Thank you so much, to everyone who sent in photos of this year’s gardening triumphs. It’s always fun to see what other gardeners are up to. Sometimes it’s an entirely new garden and sometimes it’s just the delight in a plant that seeded and made itself welcome in the driveway. It’s pretty common for gardeners to say “You should have been here last week when the such and such was in bloom.”, so when someone joyfully shares their garden, it’s pretty contagious.
I've been accused of taking too many photos. I take a lot of photos when I visit gardens because I never know what I'm going to need for my writing. It's easy to get caught up taking close-up photos of individual plants. Some are just so exquisite you can't help yourself. But I try and remember to take a lot of wide shots, from different angles. It's amazing how many things you miss when you're used to seeing something everyday. Yet when you go back and look at the photos in a few months or years, something new will catch your eye and spark an idea. It's also the easiest way to keep a garden journal. So I'll probably keep right on taking too many photos.
I hope you enjoy viewing these photos as much as I have. Feel free to keep the photos coming. I’ll keep posting.
Photo: Courtesy of Ginger Seidel. Used with Permission.
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Photo: © Marie Iannotti (2008) licensed to About.com, Inc.You Have Yews?
Yews have taken a beating among so called “serious” gardeners. They’re mocked for being pruned into little meatballs or flat-topped tables. They’re belittled for being ubiquitous and they’re considered down right boring. I beg to disagree. I think yews make excellent landscape shrubs. I even prefer them pruned, rather than au natural. They give a tidy, orderly look to a foundation planting or garden bed and some cohesiveness to the neighborhood. Prune them once a year and they remain attractive all season. They’re a glorious, shiny green all year. And they have cherry, bright red berries that persist into winter, until the birds feast on them. Speaking of birds, my yews are always home to at least one nest a season.