Bare Beauty
I love this time of year when my yard gets pared down to bare bones. I have many drought tolerant natives and when winter comes, they really show off their texture.
The bark on the River Birch is just spectacular-no Photo Shopping the color here-it’s just that gorgeous.
The Crepe Myrtles are almost as beautiful now, showing their lovely mottled bark, as they are blooming like crazy in the summer.
All my grasses go to seed and bobble at the slightest breeze.
How can you not love this?
This is really spectacular! It looks aflame-it’s not backlit or anything, it just looks like this all day.
My gnarly Heritage Oaks grow lichen and moss…
Even the pots themselves bloom.
The granite outcroppings come to life with velvety texture and…
all the paths bloom too-such lush carpet!
Apparently no one told the succulents to go bare-this guy is a colorful counter point to all that bareness.
Makes me want to come visit your yard, right now mine’s all white.
COme on down! But there is so much beauty and quiet in the white stuff.
What a beautiful garden!
Thank you-it is a daily joy all year to me.
Makes me want to take a walk in your garden too! Mine is under 2 feet of snow and ice…a beautiful landscape, to be sure, but I’m ready for some sunshine and color!
I’ll bet it’s beautiful! I do remember this time of year getting the itch for warmer weather.
All spectacular sights but I particularly love the River Birch photo!
Thanks-me too!
Gorgeous! The River Birch looks like texture for a garment! Silk voile?
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Yesss! That would be so cool!
That grass ,is it a miscanthus? beautiful photos, nature in a garden shows us so much. Cheers from Jean.
Yes Jean, I believe it is a Miscanthus-good eye!
What a nice reminder for us to see what natural beauty is around us. We are moving to a lower elevation out of the current snow and ice. Seeing your plants gives me ideas for what we might incorporate into our new home. The landscaping is already established, but we want to add our own ideas. Now the only question is do deer devour crepe myrtles and red buds? We have a herd of resident deer in the neighborhood so flowers are not going to work well.
Sorry but I know nothing about deer and foliage. They’ll eat just about anything if they’re hugry enough-guess I do too!!
I love these pictures and the texture is amazing! thanks for sharing! I too can’t keep my eyes off the trees this time of year.
Yes, aren’t the trees beautiful bare-showing their structure and their bark?
really gorgeous jenny! i was just looking out the front window this morning thinking the yard looks so bleak. apparently i need to rewind that thought…
Oh I bet you have lots of beauty in your yard too-texture is in full tilt now.
Boy those photos of your yard, the grasses, and tree bark, the beauty of it all. is wonderful to see
I’m so glad you posted these for us to see
I am so glad that you enjoyed them. Nature has so many different forms of beauty!
Great Photos, the texture and colour is wonderful.
Thank you! I do love the beauty of winter here.
Love, love, love! Thank you for sharing. What type of succulent is that. I actually have one – inside of course, in my climate, but have no idea what it is.
Thank you Eunice-it’s some type of echeveria, not sure which one. I like the echeverias because they take a little low temps and they also seem to have a very gray cast with purple tones and I just love that!
I’m trying to figure out how to capture all the wonderful textures in your landscape with thread and applique – maybe raw edge might work.
Let me know when you figure it out-I’d loooove to capture that texture and that glow-from-inside look! Yes, raw edge would probably be the way to go. It probably would require that I hand dye my own fabric to capture that-ain’t gonna happen!
Wow, wow and did I mention WOW! Great shots. I wanna visit.