Here’s a great one from Columbia Heights that does a fantastic job of combining ornamental flowers with a vegetable garden. They even have a tomato I covet:
Garden of the Day
Here’s a beautiful public strip garden. I love when folks hook these public spaces up like this. It’s also from the Capitol Hill area.
I call these border gardens. This great one is from Petworth.
This is one of the first mostly cactus gardens I’ve seen. In a different garden I saw a cactus blooming which looked pretty sweet as well:
Continuing this week’s unique gardens please accept this great back balcony edition.
Not every garden of the day has to be jaw dropping. Sometimes I’m equally impressed with those that make this extra effort. And of course I continue to be a huge fan of stump planting:
This one is from an apartment building on Wisconsin Ave, NW. I really liked the use of the grasses. And nearby I spotted this:
This is one of my all time favorites from Columbia Heights. If I was a painter I’d paint this, for sure.
This beauty is from Cleveland Park. It’s actually an amazing garden all around this is just one side.
“This my favorite view in our garden. Not very expansive, but pretty. I was going to send a more general picture, but it seems there’s a campaign sign in every picture I’ve taken recently…”
It’s beautiful, nicely done!
If you have a nice garden, a great spot for a morning cup of coffee or just a particularly good looking tomato please send a photo to princeofpetworth(at)gmail(dot)com.