Take a look at just one plant here at the Gardens at Waters East, the Crocus. Looking in close, lots of interesting detail on this photo taken in May.
NICE
Gardening and Landscaping on the shore of Lake Michigan in Zone 4 - Zone 5. The special circumstances, needs and assets, for lake area gardening. Blogs to cover ongoing gardening and plantings, developments and issues, special plants. This is a photo journal of gardening as a hobby, shared with those of like mind.
Take a look at just one plant here at the Gardens at Waters East, the Crocus. Looking in close, lots of interesting detail on this photo taken in May.
NICE
Tour of GAWE 5.10.22
On Tuesday this week May 10th. I took a “tour” of the Gardens at Waters East. As you will see – the flowers are well behind most of you my fellow Bloggers. Not even one tulip is bloom at this time!
The temperature on Tuesday was in the low 50s F, 12 C ! It is a lot cooler here on the shores of Lake Michigan. That is nice in the middle of summer when everyone else is “baking” in the Summer heat, and here the gardens live with “natural air conditioning”.
Enjoy the few blooms that exist this week.
Took a hike this weekend to check-out some of the Spring Ephemerals blooming these days. Nice to see things beginning to come “alive” once again and the season finally changing to Spring.
Do Enjoy
Then you will find out what they are.
The next three are Dutchman's Breeches
The Gardens at Waters East sits along the western shore of Lake Michigan. The name comes from the Ojibwe people --- mishi-gami meaning “great water”. The lake is one of the five Great Lakes in USA, 307 miles long and about 118 miles wide at the widest. The average depth is 279 feet with a maximum of 925 feet. It is 581 feet above sea level and is the result of the last Ice Age. It contains one Quadrillion gallons of water. It is so large that it would take about 400 billion gallons of water to raise the level by one inch.
Surface area is 31,200 square miles (82,000 square kilometers). Waves can reach as high as 20 feet. It is home to the largest freshwater sand dunes.
All photos posted today were taken at the Gardens at Waters East - except the next two. However if you look closely you might see the gardens on the West side of the lake.
The deepest part of Lake Michigan is about 15 miles north of the Gardens at Waters East. The water temperature at that deepest level is nearly a constant 39 degrees. It is the only Great Lake located completely in the USA.