Garden Design magazine had a contest on FaceBook asking readers to write a short essay on what inspired them to create their home garden.
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Do-it Herself WorkshopWorkshop this Thursday, May 15th - 6pm- 8pm @ Home Depot, Wisconsin Rapids, Wi. Free and open to the public.
Welcome to my readers.This is my first posting to my blog, for Plant Art by J.A.Hendricksen. If you consider a garden is a 3-D, living, breathing sculpture, then in that case I have been working. Last week an order of bare root plants came in, and I have been busy potting them up. So that as soon as its warm enough, I will plant them in the garden and tell them to grow!!! The plants include Helenium, but we will call it Sneeze Weed, and bare root Raspberries. Earlier in March I received through the mail a male and a female Kiwi vine, they have grown considerably and I am thinking that by the end of May, when I plant them they should be about two feet long, if they continue their current rate of growth. we put them on the porch in the morning and bring them in at night. Potting up plants from bare root may seem like a lot of work to some, but my little garden in my 54' x 75' yard, (this includes the house and garage), supplies us with a good deal of groceries. Making my urban farm so worth it. The picture above, is not actually where I live, but it is a collage of digital photos that I have compiled in Adobe Photoshop. The house belongs to "Bill" in Scandinavia, WI., the field is from Stony Road out in Rudolph, WI, and the Apples Trees are Katie's from Port Edwards, WI.
Sometimes I do these things, just because I can, and it usually turns out to be fun. The same reason I did my living roof, although it was a ton of work, it was fun and such a bonus to have it live after a winter with 35 degree below zero temps. We do not have a lawn, however, we have spring garden chores to do. Once they are done I may have time to create more art. If you have questions about the art that we have displayed on this site, feel free to contact me, the answer may not be what you would expect. |