The garden has three small, circular ponds. This is number 2
I could be wrong, but it seems to me the gardeners have been thinning the "walls" between the garden's rooms in recent years. In general, I think the more separate the rooms the better. On the other hand, it's nice to see two water features in the same view.
It seems like they've been framing the view more lately too. It's a million dollar view, for sure.
The Blake is a teaching garden for UC Berkeley's Landscape Architecture program. You find lots of interesting experiments here. I love this new flue.
Water drains from the upper terraces via an ancient rusted pipe. It looks like someone shattered it with a shovel. Whoops?
You know what they say--if you can't hide it, decorate it. Here's a flue movie.
Today I also realized how much I like the back stairs.
Are they slightly curved, or is it just an illusion created by the planting? Well, all stairs should have a slight curve, or the illusion of a slight curve created by plants.
But what really moved me today was this eastern slope of restio and rosemary.
I took a hundred pictures. Let me show them to you.
It looked good from the top too. I'm this close to ripping out my whole garden and starting over with restio and rosemary.
6 comments:
What a beautiful garden! I would have loved to walk there, and see all the gorgeous flowers! Thanks for sharing
I am euphoric at the sight of all that euphorbia thriving by the stairs. Big fan of the stuff now, here in deer country. That view is amazing... I agree that an occasional sense of enclosure within a big garden space is very important, a shot of intimacy to rest the brain and soul amid so many details. The flume pipe is the coolest!
What luxury! To have all this richness of pictures in one post! There is so much in this garden that could be the garden of my dreams. Always loved the mystery of the grotto type of opening in a place. But all is so, so beautiful- you captured it so well with your camera. Thank you :)
It is all beautiful! I love lavender too! I have a few plants and love when they bloom!!!(-: Thanks for sharing your pictures!
I ALWAYS love your blog and photos. Just wanted to point that out. That's it!
I'm always drawn to that circular pond. So much great structure in this garden. Thanks for the tour.
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