Friday, February 8, 2013

And a Bit of Green Before You Go.

Or, in the case of the major Nor'easter barreling into the East Coast today, "A Bit of Green Before It Snows"...




Despite some areas of the conservatories looking a bit frost-bitten, the past year did wonders for the Green Wall at Longwood Gardens…


Green Wall, February 2012. Really neat design, actually; it's planted in flats, so they can remove a small section and replace it with another if necessary. (You can see the row divisions between the young plants here...)



Is it still considered plein air when there are a roof and walls (albeit made of glass)…? (Wish I had taken the time to pull the camera back out; the near-finished painting was rather lovely, much better than the early stages promised.)


2 comments:

LauraHinNJ said...

I can hardly imagine the amount of work this must take to maintain. They must have a small army of staff gardeners.

Now there's a job I could love, come to think of it!

Wren nests in... said...

Hmmm, there were a lot of people wearing staff shirts... *lol*

I think they take volunteers to help prune. :o)