Glad to hear the slide show comes across even at slow speeds. The girl is in our meditation group.
The flower is Datura, the perennial kind. I tried the annual daturas as well, and they dropped seed. I will never plant annual datura again, it is no wonder they are so weedy on manure piles; they are prolific. The two flower beds are both weed-barrier gardens. The girl is standing next to a roadside flower bed that is 100' x 10', all done on weed barrier, alongside a rural road about 15 miles outside of town, with no irrigation. It had hydrogel underneath the weed barrier, it relied on selection of plants adapted to low-maintenance, and it relied on rainfall. Perennials are the most important component, but the annuals are also important. I learned a great deal from working with plants and seeds on this bed for 5 years, then I took it out because an electric fence for sheep pasture was installed right across the bed. It was installed as a demonstration of the weed barrier + hydrogel method, and to experiment with plants and permaculture design. The roadside flower bed as a weed-barrier garden literally appeared to me in a day dream, along with this poem: "The beauty of the Earth, Fills my eyes, With a pounding heart, My spirit soars" The other weed barrier is in a yard, so it was designed differently. It has wood chips as a pathway that curves through the 15' x 60' bed. Thus, you create planting "beds" by sculpting wood chip pathways; the exposed weed barrier thus creates a "bed." This flower garden is still in use and the owner, a lady friend, loves it. Steve Diver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Picked it up great! > Even on my very slow internet connect speed (24000bps) > Who is the girl in the purple skirt, and is that Angel Trumpet she's > pointing at? The flowforms are gorgeous and so is the rest of the > photography. > thanks for sharing > > Martha Wells~Flylo Farms~ Texas Zone 8
