Here's a pic of Fata Morgana taken June 25, 2006. I thought it was stunning last year, but I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder. All you folks that don't like your 1a Asiatics can send them to me, LOL!
Sorry it is kind of blurry, but I was just learning to use my new digi at the time.
Hi all I have been reading this thread and kinda got lost in the middle but it sure has made me think. I am not thinking of an individual flower but my yard/garden on a whole.
It isn't everyday I feel this way but some days I feel that it is my "life's breath". When things are hard or wearysome stepping out and and looking around just fills my soul and I can go back to whatever it was that seemed so heavy and burdensome with a smile and a feeling of peace. It is like trying to describe your favorite flower.........."whatever I am looking at at that moment"!!
Right now a dandelion would give me a thrill. It has been over a week with well below freezing temps and at leasts another week to go but we were spoiled by an easy first half of winter.
What a wonderful way to wait for spring but here on DG.
Joy
LOL! Beaker, I have "the swingset bed" -- kids are in college now, and also the "azalea bed" Azalea was moved ages ago. Also anothe rnamed for the pattern of the stppeing stones which have been pulled up and rearranged. I am confusing myself!
Joyous, I know exactly what you mean! I'm sowing some seeds & going to Wal-Mart to find some of their blooming plants to put on the windowsill. A cheap $3.00!
Suzy
Joy, I like that, "My Life's Breath". Most days I would say that about my family ... but there are those days when I see the beauty of nature, I hold that breath, then let it out with a sigh.
Beaker and Suzy, you 2 are too funny!
Beaker, I've got a name for a garden if you have a lot of 'blue' in it.
The Blues Brothers Garden ... or Jake and Elwoods Garden. Wadya think?
toofew
I like Elwood.....
How about Sherlock for a red bed. Not sure I remember the name correctly, but something like "the League of Red-Headed Gentlemen" or something similar.
Unfortunately, I don't plan any of my beds around colors. Mine are more contrasting heights and/or textures and complementary colors. Whatever looks good together.
All of mine have names, but most are pretty unimaginative. My favorite name, but most problematic garden, is my "Elm St. Garden . . . as in Nightmare On" . . . I did a thread on it once and have moaned and groaned about it continuously. Every once in awhile I work on it, but get so darn discouraged that I never finish. I am going to try to find a high school or college kid to do some major digging for me . . . I really have to realize that on occasion I need HELP!!!
Murmur, you are too funny!
I have one of those types of garden also ... but I call it 'the roadside garden'. I need a better name like your 'elm st'. LOL
Here it is in the spring of last year ... in its 2nd year. It really didn't look much better by the end of the summer. Except the stella's bloomed half heartedly and I managed to get a few of the 'tall' rudbeckias to grow there, except they only got to about 18 inches in height.
This area has terrible soil that I don't amend, lots of salt in the winter, and kids stepping and riding their bikes over it. And if it snows alot, this is the area the snowplow puts all the snow, it also scrapes up some of the dirt on the edge ... that is why it is a garden, I could never get grass to grow here reliably. LOL
Someone gave me an iceplant and obediant plant at the end of the summer and I stuck them in there. I hope something really takes hold!!!
hehehehehe - that's nothin', Toofew - take a look at this . . .
Those clumps of grass might just as well be in concrete - truly a nightmare!!!!! When I first created this garden it was lovely - it was a "White Garden," and literally shone at night. But the summer my mom broke her hip it got away from me, and after that I found every excuse in the book to avoid working on it!! Now it is mostly blackberry vines (with trunks like trees and roots that go to the other side of the earth), grass, other weeds, etc. Sigh . . . I haven't given up, though!!!!!!
And this . . . this is when I worked on it this summer a bit, but again let it escape me! And I learned never to buy cheap steer manure as it gives me a whole new set of itty bitty weeds!!!
Yikes! Looks like the wrong things have 'taken off' in that garden.
Yup. And if only I hadn't let it intimidate me at the beginning of the problem, it wouldn't have gotten like this. Ahhhh - isn't life just full of "if only's???"
Ah, but i've let my less conspicuous garden spaces get far worse than what you've illustrated here, Murmur. It's actually a relief to know i'm not the only one for whom certain areas can get out of hand. My worst experience involved this horrible thorned vine that wood sink roots in and spread wherever the least little part of it touched the earth. What a nightmare it was to clear. This was in the former house up North ... ahhh .... memories .... :)
Estreya, sounds like a darn good reason to move to a new location!!! My nightmare started out with the infamous sorrel weed (sheep sorrel?) which spreads by any manner it chooses. But that was nothing compared to the blackberry vines springing up from underneath the rhodies and crawling every which way into my flower beds (worse in Elm St. than any of the others). Not to mention those dastardly grasses!!!! Than the little chickweed type stuff that came with the manure (supposedly sterilized stuff). Boo hiss.
Adjective--brilliant
was the season for 'cheerful'
an exuberant fall
understated charm
Dale, GREAT additions to our new dictionary!! Sometime soon I will compile everything as a list and share . . . should be a good one!
Has "Enchanting" been used yet?
"other-worldly" or downright "alien"...
Sublime?
Vibrant!!!
We have over 100 adjectives!!! I have them in a three-columned word document, but when I copied and pasted, it showed up as one very long list here! And I tried to get it by browsing, but "browsing" only recognizes jpg, etc. So here you go, and I am absolutely crazy about this list!!
Airy
alien
alluring
amazing
appealing
arresting
attention grabbing
bashful
beau parfait
beautiful
beefy
bella
bellissima
bewitching
bold
brash
breathtaking
brilliant
captivating
cheerful
choice
classic
compelling
conservative
cool
coquettish
cottagey
crazy
dainty
dangerous
demure
demure
dilettevole, incantevole
dynamite
earthy
elegant
enchanting
enthralling
exuberant
eyepopping
far out
festive
flamboyant
friendly
frilly
frothy
frou-frou
gorgeous
grandiose
groovy
heavenly
hot
hypnotic
imposing
inspiring
intricate
like crazy
lilting
logical
lovely
luminous
magical
magnificent
mesmerizing
neato
optimistic
other worldly
outta sight
prim
quaint
rad
razz my berries
reserved
reticent
riotous
satiny
scintillating
sensual
sexy
shimmery
shy
silky
sleek
spellbinding
spiky
spritely
stately
sturdy
sublime
subtle
sumptuous
the bee's knees
the cat's meow
the cat's pajamas
the shizzle
tropical
understated charm
velvety
vermonty
vibrant
vivid
voluminous
vulgar
(edited to add "crazy")
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Mur, you are too funny to create the list! thanks
Does someone have a good picture for "Ethereal"?
(Kinda going backwards, I know...)
Nuts. Have to adjust the list - that's a great word . . . I don't have a picture that I can think of, but SOMEONE must!!!
Surely someone has a pic of a moon flower, dew clinging in the misty morning!
"Ethereal"?
OOH, lovely! "Ethereal" made me think of the Georgia saltmarsh early in the morning, especially when the sea lavender is adding a purple haze to the high marsh... your photo captures a similar mood!
Your photo of Thai Basil is wonderful, too. Those big heads of blooms make it one of my favorite ornamentals -- plus, the leaves are great in stir fry!
Dale, that's perfect!!!!
Just read your thread such creative people.'' Ethereal''
I like the word Ethereal
Ethereal can mean so many things, best adjective yet
I like the word, too - but I like all these photos even more! Absolutely gorgeous (and ethereal!). Gardengus & Dale, where were your photos taken?
Dale, that last one could almost make me cry. Not sure why.
I'm embarrassed to say,it is a photo at some rest stop in Florida. I guess beauty can show up anywhere.
It matters not where we find the beauty, that's for sure!
