Gardens at Waters East: August 2015

Monday, August 24, 2015

Seasonal Contrast in the Garden #18

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.

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.

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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

BLOG SHOTS # 72

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

Garlic Chive with ant

Balloon Flower

White Coneflower

Gottendorf Rose

Middle Walk

Lake Michigan in the background

Monarch Butterfly

Yucca - early morning

Sunrise in August

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:

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Friday, August 14, 2015

Clouds over the Gardens at Waters East #2

Part TWO

Here is a look at some of the many photos taken in the gardens of the clouds that pass overhead. Many times children sit back or lay on the ground and look up to “discover”: animals, people, aliens, etc. in the clouds. You might remember doing this in your own childhood. No doubt it stimulated and continues to stimulate creative and curiosity in the young and young-at-heart. Many have enjoyed the “adventure”. Here is your turn to spend a few moments “studying” the clouds that pass over the Gardens at Waters East. A small reminder of your lifelong love of nature.

September Sunrise

June Sunset - looking East !!

Enjoy looking up!

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

Saturday, August 8, 2015

THE TREE 2015 #7

This is the seventh in the series – The Tree – Scotch Pine

Basic information on this special tree was written in the February posting: when planted, where planted, why planted, plant information and special design and trim information, etc.

THE TREE

looking over the Daylily Field

Then five months ago, March, there were a number of photos posted on the bark of this Scotch Pine. As you saw in those pictures, the bark is interesting with all the texture and pealing that occurs up and down the trunk.

Delphinium in the Asian Garden with THE TREE

Subsequent postings have focused on the ongoing plants emerging from around the base of this chosen tree up to the present time.

Last month was a portrait of THE TREE itself taking photos (indeed and interesting visual perspective).

This month, August, will be a posting of some of the garden plants blooming at this week very near The Tree. Standing by The Tree – you can see all of this and more – so much more. Lots of color happening now round and about The Tree.

Daylily "Lipstick" #28

in front of THE TREE

False Sunflower & Friend

to the right of THE TREE

Coneflowers - just below THE TREE

Daylily #8 pale orange and pink

in front of THE TREE

THE TREE

standing tall

Succulent Pot

on bench in front of THE TREE

Shelf Cloud

from the storm about to hit the gardens

Hibiscus

in the Asian Patio with THE TREE

Gottendorf Rose

in the field in front of THE TREE

THE TREE

watching the clouds roll by

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

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Hybridized Day Lilies - 2015 #3

This past week has seen the day lilies here at the Gardens at Waters East – “strut their stuff”. For whatever the reason, this year the season has been good for day lilies and their blooms. Over the last eight years, Gardens at Waters East has hybridized more than four-hundred – never before seen on planet Earth – new and let it be said - awesome day lilies. It has been a project of love; keeping track of the “parents” and “grandparents” the generations of all the day lilies here in the gardens. Nice that the computer was invented – a great help!

There were way more photos taken during the last weeks than could reasonable be posted so this year’s daylily review will be limited to three posts of fifteen each. This will give a cross section of what has become a “hobby gone wild”.

Lower Daylily Field

Lake Michigan in the distance

The numbers associated with many of the photos, relates to a computer code developed to keep track of the ancestry of the plants. Many have names but the codes are used most often. You will see that this gardener has a special affection for reds, love that color in the garden.

Enjoy your walk in the daylily fields here at Gardens at Waters East.