BLOG SHOTS #55

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

 Seagulls along the East Gardens

 Inula Ensifolia - swordleaf

 Sculpture - Portholes from Straits of Mackinaw

 Coneflowers

 Path to Formal Garden

 dew on Black Lace Sambucus

 Russian Sage, Phlox, and False Sunflower

 Peony

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

Seasonal Contrast in the Garden #10

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.  Here are photos of the old stone fountainhead. 

Enjoy

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.

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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Quote 4 U - The Gardener - Emerson

Thoughts to celebrate the deeply rooted appreciation, love, and joy you find in gardening and the nature that cradles all of us.

Every now and then, this Blog will post a quote that speaks to all of us who share a deep respect and love of nature and gardening.  Along with the meditative quote, Gardens at Waters East will share a few never before seen pictures from its photo files.  Here then is today’s posting to feed your mind, spirit, and delight your eyes.

Sunrise - Gardens at Waters East

January 5th

Quote

"Each moment of the year has its own beauty,

a picture which was never before and shall never be seen again".

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

THE TREE #1 - beginnings

The tree that has been chosen for this series is a very special tree here in the Gardens at Waters East.  Very special indeed.  It may be a common tree throughout much of North America, but it is a special tree here in these gardens located along the shores of Lake Michigan.

Twelve years ago this month  (March 6, 2002) a small beanlike seed from the Honey Locust – Gleditsia triacanthos, was planted in a pot in the sunroom of the home on this property.  In June of that year it was moved outside into the gardens.  From that small seed, there now stands a tree more than 20 feet tall.  It has matured.  In fact, this past summer was the first time it produced seedpods.  I feel like a proud papa!  I have watched this tree grow from that small seed a dozen years ago, into a good size tree that now protects and shades the Hosta Garden, one of thirteen garden rooms in the gardens here along the shore.  I often sit in the shade myself at the edge of another garden room, the Bog Garden sotme twenty feet away taking in the sights and smells of the many flowers growing where the Locus lives.  The small seed planted years ago has now become an adult.

Over the coming months I hope you can enjoy and admire what my “baby” has become.  From a small seed of years ago to the structural element that now dominates the southern edge of the Gardens at Waters East.  It stands tall and proud, a great addition to the gardens.  I will be posting monthly the life of this tree and the friends that gather around it, and the friends that call it home today.

The photos posted today all were taken in the last twenty-four hours.  This was done to give an immediate base to all photos that will be posted monthly over the present year of 2014.  This is the first in a series titled - - The Tree, which will follow the life of my special tree!

If you wish to look at other blogs from around the world which are doing similar monthly tree postings.  click on:   http://looseandleafy.blogspot.co.uk/

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.

Shadows in the Snow

How interesting, shadows.

A duplicate of the original, but really not.

There this moment but block out the light, and it is not.

Shadows, how interesting.

Here are a dozen photos of plants and more from the Gardens at Waters East.  The sun has created objects yet not created;  duplicated yet not duplicated.  Interesting.

Enjoy a moment or two of reflection while reflecting.

 Coneflowers

 Footprints

 Footprints after a windy day

 Fence Shadow

 Mugo Pine

Lake Michigan in the background

 Asian Patio Garden

drifts of snow

 Bench & Siberian Iris

 Shadow from Circle Sculpture

 Magnolia

casting shadows

 Long shadow line of

Sculpture - "Fire and Earth"

 Looking toward the Formal Garden

 Shadows against the Sun

 Zen Garden

footprints on a snow mound

 Formal Garden

Lake Michigan in the 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.

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

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.

BLOG SHOTS #54

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

 StoneWater Beach

private beach

Gardens at Waters East

 Clematis - Red

 Happy Face Pot

 Hydrangea

Many of the Day Lilies

Hybridized in the Gardens at Waters East

 Purple Coneflower - with "friend"

 "Wind Ribbons"

along the lake bluff

 Rudbeckia in the Formal Garden

Middle Walk - mix of flowers

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