Art in Bloom Garden Tour House #6

 

Art in Bloom garden tour, house number 6 (as posted in When I Was 69)

Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons? -Arundhati Roy, author (b. 24 Nov 1961)

 This was the last house on our Garden Tour for 2022!

We had a wonderful parking place right in front of the home!

A very big flower bed!

Interesting old trees.

Monday Murals

 

Monday murals (also posted on When I Was 69)

"It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.  

"It is a matter of converting the high technology from weaponry to livingry.

 - R. Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path, 1981

Our Black Mountain Center for the Arts building has been given some artistic murals.

The brilliant blue is on the ground floor.

Even going around a corner! I love that feature!

The top floor, where the galleries are, has some butterflies against a possible sky blue.

I didn't stop on that visit to see the middle floor, so will capture it for you sometime in the future!

Linking to Monday Murals

Art in Bloom Garden Number 5

 

Art in Bloom garden tour, House number 5 (also posted in When I Was 69)

 The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. -Madeleine L'Engle, writer (29 Nov 1918-2007)

Pretty house on Cotton St, across from a garden tour house, but not in the tour

See the frog? For some reason he has a flower on his back.

Lonely little Dahlias.

Exuberant flowers being held in check!

And then you turn a corner of the house to see all this...

This is the winter garden, with many evergreens that stay green all year long.

Bluebirds love this shape of house. Those are tomato plants above the straw. I forgot to ask why they used that mulch for them.

One of the owners (Suzanne I think) gave good descriptions and stories about their garden to Helen.

I was drawn to a cup of water with lime floating in it and a chair to rest...

See the steep slope on the left and the more gradual one on the right. Someone told me when I was halfway down the left slope that I could have used the other one. By my eyes they had both looked equal from standing at the top. Strange.

It took me a very long time to find the fox in the painted door. He's not only hidden, but faded away.

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Art in Bloom garden tour, house number 4 as posted in 'When I Was 69'

 

Art in Bloom garden tour, house number 4

Here Ellen checks the view the artist is painting, and my friend Helen looks on!

We had to guess what these little fruits were, but when asked what the leaves looked like, I said peaches. That was the clue, they are nectarines, my favorite fruit! How great that they can grow here as well as California!

I chose to walk up the steps to the raised deck rather than follow the stepping stones to the back yard.

Again a lot of gravel. And another building too!

A second artist working on the other side of the house!

As we left there were three flowers in red to enjoy...

Check out the floral art that was in the gallery over on my blog  Alchemy of Clay

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all. -Nicolas Boileau-Despr, poet and critic (1 Nov 1636-1711)

Art in Bloom Garden Tour House No. Three (duplicate of When I was 69)

 

Art in Bloom Garden Tour House No. Three

 Just across the street from the former (No. Two) house was the No. Three home. Up a steep hill we climbed to the back garden, and it was worth it!

Wonderful stone work throughout

From the top of the drive

Great to have labels on a lot of plants, but not all! We kept commenting how there were no weeds! (I imagine a landscaping crew on their knees plucking weeds out)

My friend Helen talked with the artist...

Bill said he was taking photos to hopefully publish in a newspaper (unnamed)

The photographer, Bill, said he'd take our photo on my camera...so I said sure...but we didn't even know the lady in the hat...no problem. He started taking them before we posed, and I think that was best.

On to the next area, in an older part of Black Mountain. Sharing with Living in Black Mountain.

Sharing with Garden Bloggers Bloom Day for July.

And check out the Gallery Exhibit of the Floral art for this fund raiser at my blog about art:

 Alchemy of Clay.

Garden Tour House Two

 Copy from When I Was 69

Garden tour House Two

 Right up the hill from Teresa, her neighbor had a simple area she called a secret garden. Compared to Teresa's abundant south facing garden, this was a shady nook with hostas and other shade loving plants.

By the front steps was a beautiful blue hydrangea, which also had a few variegated blooms.

The front porch was very inviting.

An artist found a corner from which to view the shady garden

Several beautiful begonias were potted on her porch.

The hostess could tell the history about all her potted plants, one of which was probably 100 years old.

From the Garden Tour Map

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Check out the floral displays in the gallery at my art blog: Alchemy of Clay