Tuesday, January 16, 2007
The Moor Garden
Every garden, of course, changes constantly during the year and each phase can be interesting, if not captivating. Myself, I'm not a big fan of today's phase, with 4 inches of new snow on the ground and a temperature predicted to top out in the teens; shuffling along the garden paths looking at ice crystal patterns on tree trunks to see if they look like animals or former President's faces has never been my thing. Give me very early spring, when the early lepidote rhododendrons and magnolias are just opening up, before the leaves on the trees and shrubs really get going. This is a brief time; perhaps a week long, usually in early April... the ground is still pretty bare, dark and cold; the sun is still fairly low in the sky, so it slants into our valley, with the air being misty and cool. With few leaves out on the trees, you can see all across the garden, where the bright, glowing flowers of the magnolias and rhododendrons, all in whites, mauves, and cerise pink, stand out dramatically, and draw you to them. It's as if you are walking across a damp, cool moor in England. A few days later, with a couple of warming days, the whole garden explodes in the lushness of spring, and these early, bright flowers are tempered by many different shades of green foliage. 
// posted by IBOY @ 7:53 AM 
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