Hedychium coccinea 'Tara' has never looked better than backed by a stone wall.
My best memories of that morning are sitting on a large covered porch of a residence hall, chatting with a few of my fellow Flingers. We could have been out seeing the sights but instead we just enjoyed a few moments of repose. That is until it was time to find our way back to the buses. Thankfully others had a better sense of direction than I did.
There were lots of interesting things to see on the way...
This is a college campus! I don't know about you but neither of my college campuses looked anything like this...
Thankfully someone in the group pointed out the greenhouses up on the roof...
They were so close, but so far away (I so wanted to go explore!).
There was a stumpery.
Lots of stumps but not a lot of plants.
There were however stumps as furniture...
Almost back to the buses now, we were enveloped by plants.
Iris domestica, aka blackberry lily
Persicaria virginiana 'Painter's Palette'
Ferns and a nepenthes comingling in the hanging container.
I hate to think of all the cool things I missed (like this courtyard that Camille spotted), but sometimes it's nice to take it slow...
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A fantastic surrounding for a college although I can see myself being late for class regularly, losing all sense of time in the garden.
ReplyDeleteExhaustion and bad weather... you definitely deserved a respite and chat with friends. It sound like an important component of the Fling experience.
Chavli
It is definitely an important component! So many long time friends to catch up with.
DeleteI like those tower things. I did register for the Fling, I'm very much looking forward to it!
ReplyDeleteYay! You're gonna have a blast, I look forward to meeting you.
DeleteThat was a fabulous last-minute substitution! I love the roof-top greenhouses. It's too bad my roof, like other parts of my garden, isn't flat.
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine a home with a rooftop greenhouse?! (well I guess you can since mentioned it, that would be amazing!)
DeleteFerns and a nepenthes comingling in the hanging container. Hmm, I wonder how they accomplish this since the nepenthes don't like being fertilized, but the fern obviously would need to be... Unless, of course, the fern is being foliarly fed.
ReplyDelete"need to be"... maybe not? I don't regularly fertilize my plants, and if the fern was a volunteer that just sprung up in the pot, then it's probably happy doing it's own thing.
DeleteWhat a pretty campus! Reminds me of my time at Cornell University in upstate NY. Stone and brick go so well with plants.
ReplyDeleteYes they do. I wouldn't mind my next home being brick.
DeleteOh yes it was a wet walk -one of many. I'm glad we got the chance to see the gardens there in spite of the weather.
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