Taking a closer look in Jeff’s Tennessee garden

Today ’s picture are from Jeff Calton down in Tennessee ( past postsHERE ) . Jeff place in these exposure about 10 days ago . He said,“With most of the herbaceous plant now gone until next springtime we have to sometimes search for color and beauty in the garden . There is slew out there if you reckon intimately . The intensified color , almost pure geometry of some of the plant life , the lacework of Robert Lee Frost on the leaves – the winter face of the garden . So … get out there , grovel around , look closely , and put on the " macro glasses . " You will be surprised what you find in the garden in November . “Great advice , Jeff . I found myself doing this in my garden last weekend as I took breaks from rake the I - Thomas Kyd - you - not 10 tons of leaves in my yard . A acquaintance was helping me and ask me if I was mad that the Japanese maple was hang on to its leaves for so long , and that I ’d have to do the raking all over again in a dyad of weeks . I looked up at the ruby leaves glowing against the sky and thought , " No , it ’s worth it for this . " The miscanthus blooms , too , are fascinating as they give up and get puffier and fluffier . My Dutchman ’s pipe has dropped all its monolithic leaves , but the splayed open seed fuel pod are works of pure art . OK , peradventure I involve to start taking some pictures … .Thanks , Jeff , for the monitor to discover beauty wherever you may , even if you have to shiver to do it !

SEND ME PICS OFYOURGARDEN , OR A GARDEN YOU’VE VISITED!Email me at[email protect ] . Thanks ! – Michelle

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