I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
by Kay Novy
Title
I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
Artist
Kay Novy
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
This lovely garden park is located along the lakefront in Kenosha Wisconsin, USA.
A flower garden is any garden where flowers are grown for decorative purposes. Because flowers bloom at varying times of the year, and some plants are annual, dying each winter, the design of flower gardens can take into consideration to maintain a sequence of bloom and even of consistent color combinations, through varying seasons.
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Flower color is an important feature of both the herbaceous border and the mixed border that includes shrubs as well as herbaceous plants, and of bedding-out schemes limited to colorful annuals. Flower gardens are sometimes tied in function to other kinds of gardens, like knot gardens or herb gardens, many herbs also having decorative function, and some decorative flowers being edible.
One simpler alternative to the designed flower garden is the "wildflower" seed mix, with assortments of seeds which will create a bed that contains flowers of various blooming seasons, so that some portion of them should always be in bloom. The best mixtures even include combinations of perennial and biennials, which may not bloom until the following year, and also annuals that are "self-seeding", so they will return, creating a permanent flowerbed.
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Another, even more recent trend is the "flower garden in a box", where the entire design of a flower garden is pre-packaged, with separate packets of each kind of flower, and a careful layout to be followed to create the proposed pattern of color in the garden-to-be.
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January 30th, 2013
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Comments (104)
Brian Tada
So beautiful, Kay, magnificent floral composition! Very happy to nominate for a Special Feature in the 1,000 Views on 1 Image group. F/L
Christopher James
One of your peers nominated this image in the 1000 views Groups nominated images by your fellow artist in the Special Features #11 promotion discussion. Please visit and pass on the love to another artist.
Kay Novy
Thank you Karen, "USA Photographers And Artists" group, for the homepage feature! Greatly appreciated! Kay
Claudio Lepri
L'ortensia è sempre una pianta che riempie di colori brillanti la natura. Molto interessante la scelta di comporre in verticale la panca nera: è come un sollevare lo sguardo dalla pienezza dei cepugli per concentrarsi sui singoli fiori. The hydrangea is always a plant that fills the nature by colors. I think it's very well-chosen the vertical composition of thwe black bench: it helps to lift the gaze from the fullness of the bush to focus on the single flower. L/F