Thank you, commentor Math Guy:
A few photos from the Atlanta botanical gardens, taken the past June. Excuse the picture quality: they were taken on a meh phone camera by a meh photographer.
There were a number of installations inspired by Alice in Wonderland.
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Lots of yard cleanup going on right now, I’m guessing — hurricane recovery for some, ordinary winterizing for many of us…
What’s going on in your garden(s), this weekend?
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone 😊 😊 😊
eclare
@rikyrah:
Good morning!
Baud
@rikyrah:
@eclare:
Good morning.
Liminal Owl
Good morning!
Love the pictures, especially Grinch (?) and chessboard.
Mousebumples
Good morning! Thanks for the photos, Math Guy. I haven’t been to Atlanta in years (~2008 ish?), and this looks like a new place to explore the next time in that area.
stinger
Love them all! — except for the one with the Donald Trump mouth. Whyyyyy???
TerryC
Good morning. I am about to plant a couple of dwarf Alberta peaches and a couple of Cornellian cherries today, plus some baby catalpas and redbuds. I will put them on the fairway for my Red disc golf course hole 3.
Two weeks ago I hosted the Michigan Nut and Fruit Growers Association on my Bratsholme Farm/arboretum/disc golf courses. We set up the tent and tables and chairs on that fairway.
I was able to tell the crowd that on this one 230′ fairway (out of 36 fairways that run from 80′-830′) there was at least one specimen each of the following: American elm, slippery elm, sugar, maple, thornless blackberry, black raspberry, black walnut, white mulberry, red mulberry, hazelnut, redbud, green ash, white ash, buartnut, heart nut, red oak, paw paw, pecan, native plum, bald cypress, Ohio buckeye, catalpa, Kentucky coffee tree, native persimmon, box elder, larch, a variety of apples, sycamore, bur oak, red buckeye, corkscrew, willow, lilac, basswood, red cedar, and more.
Been planting baby trees in formerly farmed fields for 10 years now, more than 17,000 in the ground!
pieceofpeace
Love the clever, whimsical parts of this park! Chess board is amazing….
Trivia Man
@TerryC: terra-forming FTW
awesome project, great place for trees.
stinger
@TerryC: You are wonderful!
Betty
@TerryC: That’s amazing. Thank you.
xjmuellerlurks
This topiary is so cool. We got to see something similar in Montreal in 2013 at the botanical garden. It was nature themed and had figures from small to large. There was even a mother goddess figure that was really quite large. The talent and craftsmanship displayed is amazing. If you ever have the chance to visit one of these, go!
satby
Looks like a fun botanical garden to visit, thanks Math Guy!
@TerryC: Outstanding!!
I’m in Westmont, IL following a family reunionish party for my nieces, twins who turned 30 this week. I would prefer to be on the road home, but I still have a brunch to go to with my sister and a cousin.
Just got the sweetest picture of newly adopted tripod kitty Blondie, snuggled in his dad’s lap as Dad is gaming. Sent it to indycat, she’s the reason that sweet boy is alive to bring happiness for many, many more years.
Math Guy
Thank you, Anne Laurie, for posting these. I should have said a little more about the pictures. When we visit friends and family in Atlanta we try to visit the botanical gardens there. During our last visit they had a special exhibit; a topiary with scenes taken from “Alice in Wonderland.” What you see are Alice falling down the rabbit hole, the Cheshire Cat, a singing flower, the chess game, and the book Alice was reading. There were about a dozen installations in all and I casually snapped a few pictures on my phone as we wandered through the gardens. There were also stations where you could watch how some of the exhibits were assembled, from framing to painstakingly placing seedlings by hand.
Oops – I dropped the “h” in Math Guy and now I’m in moderation.
StringOnAStick
@TerryC: Where are you located? That’s such an impressive number and variety of trees!
Last week’s Gardeners World had a segment with a woman who said once you have 5 fruit trees, you have an orchard, and I ordered my 5th tree earlier that day, a Stella cherry. I prepared the irrigation loop (drip, on the dedicated fruit tree circuit of the irrigation system) two days ago so when the bare root trees comes early next spring, I’ll be ready.
I’m sharing an order with our backyard neighbours, one of whom is my designated garden husband. We’re getting the rotted out fence replaced in a couple of weeks but we’re having a gate added because we spend so much time either handing things to each other over the fence or walking the half block back and forth to each others houses.
Yesterday I took both backyard neighbours to the fabric store because my garden husband’s partner wants a real assassin’s cape for Halloween and I’m a serious seamstress; I told him is do it if he’s going to do one performance in it (he’s a high level professional oboe player); my husband just shakes his head. The two guys who live behind us are the best neighbours ever!
NutmegAgain
That Cheshire cat could frighten small children!
TerryC
@StringOnAStick: I am on 17.5 acres in the Southwest corner of the Ann Arbor school district on a dirt road only five miles from the central Umich campus as the crows do indeed fly, at least in the winter.