[Addition 7-17-09: This also qualifies as Blackswamp_Girl's Foliage Friday entry.]
A cabbage leaf:
Another cabbage leaf:
Billions and billions of droplets on grass:
Radishes:
And one from the flower bed, a Lady's Mantle:
Exciting Times
15 years ago
8 comments:
Beautiful pics!!! I love pictures with water!! Lovely work!! Sarah
Thank you, Sarah. And thanks for stoppping by. The dew that morning was so beautiful and it was clinging to everything. I wonder why all the droplets migrate to the edges of the leaves?
Hello Coneflower,
Thought I'd drop by and say hello! The dew pics are lovely, especially the Lady's Mantle. Amazing how the drops cling to every scallop of the leaf edge.
I see you have been doing some nice work.
Hi Derrick. Thanks for stopping by. I love following your Musings and the history. And I've linked onto a couple of your links for gardens. You have interesting friends. See you again soon, I hope. I'm about ready to put up an update on the gardens.
Lovely photos! I really like the unusual perspective in the first photo, and in the shot of the dewy grass.
Scrolling through, I can't help but notice that you have a knack for making a garden feel "full" (like that new raised bed) from the beginning... can't wait to see where this new garden ends up in another year or two!
Hi Kim. Thanks for stopping by and thanks for your kind comment.
In the raised bed "style" you can plant in a much more concentrated fashion. There are no foot paths. In fact, you don't step into the bed at all. Thus the soil is not compacted and is always east to work in, pull weeds, etc. It's not an original idea....I read "Square Foot Gardening" by Mel Bartholomew. But I couldn't see the point of actually laying out 1' squares within the bed to plant in.
Next year I will add compost and some more soil and just replant. There is no tilling necessary. I didn't have to till or double dig to get started either.
I just took some new photos today so I'll be posting updates very soon.
My front perennial beds are still baby beds and will fill in each year as you know. But when I see beautiful established beds like yours, I can hardly wait for mine to grow and fill in also.
Lovely dew photos! I have always wanted to be able to catch a reflection in a dew drop. I remember a photo in either Country or Birds and Blooms magazine years ago with a flower reflected in several dew drops, it was beautiful, but I have never been able to do that.
Hi Iowa Gardening Woman. Thanks for stopping by. The dew was especially heavy that morning and I couldn't resist. Boy! To catch a reflection in a dew drop, you'd need quite a good macro lens. I've seen them in water drops.
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