Seasonal Contrast #9 The Lantern

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.

In this posting the focus is on the Japanese Lantern placed on an “island stone” in the Asian Garden.  It is carved out of heavy granite and sets the “atmosphere” the “feel” for this special garden room.

Enjoy

 Sambucus - Black Lace in Bloom - June

 Eight months latter

 Morning Sunrise - February

Summer Day - July

 Snow Storm - Beginning

January

Sambucus - Black Lace

with leaves

 Sambucus - Black Lace

without leaves

 Formal Garden in Background

August

 Midsummer Lilies - July

 Shadows - February

 Asters & Hosta - September

 Sunrise - January

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.

Japanese Lantern

Lake Michigan in the background

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:

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BLOG SHOTS #50

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  -  Gardens at Waters East

August

 Missouri Primerose

Late October

 Rose

 East Field

Lake Michigan in Background

 Native Sunflower - Maximillium

Cosmos

from Hanna of Sweden

 Creeping Phlox

 Garden Resident

Looking for Lunch

 View toward Formal Garden

Lichen on Lily Path Bench

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:

www.gardensatwaterseast@Yahoo.com

Mutant "Freaks" in the Garden

Here is an interesting look at coneflowers from this past summer.  They are a very hardy group of plants needing no care what-so-ever.  There are hundreds here in the Gardens at Waters East.  The colors, the forms, the vitality of these plants adds much to any garden space.  As a contrast to these “regular” coneflower plants which are posted here, take notice as you scroll down the photos.  You will find “mutations”.  There were three different “mutant” plants this year.  Something happened to make these blooms turn out the way they did.  Any ideas?

Check out these coneflowers.

 Field of Coneflowers

 Mutant

 Mutant

 Mutant

 White & Purple Coneflowers

Lake Michigan in Background

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.

Coneflower Seed Heads

photo taken tonight

11.15.13

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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.

Autumn "Cutting" 2013

This was the week to cut back the perennials in the Gardens at Waters East.  It takes hours and days, but always happy to get it done.  The next step is to rake up all the cuttings from the garden rooms and move the piles to a composting site.  Lots of work yet to do over the next two weeks.  Happy to have this much done!

While moving around the gardens cutting plants this week, a few photos were taken for the garden journal files showing some of the remaining blooms and sights.  Here are a few from the work this week.

 Setting Sun

spotlighting - Barberry "Golden Nugget"

on Asian Patio

 Mallow Selvestri

 cutting at Middle Walk

 Geranium - Johnston Blue

 Lavender

 cutting at Rain Garden

 Guttendorf Rose

leaves turned yellow

 Magnolia - Royal Star

Autumn Berries

 Milkweed Pods

Yarrow & Sedum Autumn Joy

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:

www.gardensatwaterseast@Yahoo.com

Summer Visitors - LOTS

Trust me on this one.  There were enough photos taken this summer of the many visitors to the gardens here that one could make a “coffee table book” collection!  Since the gardens sit on the shores of Lake Michigan,  literally thousands of birds migrate through the area in Spring and in Fall.  Thousands and thousands.  Tens of thousands.  Those that stop over for a visit find an almost unlimited number of bugs to feast on in order to fatten up and have energy for the rest of their journey. Speaking of the bugs, as you will see in the photos, many of them are feasting on other “bugs”.

It was surprising when going over the photos from this Summer, to see the number of bugs, birds, and mammals that moved about the garden rooms.  Here are a couple dozen photos of visitors, and again trust me, there are dozens more that were taken during these warm months.

In past postings you will see photos of the American eagles that are here daily, pheasants, swallows, ducks, dragon flies and damsel files, red-tail fox, creek otters, and people too.  However, this posting would never end if all were included.   Here is a “short list” of those who have come to enjoy the Gardens at Waters East during the Summer of 2013.

Many I do not know.  Maybe you can name some of them.

Enjoy your walk with me around the gardens. 

 Beginning of a new day

August sunrise over Lake Michigan

 Honey Bee

 Grasshopper on Daylily

 Spider Lily

with guest

 Deer in the early summer garden

 Bumble Bee

 along the Lake Path

checking for more "visitors"

 Black Wasps

on Lovage blooms

 Fly

on Nanny Berry

 Two "bugs" checking each other out

Robin

on 19th century ship ribs

 a worm

on Rudbeckia bloom

 Purple Coneflower with "visitor"

 Enjoying an Aster

 Swallowtail Butterfly

 Ants

on Cushion Spurge bloom

 Four inch long ?

 Spider

on Siberian Iris

 Splish Splash Geranium and "visitor"

 Sea Holly with wasp

 Cup Plant with "visitor"

 Swallowtail Butterfly

 Ghost Spider having lunch

Fly

on False Sunflower

 Gulls

on their daily flight

over the Gardens at Waters East

 Coreopsis and visiting "bug"

 Two Coneflowers

Two "visitors"

 "I'm watching you - watching me."

 Daffodil with spider

 along the Middle Walk Path

looking for more "visitors"

 Marguerite Daisy

with visiting "mini" bee

 Spider on daisy

 Tulip Tarda with "visitors"

view down Lake Path

looking for more "visitors"

Baby Rabbit

 

 Checking for "goodies"

 great complimentary design with the lily

 Queen Anne Lace and "visitor"

 Woodchuck

having lunch on the Asian Patio

 love the pink stripe on this one

 moving along the path toward the Formal Garden

 Checkout who is hiding in-wait (on the left side of the daisy)

for this "visitor".

 Mourning Dove

flying over - - enjoying the colors

 Wood Thrush

flowers flowers everywhere

all to the "visitors" delight

sunset in the West reflecting off clouds

looking East over Lake Michigan

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:

www.gardensatwaterseast@Yahoo.com