Art in Bloom garden tour, house number 6

Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons? -Arundhati Roy, author (b. 24 Nov 1961)

 This was the last house on our Garden Tour for 2022!

We had a wonderful parking place right in front of the home!

A very big flower bed!

Interesting old trees.

Art in Bloom garden tour, House number 5

 The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. -Madeleine L'Engle, writer (29 Nov 1918-2007)

Pretty house on Cotton St, across from a garden tour house, but not in the tour

See the frog? For some reason he has a flower on his back.

Lonely little Dahlias.

Exuberant flowers being held in check!

And then you turn a corner of the house to see all this...

This is the winter garden, with many evergreens that stay green all year long.

Bluebirds love this shape of house. Those are tomato plants above the straw. I forgot to ask why they used that mulch for them.

One of the owners (Suzanne I think) gave good descriptions and stories about their garden to Helen.

I was drawn to a cup of water with lime floating in it and a chair to rest...

See the steep slope on the left and the more gradual one on the right. Someone told me when I was halfway down the left slope that I could have used the other one. By my eyes they had both looked equal from standing at the top. Strange.

It took me a very long time to find the fox in the painted door. He's not only hidden, but faded away.

Sharing this post over at Living in Black Mountain also.

Art in Bloom garden tour, house number 4

Here Ellen checks the view the artist is painting, and my friend Helen looks on!

We had to guess what these little fruits were, but when asked what the leaves looked like, I said peaches. That was the clue, they are nectarines, my favorite fruit! How great that they can grow here as well as California!

I chose to walk up the steps to the raised deck rather than follow the stepping stones to the back yard.

Again a lot of gravel. And another building too!

A second artist working on the other side of the house!

As we left there were three flowers in red to enjoy...

Check out the floral art that was in the gallery over on my blog  Alchemy of Clay

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all. -Nicolas Boileau-Despr, poet and critic (1 Nov 1636-1711)

Garden tour this weekend, House One

 

On Tuesday I was driving along Church Street (or some other name that's connected to it) and took this shot through my window. If ever a garden looked ready for a garden tour, this is the one!

I will have gone touring through (I think) six different gardens on Fri. morning (hoping it doesn't rain!)

So I'll add those photos here also...right now is Tuesday night.

Fast forward to Saturday afternoon (after nap also). Whew, walking around beautiful gardens at 6 different locations was exhausting. But we did have a good time! And that little house above pictured wasn't one of them!

An old friend from my pottery studio days, Teresa and her husband have a beautiful home on quite a slope, and have done marvels with it's garden.

One of the lilies which were interspersed with lots of seasonal pollinators, which reseed themselves.

My recording reminds me this is Lollypop Verbena!

The reseeding goes everywhere, including the driveway!

More Lilies with Black Eyed Susans, which definitely take over areas!

Yarrow

A kind of coreopsis.

This is the map and description of the garden, as posted by the Black Mountain Center for the Arts

Each garden had artists (one or two) painting the beautiful flowers. They were very friendly and let me take their photos too.

Cone flowers

Teresa offered seeds to my friend when they were talking about how the tall Black Eyed Susans just reseed each year. How wonderful to have flowers that aren't hybrids!

This is the way the photos came out of the camera. I don't have time to edit them. I actually started recording the names of the flowers after taking their photos. That lasted until I forgot to turn the recorder off and we got 10 minutes of chit chat!

Sharing with Living in Black Mountain. I'll post more gardens whenever I have open spaces in my schedule. Tee hee that sounds like I have a schedule. Go to the library. Watch a zoom education program. Go for a walk!

THANK YOU all the wonderful owners of these 6 gardens! They were beautiful!

And don't miss the floral art exhibit at the gallery...on my Art blog...HERE