At the beginning of May, the NxNA Garden Tour took place and of the
24 gardens, I managed to visit 19 of them. It was a busy day.
You can read my other NxNA Garden Tour entries (both this year and last year
here).
The Fulk garden was a themed container garden - the themes included Mojito and Spaghetti sauce (shown below) there was also a Salsa container as well. This is a super cute idea and I've told my sister (who just started her own container herb gardens) that she might want to try this next year. She lives in Colorado, so a lot of her herbs will need to be replanted as opposed to down here where most are perennial.
The main draw of this garden, though, was the artwork of
Janet Fulk and
Charlotte Barbini.
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| Mojito Herb Garden Plant list |
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| Spaghetti Sauce herb garden |
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| Janet Fulk Artwork - I really loved the watercolor (I think) of a flapper. I should have bought one of the prints she had of it, but I had already purchased the bike photo and I figured Shawn wouldn't be happy with another art purchase. |
The Ortega Garden is in its infancy, and the main draw here was the photography of
John Raymond and the garden artwork of Linda Messier.
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| Randy must be doing something right since he has a visiting anole. |
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| Garden art. |
On my 8th stop of the garden tour, I ended up walking around the YMCA
(because apparently I am blind as to where the garden was), but it's
okay because they recently finished landscaping the area and it was a
very lovely short walk along the Walnut Creek Hike and Bike Trail.
The
coolest thing about the Gus Garcia garden was that it included garden
tables so the elderly folks didn't have to bend over to garden. The
tables were very sturdy, and they also had actual garden plots for those
who wanted to get down on hands and knees to garden. Unlike the
community gardens in some other parts of town, this one had plots that
were open and not currently being used. They also have a huge rain
barrel cistern which collects the rain from the YMCA roof - it is
gravity fed underground and fills the cistern (like a giant
manometer tube - or the newly constructed
Waller Creek Tunnel if Waterloo park was the YMCA gutters and the cistern was the outlet)
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| Entrance sign |
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| The awesome raised tables |
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| The exit from the Senior garden |
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| Raised beds - the tree line behind the fence is where Walnut Creek is located. I've heard the Hike and Bike trail is awesome, but I wouldn't know because the day I was supposed to bike it, we had a rain storm. |
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