Ink & Penstemon
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The Milky Way rises over Long’s Peak (14,259 feet) as seen from 9,600 feet up Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park.
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Sagano Bamboo Forest, Japan
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Amazing Trout Creek Climbing Area in BLM-Oregon.
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Nature inspiration in red
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Opuntia ellisiana / Graphic Ansel I
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I’ve always wanted to visit Dan Hinckley’s garden Windcliff. Thanks to The Next Generation Gardener, a video-toting plant geek, you and I can. If you click on the link, it will take you to his additional blog post.
I remember reading Hinckley saying the inspiration for this garden was the garden created in the movie Enchanted April; overlooking the sea, where a number of people could be throughout the garden, yet one could still feel a sense of solitude.
It’s a sequence of vids, but if you want the meat of the tour, skip to Garden tour 2–3. Be warned, you will miss the most metallic blue gunnera I’ve ever seen, though; here they are in order after the first, which I’ve posted:
2. Windcliff entry 2
3. Windcliff Garden tour 1
4. Windcliff Garden tour 2
5. Windcliff Garden tour 3
Now I really want to go.
Photos from my visit to Red Butte Garden last week. The flowers are beautiful, but I was more struck by the strong form of plants like evergreens, the “bones” of the garden, and its sense of place up against the red rock of the foothills, which are currently as green as they will get all year.
