August 24 , 2017
Tranquil Designs from Austin to Buffalo
The best thing about visiting gardens on tour is to look up to someone else ’s severe work without sweating it out ourselves!Taping and redaction gardens for CTG is sincerely yours backbreaking oeuvre , so I make love simply relaxing into breathing in fashion on a late sojourn to Buffalo for theGWA : The Association for Garden Communicators . I did n’t even lug a clipboard or make any note – what a departure for me!I’d love to call this tranquil , officially personable garden my own . Not so long ago , the most plebeian garden “ water feature ” was an oscillating sprinkler on summer nights . Now , gardeners craft effective , ingenious fountain to comfort us and hydrate wildlife . In Buffalo , Jim Charlier’scolorful fish spouts a gentle falls melodic phrase . In Austin , CTG - featured Lori Daulturned this John Lamos concrete shell sculpture into a little wildlife drinking fountain . Elayne Lansford designed a Zen moment for her and wildlife , another CTG garden on tour of duty . On the ground of theBuffalo History Museum , the Japanese Peace Garden traverses Delaware Park ’s Mirror Lake , designed by Frederick Law Omsted . Like Austin ’s in - Ithiel Town Lady Bird Lake , it ’s a residential district respite that bridge over the casual hustle and hustle . The stone path on a sweet serene trail mimics flowing H2O . Garden spreader and writerCharlie Nardozzitakes a break from our whirlwind locomotion . In Austin , Syd Teague created a similar outcome as a span over a water - controlling dry creek . Watch her CTG tour . Here ’s another Buffalo nurseryman who created serene depth with plants that develop well there and with rocks that produce anywhere . Skull garden art transcends location!In Lorena , Texas , Elizabeth DeMaria corral her cove against pastureland : come up this fall on CTG.What ’s a garden without a patio even if we ca n’t sit still for long ? Jim Charlier mirrors our desire to just relax now and then . Here ’s one that I suspect used to be lawn . Its charmed - up style enriches the narrow destiny ’s scope and our sensorial perceptions . In San Antonio , this rendering of a lawn - to - hold up patio was one thatCTG shoot the breeze . An Austin court makeover brings wildlife mightily up near to toast and swallow . come up October 21 on our trailer of theGarden Conservancy ’s Austin Open Days tour . October 28 , we visit a gardener who restored land to nurture wildlife renewal while carving out advantage power point to see the all . And hey , have ’s remember : tranquillity comes even in small packages!Thanks for intercept by ! See you next week , Linda
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