Glad to hear the slide show comes across even
at slow speeds.
The girl is in our meditation group.
The flower is Datura, the perennial kind.
I tried the annual daturas as well, and they dropped
seed. I will never plant annual datura again, it is no
wonder they are so weedy on manure piles; they are
prolific.
The two flower beds are both weed-barrier gardens.
The girl is standing next to a roadside flower bed
that is 100' x 10', all done on weed barrier, alongside
a rural road about 15 miles outside of town, with
no irrigation. It had hydrogel underneath the weed barrier,
it relied on selection of plants adapted to low-maintenance,
and it relied on rainfall. Perennials are the most important
component, but the annuals are also important. I learned
a great deal from working with plants and seeds on this
bed for 5 years, then I took it out because an electric fence
for sheep pasture was installed right across the bed. It was
installed as a demonstration of the weed barrier + hydrogel
method, and to experiment with plants and permaculture
design.
The roadside flower bed as a weed-barrier garden
literally appeared to me in a day dream, along with this poem:
The beauty of the Earth,
Fills my eyes,
With a pounding heart,
My spirit soars
The other weed barrier is in a yard, so it was designed
differently. It has wood chips as a pathway that curves
through the 15' x 60' bed. Thus, you create planting beds
by sculpting wood chip pathways; the exposed weed barrier
thus creates a bed. This flower garden is still in use and the
owner, a lady friend, loves it.
Steve Diver
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Picked it up great!
Even on my very slow internet connect speed (24000bps)
Who is the girl in the purple skirt, and is that Angel Trumpet she's
pointing at? The flowforms are gorgeous and so is the rest of the
photography.
thanks for sharing
Martha Wells~Flylo Farms~ Texas Zone 8
