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There’s a small courtyard outside the Plant Science Building where I work at Cornell. It’s bordered on the north and west sides by four stories on stories of stone wall and ivy, to the east by a single story, and is open to the south. Below is a heated basement and nearby greenhouses radiate heat during winter. Talk about microclimates. Several woody plants there are at least a Zone or two outside their range.
I gaze at it from the Men’s room window a story above every time I dry my hands. This time of the year, it’s exploding with anemones that I can’t grow at home because of the deer.
I have no clue what this groundcover is that’s flowering there now, but it’s nice:
When your shake too much or fail to focus on your close-ups, you can always resort to PhotoShop filters.
Actually, the second unflitered wasn’t all that bad:
Craig,
That groundcover with the blue flowers may be dwarf plumbago, a.k.a. leadwort
http://www.paghat.com/plumbago.html
And hey, would you tell the folks who name plants to quit calling stuff —wort! It’s a big turn off.
The men’s room garden is lovely, especially the anemones.
Thanks for the ID Julie.
Pam, the men’s room is on the north wall. I assume the women have an equally spectacular view from the west wall. But I can’t vouch for that.
Hey Craig, I saw this first from the Women’s room on the 1st floor, actually slightly under the garden level, but never went to that side of the bldg to check it out. It would make a pretty cool picture from inside, but you wouldn’t be able to see the anemones. I’m bravely or stupidly diving into anemones (they should arrive tomorrow!), and hope this won’t be the trigger that finally alerts the deer to our yard. We’ve been lucky so far…