I did these over the weekend — before the frost. Thanks to Carol at May Dreams Garden for hosting, as usual.
Colchicums.
Supersized.
Last of the tropicals.
Bloom day scans
Category: Art
Garden art, PhotoShopped images, etc.
Miscellany
In case you missed it this week, Zonker and Zipper explore the erotica that is bulb catalogs. You can view Start with Monday’s strip and work you’re way through the week by clicking on the next tab.
Email from UPS says my bulb order arrives Tuesday.
While shooting pix the other day I heard the tell-tale squawks of crows harassing a hawk, then they flew right overhead.
Colchicums at Billie Jean Isbell’s garden. Billie Jean hosted our first fall 2009 program of the Adirondack Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society. Love her garden.
On Billie Jean’s barn, ‘Flying fish’ sculpture that looks to be fashioned from a piece of warped slapwood.
Living, Growing Architecture – Great post over at Dark Roasted Blend, full of root and vine bridges, reed construction, espalier, arborisculpture and more.
Bloom day scans
I usually think of September as a time of waning color, but there’s still lots out there. Sure, it’s here and there and you have to look for it. And it’s dwarfed by the goldenrod peaking, and will continue to be dwarfed as the trees start to change. But it’s there …
Click on images for larger view. Hat tip to Carol at May Dreams Garden for hosting this monthly gathering.
Echinacea and I believe a Helinium of unknown origin.
Lots of colors …
One of my favorite leaves (Plume poppy) along with some whites. Better in person.
Details from the first scan …
How to. (It’s easy. Give it a try.)
100 self portraits …
… in 100 days. That’s what (often garden) blogger Ina at Unbound confine did. (Hat tip to eschaton.)
Powerful.
Students build sod sofa at Cornell Plantations (time-lapse video)
Update [9/29/09]: Cornell Chronicle article.
Cross posted from Cornell Horticulture blog. I used the same time-lapse technique that I used in this post.
Sod sofa in 60 seconds from Cornell Horticulture on Vimeo.
Marcia Eames-Sheavly’s Art of Horticulture class — with the assistance of turf specialist Frank Rossi and Cornell Plantations staff — spent the afternoon of September 8 creating a sod sofa in the pond area of the F.R. Newman Arboretum.
Students raked and shoveled to shape the sofa in a slope near the pond’s edge. Then under Frank’s tutelage put the sod in place. In 2007 and 2008, the class built sod sculptures at Bluegrass Lane Turf and Landscape Research Facility adjacent to the Robert Trent Jones Golf Course.
