Saturday, July 25, 2015

Leaf and Fern Textures and Patterns - Swiss Cheese?

On a recent tour of the US Botanical garden, we learned a lot about the secrets of the place and hope to return for the underground visit to see all the behind the scenes operations. We have been here many times - before we moved to DC  - and since we moved here. In Milwaukee, we visited the Chicago Botanical garden quite regularly. One can always find a lot of ideas to incorporate in your own personal space on a much smaller scale from these well thought out gardens. But this visit highlighted some of the more obvious and not so obvious items in the various spaces that are created to support a particular plant's needs to prosper and grow. The Swiss Cheese plant leaves had "swiss cheese" holes in it so the leaves under it can also receive the sunlight, rain, and nutrients to survive. In the "dinosaur" section, the leaves and ferns took on a very different feel when we were asked to look at the undersides. The patterns and textures simply can't be replicated. They were all so artistically spellbinding as any painting I've seen. As green is my favorite color, they looked even better. Whenever we've been here before we rushed through this part of the garden because it is all green and "ferny." I'm glad we didn't this time. 






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