Sunday, 16 September 2012

foliage follow-up

September foliage follow-up is here. To tell you the truth it's almost bitter sweet to me.  If I could hit "pause" and live in the mode of high summer I would love it!  So with that in mind, my heart says savour, enjoy, love, soak it all up.  And that is exactly what I intend on doing. It has been an incredible season and from the looks of it, it shall continue! Hooray!

Savour the sunlight trickling through.

Savour the warm feeling on your cheeks.


Enjoy all the shadows cast.


Enjoy the colours.

Enjoy the textures.


Take a step back and see how things have grown.



Savour all that is September foliage follow-up!  Head on over to Pam's for the rest of the foliage follow-up.

13 comments:

  1. So many spiky plants so far from home! This always amazes me. Love all your photos, especially the last agave with the sun.

    Happy Foliage Day!

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    1. Thanks!!! happy foliage follow-up to you too!! I'm glad you like the last agave. I almost didn't put that picture in there, but then decided it was the best way to end.

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  2. You are a truly foliage aficionado, Louis! Such great texture and shape in your garden. Enjoy the last weeks of summer. Here under the Death Star, we are eagerly anticipating fall's arrival.

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    1. Thank you! coming from you that is a huge compliment because I always ohhh and ahhh over all your great foliage and textures. I shall enjoy summer lovin' for as long as I can. It is the year of summer after all. I hope that the death star leaves you alone for a bit. Tell it to head northwest!!

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  3. The play of light on everything there right now, pre-wet season, is something. But I think it is even more special with the variety of forms and foliage you have...my favorite thing about Cascadia is the turn-on of the culture to horticulture. You all really go for it...and I might add from my one visit to Vancouver BC, is that B in BC has some influence in that, I can only guess!

    I guess the words of what you show to me are vibrant and evolving (or progressing). Thanks!

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    1. Pre-wet season is spectacular!!! Thank you for the kind words. As you know I'm a sucker for bold plants. But my new goal is to soften things up with some really good companion plantings. Agastache is one I have in mind for next spring. What do you think?

      I think you are right about the B in BC and Cascadian horticultural happiness! it's grand :)

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  4. Perfect foliage follow up post Louis, you captured summer in everyone of those pictures. Come January I'll be right here absorbing some sun!

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    1. Aww thanks. It was such a spectacular day. I feel like everything lent itself to the perfect summerness!

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  6. Sorry about the previous comment. I was trying to hold two dogs and type at the same time - dogs won. Love your in ground agaves & am looking forward to hearing how they do over the winter. Mine are mostly still in pots as I'm afraid to trust them in the cold wet ground.

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    1. Haha no worries. I'm hoping they do well this winter. I keep thinking I should get more backups in pots, but then I feel like I might just jinx it all. So here's for a dry winter!!!

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  7. Louis! Is your yucca rigida trunking???? and your yucca rostrata looks bad ass! Really getting full, eh???

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  8. Rigida is trunking!!!!!!!! And you are right, the rostrata is crazy full and bad ass! It even cut me a few times.

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