Asters here and Asters there!
The Gardens at Waters East has acres and acres of asters. Each year more appear in the fields continuing to bring more Autumn colors year after years. Please do enjoy the views this season of the year offers here at the lake.
ENJOY
Me, me, me. Look at me. No, look at me. Better yet, skip all those and look at me! Walking through the Gardens at Waters East, one almost hears this constant refrain. Every plant wants attention. Every bloom is screaming – “I’m so beautiful just look at me!” In many cases they are right. Take a look at some of the beauties basking in the sun and calling to be the center of your attention. Checkout the detail of some of the garden residents.
All of these “portraits” were taken here in the gardens. Self-centered though they may be, the flowers do make you stop and stare. They seem to be doing “their thing” just for you. So why not indulge them for a few moments while walking the paths.
Posted today is a close-up and then a more general view of the plant, putting each flower into a context.
Here then are photos for this posting
pause a moment - - - really slow down and pause a moment
see the detail
even if you only pick one or two of the photos - pause a moment
Enjoy
False Sunflower
Heliopsis
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.
Enough of the photos from the most recent posting when it was cold this winter. Let. us enjoy a few of the summer warm weather flowers! Can not wait!!!!!
moments in the garden - - enjoy
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.
Sunrises coldest days
There are days that are really COLD even here at the lake which is usually warmer than inland. But a few of the last days of December were so cold! You can almost feel the cold as you look at the photos here – see the steam coming up off the water forming into clouds. That is a sure sign that it is very cold. Each of these days the temperature started each morning at -17C to -21C and never got much warmer during the rest of the day.
I thought that was it for the coldest part of our winter, then I woke up this morning at, it was 3F (-16.11 C ) and the weather station said it would be below 0 F (-17.78 C )for a few days this week. It is cold and this morning the sunrise looks like it did in December!!! I’ll have to post a few photos of the weather I like in a couple of day – flowers and sunshine!!!
Bundle up!
It is so very very cold here at the Gardens at Waters East.
Green Bay Botanical Garden
This is a wonderful place to visit, for sure more than once. There are a variety of programs both indoor and outdoor summer though winter offered during the year. The gardens consist of 47 acres with more than 85,000 plants.
When visiting you will find a great selection of everyone’s favorites – roses - and so much more. There are many walkways and secluded rest areas, sculptures, and “follies”. It is really a nice place and such an asset for a smaller city. It is 100% community supported making it a place of pride for the whole community.
Enjoy this small sampling of the gardens.
There is so much more to experience when you get the chance for a visit.
Sculpture of a Praying Mantis
