16 Saturday Jul 2016
Posted in 52 Week Photo Challenge
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52week photo challenge, box ball topiary, Buxus sempervirens, Dark Planet, echinops ritro veitchs blue, round, stipa tenuissima
I am joining Sandra https://daffodilwild.wordpress.com with this weeks challenge. Round.
In the garden where I work the family are sports mad and I am always finding balls in the undergrowth. With this in mind we have introduced ball shaped, round, ornament and plants.
There are box balls and echinops and then there is Dark Planet.
All round a wonderful “round” ?
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New balls please!
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Very droll
Particularly love ‘Dark Planet’ set amongst the grasses. Thank you for your entry.
Thanks Sandra.
I like the concept of finding ’round’ in the garden – and it looks an interesting garden that you work in too
Thanks Cathy as Sandra has told me, rounds abound. It is such a lovely garden to work in and as such I enjoy it.
Do you work there full time, Dorris?
Hi Cathy, no part time. I look after the herbaceous borders.
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Great images Doris, what is that dome in the grass?
Hi Denis, thanks. It is Dark Planet, a sphere of smooth black puddle stones that is lit from within at night. It generates a gentle filtered light rather than light to see your way around. I love it set amongst the stipas.
It sounds like a functional work of art.
Yes I guess it is.
Wow! That sounds wonderful. The stipas show it off to perfection don’t they.
The stipa were my idea and I do love the look of them lightly swishing in the breeze with the dark planet static and moody in the middle. Only problem is this year the rabbits have been eating them. Grr
Brilliant idea! Double grrrrrr to the rabbits! there is a constant tussle with wildlife in the garden!
Is ‘dsrk planet’ a structure? It doesn’t look like a plant. So many round things in your garden.
No its man made! It is a sphere of puddle stones that is lit from within. Set in the middle of an area of the garden and surrounded by stipa tenuissima. It is not in my garden rather the garden where I work.