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Photo of the Day Tuesday, Oct 29 2013
gardening and Landscapes and Modern Photos gardening, landscapes, photography 16:04
October Nasturiums Friday, Oct 18 2013
gardening and Modern Photos gardening, photography 13:19
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Mega Gardening Sunday, Oct 13 2013
gardening and Landscapes and Modern Photos gardening, hemlocks, woodbine 19:20
We have an over-sized tree: namely a lone hemlock towering about seventy feet over the little summer kitchen, Minnietrost (the smaller of the two cottages), and even over the south end. It is beloved of the birds, in the winter because it is a good roosting spot; but in the summer because of the Woodbine (Virginia Creeper) which is now managed to get well over halfway up it. For much of the summer it blends in (though when it flowers, the hum of the bees is audible from the ground) but in fall…. We can’t take any credit for the impressive display, a happy accident.*
From below
From two high stories up, the little summer kitchen is visible below. The south end is about thirty-five/forty feet tall.
*The woodbine, perhaps more than anything, is why taking it down isn’t really something I want to do.
Fall Sunset Saturday, Oct 12 2013
Esperanza and Landscapes and Modern Photos photography 18:09
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Hydrangea and Lilac, Fall Thursday, Oct 10 2013
gardening and Modern Photos gardening, hydrangea, lilac 21:51
Obligatory photo Tuesday, Oct 1 2013
Landscapes and Modern Photos connecticut, photography 21:52
of the West Meadow on the second cutting. Actually taken a week ago, the trees have really started to turn now.
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Sunset Wednesday, Sep 25 2013
Esperanza and Modern Photos photography 10:37
Fall always produces some rather nice ones around here….
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Photo of the day Sunday, Sep 22 2013
gardening and Modern Photos clematis, gardening, photograpy 12:01
Taken much earlier this year, clematis ‘Mayleen’ of the Montana group. A very happy plant, only in its first full year, it has sprawled over about 20 feet. This photo is taken from underneath it.
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More Wood aster Tuesday, Sep 17 2013
gardening and Modern Photos asters, gardening, native plants 13:53
Seeing as I natter on about it so….
Here is one patch of it: this is the most recently created one, we simply stopped mowing the stretch between the Douglas Spruce and the Copper Beech because it was all moss. One year later, this is the result.* Wood aster is a takeover specialist.
*For scale, it is an easy 15 meters between the two trees.
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September Flowers Tuesday, Sep 10 2013
gardening and Modern Photos gardening, photography 17:40
September probably has the highest flower count here: if you were to count each individual aster, lobelia, etc.? Hundreds of thousands easily. Spring and fall are the two growing seasons for New England, summer is survival against the heat and winter is survival against the cold.
The white wood aster, by the way, (which is in this photo) actually is fragrant: a very subtle floral scent on a good dry day…at least when one is standing in a patch several hundred feet square!
Acair Fearann 