'The Island Oasis' is 6 yrs. old. Actually, it's more like 14 billion yrs. old. When I began, it was very disjunct, since designing and planting a garden requires extensive evolutionary stages;plants get planted and acquired and replanted and more acquisitions and more replanting, and then there's the complete reconsiderations of whole areas. So, it just doesn't happen 'at once'. My wife, during the early stages, complained that it was flowerless. That there needed to be color. Her idea of color is the classic flower bed. I told her to be patient. It was futile for me to try and explain that color enters a garden not necessarily from flowers: It can come from foliage, fruit, bark, shifting sunlight, and even the absence of color is desireable. This is the first year that the garden is beginning to represent my original thoughts on how I envisioned this garden would function. So, as a testament to color in my garden, I assembled some photos representing what my wife could not comprehend. She has though, come to realize exactly what I had been trying to explain to her and she is blown away by our garden. And it can only get better. these will be Tilia caroliniana blooms (basswood) Magnolia grandiflora Zanthoxylum clava-herculis (toothache tree) mimosa 'summer chocolate' 'MAYBE I DON'T REALLY WANT TO KNOW HOW YOUR GARDEN GROWS, CAUSE I JUST WANT TO FLY' Noel Gallagher/Live Forever
Its an oasis of beautiful colours and shapes,..i had to take a second viewing,.. lovely to see,..well done you and i bet your wife is proud of you and the garden.
