Stay Away

They seem to be guarding the silk poinsettias planted in their yard's border.

Photo: Francesca Davis DiPiazza

Garden Snakes

In the fall, our garden hoses begin to look like snakes.

Photos:  Jo Ann Musumeci

Meander Here

I am fascinated by the myriad ways that people landscape their yards.  I frequently go on garden tours to see special landscaping, but this one, and many others, I see when I'm running, biking, or walking in the neighborhood.  This yard is north of the Cepro Site greenspace on the Greenway, between 10th and 11th Aves.

Photo:  Jo Ann Musumeci

Quack!

Amusing, charming, personal.  I expect it to move at any moment.

Photo:  Jo Ann Musumeci

Container Garden

You don't need a yard to have attractive plants.  These potted plants almost look like they are floating.

Photo:  Jo Ann Musumeci

Graffiti Gone Gardens

Girl Scout project: beginning by clearing grass and stones to make a decent bed for their boulevard garden

A good time was had by all, and the new garden is in.

Photo:  Jo Ann Musumeci

Caught In The Act

A female goldfinch picked up a seed in it's beak among the zinnias, right off the busy 26th St.

Photo:  Jo Ann Musumeci

Stripes, Stars, And Stripes

There's another striped chair up at the top of the steps.  A fun combination of patterns.

Photo:  Jo Ann Musumeci

Boulevard garden

A veggie garden on the boulevard. Trellis ready for beans or maybe peas.

Photo: Rita Stodolka

Green wall and flowers

This ivy-coverd wall, on Grand Ave.,  is refreshing in the midst of urban grittyness.  You could be in England.

Photo: Jo Ann Musumeci

Before and After

Pinwheel at the Soo Line Community Garden, reminds me of the State Fair.  And it's on a stick.

Photo: Jo Ann Musumeci

Stonehenge in Whittier?

No, it's the Whittier Clinic stormwater management landscaping--it receives rain water from the parking lot and includes native plants around the stones.  Watch'em bloom throughout the summer.   The Clinic resides between Nicollet, Blaisdell, and 28th and 29th Streets.

Tryg Hansen is the landscape designer for the Whittier Clinic site.
Photo:  Jo Ann Musumeci