Garden Tripod 37

GTARDEN RIPOD ART Issue 37 December 2015

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GTARDEN RIPOD ART Issue 37 December 2015

Cover Image The Christmas Rose by Marilyn Cornwell

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Editor’s Review Office News Hound Rabiah Seminole

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GTARDEN RIPOD ART Editor’s Review

Hi Folks, First I must give a big thank you to Marilyn Cornwell, who is a photographer exploring two realms - the magic and wonder of plants, gardens and flowers in the natural world, and the everyday decays in the urban environment which are turned into abstract images. Marilyn’s image titled ‘The Christmas Rose‘ is on this Garden Tripod’s cover page, also we have a very interesting article from Marilyn on the subject of ‘The Good Garden Traveller’ inside this publication.

The Tripod is going through changes ..

• The first of these changes is that we have lost our sponsor for the web page, after several hours of intense negotiations our web page finance has come to an end, this was not the outcome we had hoped for, but things happen for reasons.

• The second of these changes is we are having to scale back the number of issues we have a year .. From twelve a year, down to one, this will be in the form of a year catalogue. The catalogue will be available to view online free and hard copies will be available to purchase. The hard copies will be sold with no profit set so the price you pay is the POD printers costs. (we felt that one good size issue a year was better than a very thin twelve issues) This is a direct result again of loosing our sponsor and web page.

• The third of these changes is we are looking to redesign the Garden Tripod to hopefully attract a new sponsor so that we can move forward, when this happens the Garden Tripod will return to its full potential as a monthly publication.

So watch this space .. and we will keep you updated as things happen. As always .. we are keeping the text real, so spelling mistakes and grammatical errors are all here for free.

The team at the Garden Tripod would like to wish all our contributors, writers & readers a very Happy Christmas and Prosperous New Year Ed

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GTARDEN RIPOD ART Hi Folks,

Office News Hound

Changes … well the tripod is definitely going through some changes .. All I can say is I will miss you all and will look forward to seeing your amazing images in the year catalogue.

This is going to be my first Christmas without Joseph … so as your office News Hound I dedicate this issue of the Garden Tripod to the memory of Joseph, my best friend.

Happy Christmas to everyone and I hope you have an amazing

New Year.

Stay Safe Princess Summer

In memory of Joseph 2003 ~ 2015

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Seasons Greetings

Seasons Greetings From All at the Garden Tripod

The Good Garden Traveller Marilyn Cornwell

All photographs & text in this article are © copyrighted and owned by Marilyn Cornwell. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from Marilyn Cornwell is prohibited. All rights reserved. Marilyn Cornwell images do not belong to the public domain. They are not available for “pinning, showcasing, and similar activities”. They really aren’t.

The Good Garden Traveller

Marilyn Cornwell

Things like people talking about their grandchildren while walking past and ignoring the rare orchids. It includes talking while the tour leader is talking, taking phone calls and texting while on a tour, complaining about the garden design and plantings, and bragging about their own plants as better than the garden’s. One of my favourites is walking in front of the photographer who is taking flower close-ups.

What does it mean to be a good garden traveller? Does it matter? Does it mean we know garden etiquette?

We’ve seen ‘bad’ garden traveller behaviour in public gardens, haven’t we? You can likely bring these tidbits to mind easily. They are things like: taking plant cuttings, eating a tomato from the vine, touching the flowers or the antique statues, arriving a half hour before closing, trying to take a dog into a ‘no dog’ garden, throwing pennies into the Koi pond, carving names and initials on tree trunks. The list can accumulate quickly, can’t it?

Garden etiquette starts us thinking about who we’re being while we’re in gardens. We discover that it is going to take something to rise above the distractions. That’s because we want to have extraordinary garden experiences when we visit extraordinary gardens.

There are so many things that can detract from a great garden experience.

Writing Touching

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Pennies

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Research and Planning So what will it take ?

It is going to take thoughts, behaviours and actions to move to the level of the extraordinary garden experience. It’s not hard or difficult and once we practice, it will become easy. It’s much easier than learning to tie your shoes or ride a bike.

Here are our steps: 1. Delve into your interests 2. Do some research, plan dates and itinerary 3. Arrive ready for the experience 4. Slow down, make space and cultivate attention 5. Attune to the Wow Lens 6. Find the expert and tune into other visitors 7. Record and summarize the experience

Our first step is to look at our thoughts and delve into our interests. This is because our thoughts are key. When we delve into our passions and interests, we will find those things that we thrive on, that lead us and motivate us forward. These are things we can’t live without, and we just seem to be doing them a lot. When you are able to articulate and appreciate your passions and interests, you focus on them and are no longer distracted by the less positive actions of others.

Focus on

your interests Our second step is to do some research and planning. It is so easy now to find gardens matching your interests and passions with internet searching and garden websites. I live only seven hours from the Philadelphia area, and on a web search found a site with 30 gardens within 30 miles of each other in the Philadelphia area. This made planning a one day visit to five gardens a quick activity.

It is important to consider the window of bloom in the spring garden. Below is the difference a month makes in a visit to Winterthur to see the Spring Bank in full bloom.

Early April vs Late May at Winterthur

Changes in the Seasons Thinking of a peony festival? There’s a 2 to 3 week window each year from late May to mid June in our Ontario Canada climate.

The Festival celebration is usually around the second weekend in June. This is what you’ll see then. The gazebo stands on the horizon, surrounded by the beautiful scene of thousands of peony blossoms.

Thinking of a

Flower festival But if you take a trip in November, as I did last year, this is the scene. The gazebo stands alone on the horizon, the only feature to be admired.

Not able to go at the prime blooming season? Consider a visit to public gardens with conservatories. In my own area, there are three very fine conservatories: Niagara Fall’s Showcase Greenhouses, Toronto’s Allan Gardens and Centennial Gardens Greenhouses. A seven hour drive away is Longwood Gardens, near Philadelphia, PA. All of these have flower festivals to give us relief from the dreary winter months and accompany the cheerful spring and summer months.

Longwood’s famous Thousand Flower Tree

Allan Gardens Chrysanthemum Festival

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Dress for the Occasion

Our third step happens when we actually get to our destination. We arrive ready for the experience. We take care of the possible worries and problems like umbrellas, cameras with batteries and memory cards, comfortable shoes, and botanic garden membership cards that let us in for free. There’s also a suggestion that you dress for the occasion of having a great experience and being ready to meet important and enjoyable people. Baseball caps, track pants, worn-out t-shirts are comfortable clothes for the grocery parking lot, rather than the botanic garden. I have removed many a visitor using photoshop because of their apparel – it doesn’t match the surroundings and distracts from the images of the gardens.

Slowing down To get a sense of what slowing down is about, it is worth visiting a garden that makes you slow down. The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles is such a destination. It is world famous as a music hall and architectural wonder designed by Frank Gehry. We are forced to slow down when walking along the building’s stainless steel curving walls. They remove our context and create an enclosed space of smooth metal. Walking up the stairs seems like a floating experience. We arrive at the patio garden on the balcony. These towering walls remove the everyday world and transport one into an experience of visual mystery.

The garden is magical with the soft glowing light of the walls around it.

truly enjoying

our experience Dressing for a special occasion sets us up for truly enjoying our experience. Our fourth step is to slow down to cultivate our attention. Slowing down allows you to see everything around you and makes you open to your physical senses – the sights, sounds, smells and touch of the garden.

Multi-tasking with emails, messages, and personal catch-up conversations will take you away from the sensual experiences.

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in Los Angeles

It is world famous as a music hall and

architectural wonder designed by Frank Gehry.

Looking Down Another experience of slowing down occurred this spring in a beautiful Toronto garden. Marion Jarvie is a well-known Canadian horticulturalist who opens her garden 3 times a year. I was there in April, and found slowing down essential to the experience. Toronto’s gardens in April are bare if we survey the landscape.

Yet, if we look below our feet, we see some special plants.

Below my feet was Corydalis Solida (George Baker) a beautiful spring ephemeral.

Below

my feet

The Fifth Step Once we have an ability to slow down, we can move onto the fifth step - to attune to our wow lens. What is a wow lens? It is the open mindedness that makes you a porous sponge for the garden wonders that surround you. To learn to do this, we often start by going to wow gardens at the best times of year – spring, autumn and Christmas.

You will become aware of what enchants and interests you and will then be able to tune into your own garden passions and enjoy them.

I have a great interest in spiritual gardens so made sure I visited the Aga Khan Museum and Garden in Toronto.

It was formally opened in the spring of 2015, with a mature landscape of serviceberry trees shading granite benches, and framing five large reflecting pools. I was in awe of the grand space, the white walls and infinity pools that created a garden of the spiritual and serene.

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Finding the Expert How else can a person make sure to experience the wow factors in big gardens? Look for the expert and you will find interesting stories. They are docents, tour leaders, gardeners, and even administrators. The shuttle bus driver at Winterthur showed me the two Sargent Cherry trees and told me their magical story – they are the first and oldest such trees in North America.

Here are a few to get things started: What questions might you ask an expert?

• What’s the largest/oldest/most distinctive tree in the garden?

• How many plants are planted each year?

• Who designed the gardens – who is the designer now?

• Are there any ‘one of a kind’ or experimental plants?

• Are there areas in the garden that are historic or named for someone?

I had such an experience in Pasadena, CA on a very hot day at Huntington Library and Gardens. I noticed these arbours made of cement. There seemed to be hundreds located at the entrance to the Japanese Garden with various vines on them. And then I found a person working within them, creating more of these beautiful ‘faux wood’ structures. Terry Egan kindly shared his interest and passion and posed for pictures.

The expert turned out to be Terry Egan,

the leading artist in creating faux bois arbours.

He works in the garden,

on site, restoring and recreating this largest sculpture in any botanic garden.

One Final Step Our final step is to do something after your visit is completed. It includes reviewing and editing the photos to select the top 7 – 10 photos that tell the garden’s story of your visit. Then there are some notes to capture: highlights, surprises, interesting facts that will then become a summary. Think of this as a “3 minute elevator speech.” This is a term that illustrates how long you have to gain and lose attention - an elevator ride. Your garden story will be short and captivating. It will be the beginning of a great conversation or will be the lead-in to future conversations. You will make a real connection to your passion and to the people you talk to about the garden.

Our steps are completed. We started our journey with a peek into garden etiquette and took a path that follows and fulfils our passions and interests.

Our journey, though, must come back to you: is garden etiquette more or less important now? Have you discovered something about your own interests?

Do you have a sense of making your garden travel experiences the best they can be every time?

The Good Garden Traveller is an important person. This person brings alive an appreciation of the living art of garden design and gardening activity.

As a living art, gardens are like a painting, novel, or symphony – they tell a story. So our visits to gardens are important. They contribute to keeping garden art alive and well.

Sculpture from the Chihuly Sculpture Museum and Garden, Seattle, WA, 2012.

All photographs & text in this article are © copyrighted and owned by Marilyn Cornwell. Any reproduction, modification, publication, transmission, transfer, or exploitation of any of the content, for personal or commercial use, whether in whole or in part, without written permission from Marilyn Cornwell is prohibited. All rights reserved.

Marilyn Cornwell images do not belong to the public domain. They are not available for “pinning, showcasing, and similar activities”. They really aren’t.

The Good Garden Traveller Marilyn Cornwell

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Shades Of Red by Judy Wolinsky

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We would like to thank all our image contributors who have made the Garden Tripod so successful.

All members of : country garden come grow with us group, in redbubble & the garden tripod group in Fine Art America

All the people who have allowed their work to be shown on the cover of the Garden Tripod 2015 Marilyn Cornwell, HCookdraws, MLabuda, Bruce Pritchett, Chris Armytage, Charlie Mclenahan, Adrian Kent, Cliff Vestergaard, Jenny Wood, CADavis.

2014 Janis Zroback, Philip Johnson, Chris Allen, Vin Zzep, Lars Furtwaengler, Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch, Hans Bax, Kelly Eaton, Garden Tripod, 2013 Lynda McDonald, walstraasart, nopostonsundays, RC deWinter, Clare Colins, Lucinda Walter, pastmix, Barbara Wyeth, Cheryl Hodges, Heather Buckley, Bob Daalder, Garden Tripod, 2012 Lois Bryan, geoff curtis, Nicole W., Paul Pasco.

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We would like to thank all our authors who have made the Garden Tripod so successful.

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Marilyn Cornwell, who has shared with us her amazing gardens and conservatory explorations.

Katie Freeth, with the fascinating subject of Culture of plants and gardens.

Nicole W, our very own office temp, who has delighted us with tails from her garden along with her amazing photography.

Andrea Durrheim, who allowed us to view some of her articles form a garden publication.

Richard Fenwick, with his articles on Micropropagation/plant tissue culture.

Its been an amazing journey we have all been on, we look forward to the future & publishing the Garden Tripod Art year catalogue next year.

Please keep posting your images in your group because, if we don’t see your work we won’t know want to be included in the yearly catalog.

Sadly not everyone can be in the year catalogue, those shortlisted for inclusion will be contacted before any publication takes place.

Contributors

Founder & Editor C Mclenahan Treasurer V Gore News Hound Rabiah Seminole Cover image The Christmas Rose by Marilyn Cornwell

Spotlight features Marilyn Cornwell Written Features by Marilyn Cornwell

Into FAA with Bruce Pritchett Denise Clark Rumyana Whitcher Joy Watson Doug Norkum Judy Wolinsky Georgia Sheron Lois Bryan Rabiah Seminole Joseph Baril Debbie Oppermann

CGCGWU Featured Sometimes Its the Little Things by Lozzar Flowers & Art Stars in your Eyes by Karen E Camilleri A Seaside Warp by Larry Lingard-Davis Dandelion Different V by Nicole W. Blowball Bokeh Boogie.... (II) by Bob Daalder Valarian by Clare Colins Path in Autumn by ienemien October Light by David Lamb Queens near Yengo - Mt Wilson NSW Australia by Bev Woodman Vein System by trueblvr Autumn's End by relayer51 Smokebush by Barbara Wyeth

CGCGWU Best Image Winter Fluff by Fay270 Lily of the valley by Ana Belaj Lily of the valley by Eugenio The Tooth Fairy by wiggyofipswich KISSING THE WIND by marxbrothers A Star in My Garden by Georgia Mizuleva Garden Pearls by Lynn Gedeon curls of green by lensbaby poinsettia flower by spetenfia Vintage Roses by Elaine Teague Red Roses by JHMimaging 0959 A riot of Spring colour by DavidsArt Too Big for the Frame by wolftinz Happiness is Yellow by John Velocci At dusk... by Nicole W. Sugar and Spice by Penny Smith Buckeye Proud by Monnie Ryan MY GARDEN - water colour by Marilyn Grimble Hostas on a rainy day by cclaude I Love You To Abstraction by MotherNature2 Earth Songs.... Symphony by ©Janis Zroback Japanese Gardens, Toowoomba by PhotosByG The Widow's Cotttage by RC deWinter Garden in Giverny, France by Caroline Lembke Romantic Wisteria by Alexandra Lavizzari Autumn Leaves by Vicki Spindler (VHS Photography) Spring Beauties by autumnwind Purple Perfection, My Pond, Tumut, Australia. by kaysharp Love of Nature by Susan Werby Moss by Morag Anderson Tangerine Tree? by metriognome Organic lady apples by Celeste Mookherjee Green house waiting for repair. by Karen Betts Winter Trees I by Ludwig Wagner Fiddlehead Farm Market by phil decocco Butchart Gardens VICTORIA BC in the FALL ........ by AnnDixon Orange Sunflowers - Found In The Attic

by Sandra Foster Enchanted Lands by Sue Purveur Yellow Beauty by Martha Medford Ivy Wall by debidabble Withered Yellow Rose by ©The Creative Minds Magic Light by Nuno Pires Tree Universe by Nate4D7 Along the Newham Woodend Road Newham VIC Australia

by Margaret Morgan (Watkins) Rufous-tailed hummingbird in flight by hummingbirds Shiroyama by Mui-Ling Teh Rose Splendour by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch Luke 12:27 Consider the lilies, how they grow…. by Laurie Puglia

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All The Materials Contained May Not Be Reproduced, Copied, Edited, Published, Transmitted Or Uploaded In Any Way Without the artist/photographers Permission. These Images/writings Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. All images and information within the Garden Tripod magazine are the responsibility of the owner/artist/writer/photographer & not the Garden Tripod magazine 2012-2015