Nurturing Seeds
The prompt “Garden, Parks and Green Spaces” hooked me right on the first word: garden. I live in a small town of 5000 people in a rural area in Nova Scotia, Canada. We are surrounded by lots of green spaces, woods, beaches and beautiful rolling hills. There are some parks
Hong Kong Park
The importance of calming green spaces amid the hectic chaos that is Hong Kong.
Green Buildings
While green spaces are slowly (or is that quickly) disappearing from our daily lives, there are some intrepid architects and planners trying to incorporate green spaces in our buildings. Walls of greenery are appearing in the most unlikely places as well as forming cascading walls disguising concrete slabs. Green buildings
Blue space!
Community Green spaces Karol Kusmaul I recently purchased an art quilt from Pamela Allen of Canada. Its title is ‘Five Sheep and Three Big Fish’. She explained, “As I was raised a poor inner city kid, I always wanted to be in the country! I guess that’s why I seem
Communities need Greenspaces
The overarching theme of our prompts is Community. For June and July we are working on the prompt Gardens, Parks, and Greenspaces. When I travel, I love to visit gardens and arboretums in the places I visit. The carefully curated plant selections can be very inspirational. I usually take mental
Allotments (“Schrebergärten”)
In Europe, but especially in Germany, you can lease a fenced-in piece of land called a Schrebergarten (allotment). These gardens, managed by associations and leased by its members, is a fenced-in piece of land, usually containing a small structure and arbor. These allotments are intended to serve the recreational need for nature,
Working Together
The prompt “Cooperation and Sharing” immediately made me think of my visit to Loveland, Colorado last year. I was staying with my good friend, Mary McCauley, in Fort Collins, when Mary took me to the park on the way to visit her amazing Textile Art Group. We walked around a
Message from a follower
From Libby Cerullo, of Pennsylvania Martha Ressler shared her blog of April 21 with me–in which I am noted as a helper for the planting of her and Jay’s legacy forest. It was a delightful experience to get out of the house and work in the dirt! I also enjoyed
Creating green
Recently I moved to a new house. At least, it was new for me. But it was also someone else’s old house with their old garden. And since green spaces need a green thumb I guess that’s not what they had. Because all of the green present was artificial grass.
A lot greener than I thought
When the latest prompt “Gardens, Parks, Green spaces” was announced I thought immediately of the beautiful gardens at Lincoln University in New Zealand (where I was working recently) and how the whole campus is beautiful. This photo was taken in our spring and was a delight to walk through each
Generosity Forest, Martha Ressler 2-6
My husband and I had planned a big project of creating a forest on two of our acres, meeting with our county forester, researching the best species of trees to plant, buying equipment etc. Then at the beginning of April, when our 700 seedlings were delivered, simultaneously came the “stay