Listen to Your Garden

A gardener finds music in her plants

Today ’s photos come from Marilyn Brackney . She has a wonderful garden and a beautiful , melodic way of describing her industrial plant . She ’s been garden about 20 years . Her Indiana garden has heavy the Great Compromiser soil , and she ’s learned over the years to grow plant that will flourish easily in her condition . In the descriptions of her pictures below , she describes each plant and scene in terms of sound and music . It is such a lovely way to think about a garden ! Do you see music in the color of your flowers ?

In this scene , echinacea ( coneflower , Zones 3–9 ) adds some singing to the other flower articulation . Nothing babble out of tune here .

This motion picture is from the shade garden withastilbeandhostas . It barely Al Faran .

The barbarian kid of genus Rudbeckia ( Rudbeckia fulgida , Zones 3–9 ) and genus Echinacea growing where they please , but still in musical harmony .

I love how this bright redMonarda(bee balm , Zones 4–10 ) stretches its neck to be heard over the other industrial plant . The bee and humming birds do it it too .

This picture has two forte chairs primarily fence by the humbled hum of the shade garden , a overnice place to sit for some tranquil .

This last picture show my water pond , behind a hosta . No garden should be without the sounds of gurgling weewee — and yes , it has fish . I grease one’s palms four Carassius auratus about 10 years ago ; now I have 22 goldfish and several frogs .

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