Dog Days

Here in Peterborough this has been the week for heat and humidity. I commuted the sentences of  the crabgrass... at least for another week. Still I did venture out an hour yesterday during an unusually pleasant morning to cut back the perennial flowers that are past. What a difference, you can actually see the white phlox.

Now while waiting for the afternoon thunderstorm, I thought that I would post some new photos of one of my projects from my summer design course. This is a design of a public space from my imagination. I chose to make a model of a portion of a larger woodland garden. There is a path, a few different sized gathering places, and opportunities for views of the pond and what lies beyond. It is a natural style garden, but I would call it "hyper" natural; kind of like Spiderman. It contains many groupings of flowering trees and shrubs, some of which would not be found together in a New England woods unless they were planted.

I had a lot of fun searching through my garden for the different shapes and textures that I used to make the model. Among the plants are varieties of sedum, lilacs, thrift blossoms, dried lambs ear blossoms, dried parsley, spruce, heather, and some purple and white things from Michaels. They represent oaks, maples, birches, dogwoods, redbuds, viburnums, azaleas, hemlock and others unnamed. I hope you enjoy the pictures. Click the link below for a slideshow.

https://picasaweb.google.com/116823766269242621801/Design2Model#slideshow/5775264296238001794