These shots taken at the family cottage on Lake Winnipeg serve to remind me that while gardens can be beautiful, man-made creations certainly do not have a lock on beauty.
We only need look to nature where we can often see a different kind of beauty.
We only need look to nature where we can often see a different kind of beauty.
A less manicured and less 'designed' beauty.
One that nonetheless has something to teach us about design - after all, who put those tall grasses in back and that shorter, bright red accent plant in front?
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Sharing with Tuesday Garden Party, Garden Tuesday, Nature Notes & Foliage Follow Up 
I smile, you speak as though gardens were an improvement on Nature . . . pure human conceit. I am always mindful to plant where things will grow well, not to a grand design, I also let thins stay where they have seeded on the maxim that "where God sows, it grows". When you work with non-wetting, saline soil in a dry area you soon learn to take any help offered.Companion planting is my way here, I take any help I can get.
ReplyDeleteOf course, I could get in truckloads of topsoil and pop in an instant designer garden but where would be the challenge in that??
Arija,
DeleteI love to take my cues from the garden. While I do not leave every volunteer where it lands I at least try to transplant them and keep them in the garden. If you search for some of my posts on my woodland garden you will see that I really try and build on what nature already has in place - it is a great strategy for locations like that but not for my home where leaving it 'as is' would mean leaving lawn (boo).
Wonderful photos! Nature shows all his beauty!
ReplyDeleteIt sure does, especially this time of year, oh, and in the spring too, and let's not forget about summer...
DeleteSo true. So lovely!
ReplyDeleteThanks Pam, glad you enjoyed it. It really made me want to add some grasses to my own gardens!
DeleteI totally agree Laura; if only I could convey the sense of the warm breeze and crisp clean air too!
ReplyDeleteYes..this is a good reminder and I try not to clean up everything to let any hiding insects stay the winter..beautiful to be able to visit the lake Derek..Thank you for linking into this week's Nature Notes...Michelle
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting as always Michelle!
DeleteSuch lovely images of nature's garden. Thanks for sharing for Foliage Follow-Up, Derek.
ReplyDeletePam, Thanks for hosting. I love celebrating more than just flowers in the garden.
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