2005 Gardens

If you cut the blossoms off
your garlic and put them
in a container w/o water
they go through various
beautiful stages for over a
month.

 
New Feng Shui Garden gate created
by 1) friend Elaine Ferry
rescuing battered bamboo screen from trash;
2)  neighbor Andy Shearer
re-designing the parts;
3)  need created by deer which smashed through previous gate in the winter
of 2004-'05 to reach birdseed.

The right handed side of the Big Fragrant Garden entrance path with
much weeded thyme.  The sundial tells the time in the thyme!

On the left:  stools & tables created from walnut
& elm trees killed by
lightening. 
On the right:  new path to
bridge over creek; Feng
Shui Garden left rear;
greenhouse on extreme left. 

Close Up of New Path made from stones gathered
at La Paix.  

In the evening at La Paix's entrance to the
Big Fragrant Garden.  July 23, 2005.

View looking west at
new seats & tables under
Pavilions in Big Fragrant
Garden - seats & tables
made from walnut & elm
trees taken down after
being struck by lightening.

Big Fragrant Garden - looking
to north pavilion with beautiful
sumac tree on left background

The Rhododendron were absolutely
gorgeous this Spring.

Close up of garlic flowers shown earlier.

We harvested golden chanterelles
from La Paix's woods on 7-21-2005.

New back gate of Feng Shui
Garden.  This is the Relationship corner with red, pink & white flowers.

Middle path of Feng Shui garden
showing oregano overflowing path.
New garden signs are made from re-cycled
picket fence with top to keep off sun & rain.

Left side of entrance to Big Fragrant Garden showing newly found hand cut stone trough (buried in dirt).  Thyme and wild marjoram in garden.

The beautiful bathtub in the Big Fragrant Garden.  Mid garden path going
west to east is flanked by containers of sweet marjoram, Goodwin
Creek Gray lavender, Rosemary and Grosso Lavender.

The new seats and tables adorning
the pavilions in the Big Fragrant Garden.
Top of Seats & Tables are of recycled walnut.  Legs are of recycled elm.  Both trees were hit by lightening in 2004 and were dead, so had to be taken down to insure they wouldn't fall and hurt someone.

Poppies bloom in the late Spring