Off the Wall Falls, originally uploaded by harogi.
The Liliʻuokalani Botanical Garden is a city park and young botanical garden located on North Kuakini Street, Honolulu, Hawaii. It is one of the Honolulu Botanical Gardens, and open daily without charge.
Go with the Flow, originally uploaded by harogi.
The garden’s site was given to the City and County of Honolulu by Queen Liliʻuokalani, Hawaiʻi’s last reigning monarch, and contains the Nuʻuanu Stream and Waikahalulu waterfall. It is under development to feature native Hawaiian plants.
From Garden Tour, originally uploaded by dnn_rchmnd.
I think I recognize this extensively landscaped backyard from a feature in Gardens West magazine a few years ago. If I’m correct the garden is somewhere around the West Coast of BC and features several Wooden bridges and stone paths woven designed around a large multi-level water garden. As indicated by the photo title, it was part of Garden Tour a few years back, likely around the same time it was featured in a garden magazine.
Such gardens are impressive and inspiring to gardeners of all ages and levels. Whether one is an amateur, professional landscaper or following studies via botanical institutes or elearners, seeing examples of other work is vital. It provides ideas on which to build, expand. Gardening is art and science, and is by no means easy!
Nenuphar de l’ile Maurice, originally uploaded by greg..!.
I’m not sure if these lily-pad-like water plants are a type of water lily or if they are some other exotic water plant but the effect is dramatic and I love it. Trying to describe it in words has me realizing the limits of my water gardening knowledge. What do you call the foliage on water garden plants?
DSC_0227.JPG, originally uploaded by tranism.
If I’ve got it right this is a picture from “The Japanese Garden” - a public garden park in Van Nuys, California. I believe that is the Tea House you can see in the background across the extensive water portion of the gardens. I especially like the small islands. Very Zen.
Chase looking at the water, originally uploaded by ginthefer.
I came across this photo purely by accident and I love it! This young boy sitting on the stone slabs by a natural water garden setting immediately brought to mind the image of a young Zen master peacefully enjoying the moment and basking in the gardens around him.
Japanese Garden, originally uploaded by deegs.
Biddulph Grange is a National Trust house and landscaped gardens, situated in Biddulph near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. “Behind a gloomy Victorian shrubbery there’s a gloomy Victorian mansion, but behind that lurks one of the most extraordinary gardens in Britain…it contains whole continents, including China and Ancient Egypt - not to mention Italian terraces and a Scottish glen.
Biddulph Grange, originally uploaded by Mike Rollinger.
In the Egyptian part of the garden, “Two sphinxes guard the mastaba-like entrance to a tunnel, whose darkness is an invitation to explore. Deep inside is a bloody chamber (lit by a hidden window of red-coloured glass) in which squats the half-spooky, half-comic figure of the Ape of Thoth.”
Biddulph Grange, originally uploaded by kev747.
The true brilliance of Biddulph Grange “lies in the way that Cooke and Bateman hid the different areas of the garden from each other, using heaps of rocks and thickly planted shrubberies’ the design locks together as tightly as a jigsaw or a cross-section of the brain.” It contains “a series of Italianate terraces, connected by steps and enclosing small flower gardens’ at the bottom, long, buttressed hedges enclose a dahlia walk.”
Biddulph Grange, originally uploaded by quimby.
