January 4 - 7, 2011)

Allium Drumstick

Sunflower - Maximillium

with bumble bee

Crocus

March 21, 2012

StoneWater Beach

private beach of

Gardens at Waters East

Lake Michigan

as seen from

Gardens at Waters East

Marguerite Daisy

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

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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Climate Change - - - Who's Asking?

Sunrise

Gardens at Waters East

Gardens at Waters East keeps detailed records both in a double entry form on hard copy, and in a computer data base of all its more than 10,000 plants with their blooming charts. In reviewing the past ten years, there has been a steady movement in the “year after year” earlier appearance of blooms. Many people can attest to this fact in their own gardens. This year there has been a giant leap in the earlier dates of flowers bursting forth.

Here at the shores of Lake Michigan, Spring is always long and slow in coming. While folks west of the lake, say 20 miles, have seen temperatures this Spring in the 80s for many days this March, at the lake the temperatures as is always the case close to the lake, are far lower. This year when the folks to the west were enjoying the high temperature, at the lake it was only 47F – 55F degrees on those same days. The lake is a natural air conditioner, much appreciate in the Summer months, but at Springtime one gets a little jealous of the warmth found only a few miles west.

With all those factors taken into account, this year has been extraordinary in the timing of the early Spring flowers. Below are photos of the very plants with their first Spring blooms this year. Following each photo is the date taken this year when it first bloomed, and under that are the dates for 2011 and 2010 of the first bloom for the same plant. (The photos posted are of the actual first bloom this year. They may not be the “prettiest” pictures but they are the photos of record for this season.).

Amazing!