Memories of what has been – and will be again!

It is still the dead of winter though it has been a rather warm winter in this area.  I miss all the many blooms that happen here in the Spring, Summer, and Autumn.  With that in mind, I took a “memory walk” around the gardens this week while recalling the plants that have been here, and will be retuning again this year.

Stonewater Beach at the gardens.

One of many visitors to the gardens.

Believe it or not, there are hundreds of cultivars in these gardens.  I was amazed when I sat down with my “log of plantings” here and discovered that there are hundreds and hundreds of different cultivars.

 

Concolor Fir and Coneflower

Cecropia Moth

 

My pride and joy are the more than 1000 daylilies I have hybridized that exist nowhere else on Earth except here in the Gardens At Waters East, except for the three home in Guatemala and the four homes in the USA with which I have shared some of the plants.  They are pretty special and unique.

 

Since this year is a leap year and we all get an extra day - - Thursday the 29^th of February, I thought we could view a few extra plants from the gardens. 

 

Sunrise over Lake Michigan

Enjoy a few more,  “snapshot” of flowers here.

 

Sunset looking EAST over the lake - reflection/

Who is living in my birdhouse?  When. 

 

 

One Singular Sensation

 One  Singular  Sensation

Special never before seen photo from

Gardens at Waters East

 

If you enjoy looking at garden photos without many words, here is your chance!!!

 

 Purple Coneflower

 

Before the Snow

Early Winter – before the Snow

 

Here are twenty-five (25)  close-up photos of a few plants in the Gardens at Waters East taken just days before any snow had fallen. In another posting, once it snows, I will take a few more photos, showing close-ups of the snow on some of the same plants. 

Whitespire Birch

 

Enjoy the details in the plants, amazing even after the blooms have gone.

 

Whitespire Birch 

Sedum Autumn Joy

Milkweed

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Magnolia bud

Aster

Siberian Iris

Columbine

Siberian Iris

Lichen

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Goldenrod

Queen Anne

White Aster

Hydrangea

Baptisia Australis 

Cone Flower 

Allium

Tithonia

A. Goyette Fern

Cone Flower

Euonymus

Sedum - Autumn Joy

 

Barbary - Golden Nugget

 

 

 

Video at Gardens at Waters East

 

Here is a video taken this morning January 14th. looking at Lake Michigan from the Gardens at Waters East.  It is really a cold morning - 5 F, and windy.

BLOG SHOTS # 160

 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.  Let's start 2024 by remembering and celebrating a few of the garden gems from this past season. There are hundreds more - but this is enough!

 

moments in the garden - - enjoy

 

 

Baby bunny in a flower pot

Hybridized Daylily #

Blade

Magnolia

Always has a smile when I walk by.

Hybridized Daylily # letter A

Early Crocus

 

Daisy

 

 

 

 

Reference Note:  For a complete list of the ten (10) Principles of Design plus the special “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.