Enhancing the Old, Planting for the Future

Great photos. It makes such a difference having an appealing environment in which to live

I love making these little windows where we can see into each other's world.

Nice walk around town, thanks we have too much water here to walk too far....lol...so it is nice to virtually walk with you!

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Glad you joined me for a little walk downtown. "Change in the moon, change in the weather" the last few nights and mornings of the full harvest moon in Aries have been misty. You need to get a good pair of wellies for wading in your bog! and plant water loving trees like maples (willows are too messy, I think).

It's a nice time of year with all those colours. Great that the local council is doing something positive with regard to landscaping/planting etc. It looks like they've put some serious thought into it.

~I agree with Hywel~ it's great that someone in officialdom cares!Looks a lovely area!

Some very pretty pictures and colours for autumn also some still in flower, love the effect of the creeper, its good when councils make a place enviromently. I have watched on tv in the past how the community too in the usa go into derelict places and makes them into gardens.

It makes it a pleasure to walk through, doesn't it!

Thanks for taking us with you.

Thanks for the walk you let us go with you.

Lovely blog - maybe you could print these comments off and give them to the council - they really appreciate people saying when they like something and not always people complaining to them (I dont work for a council by the way!! - just believe in praising when someone gets it right!!!)

What a genius idea, Genuis! Didn't know I could print this, will look into it. I agree that "looking for the good and praising it" is more effective than complaining. Public plantings like these model water wise plants and low maintenance possibilities in broad swathes. Being an agricultural area of pear and apple orchards (being lost rapidly to housing developments) set amongst the wild beauty of mountains, there seems to be more awareness of nature. Of course, a little friendly competition with historic Jacksonville, an 1890s brick goldmining neighbor hosting the Britt Festival, and Ashland, just up the hill with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and many moneyed New Agers, may have encouraged some spit and shine!

Sometimes competition is what is needed, but it matters not....whatever possessed them to make a beautiful place it was well worth it. And maybe it wasn't the competitition with the surrounding communitities...maybe it was just pride in home and joy is nature that worked for the council there!

Ya know I don't know if I can get Wellies here, will have to look into it....but I am making some plantings from wild, local seed for this type of area....I have some Swamp Mallow going in in the way back where the water issue it the worst.We will be putting in a willow cutting at the 'pond' area come spring...there is planty of herb sized wet loving plants here too! Then there are the marginal bushes like the strawberry bush I am planting seeds for......

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A lovely blog and photos Orgratis. Some won derful leaf colours. As we've had such a mild Autumn here in the south east of England, a lot of the trees are still not turning Autumn colours yet!