The garden is one of the best escapes one can create in a living environment. Digitalism Magazine spotlights some summer garden flowers available to the canadian summer garden.
A garden can draw peace and colours creating an avenue to relieve stress from the fast pace of daily life. Daily sensory stimulation of colors through flowers and foliage add beauty and grace to the living environment, to our eyes and to our general well being.
Flowers attract birds and butterflies, bringing harmony and a blending of natural elements. A positive environment enabling the blending of all living things is our conscious effort to creating a beautified peaceful existence, the garden.
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Echinacea (coneflowers ) for instance have seeds in their spent blooms. Rather than deadheading all the spent blooms in the fall season, we can leave the seeds to provide winter food for finches and other birds. Echinacea of all flowers are a strong attraction to butterflies. Rudbeckia Indian Summer bloom all season long and are long-lived and hardy. They also attract birds and butterflies with their deep yellow colour.
The bird bath provides a tranquil imagery of shimmering water reflections as the element of sun plays with the water element . Provision of water for quenching the thirst of birds and small animals is the gardener’s offering to the living creatures in the Vastu designed Canadian garden. The birdbath surrounded by honey suckle vines also attract butterflies and hummingbirds. The broad Hosta leaves provide shade from the sun and shelter from a rainstorm for many small garden animals like toads.
Petunias, Impatiens, Day Lilies and Roses blend their fragrance with Peonies and Chives which bloom together. The elements of open space and air allows the sun’s light to give natural dramatic light while the wind gently sways the plants providing movement and sound like a floral dance and musical episode.
A peaceful statue of an angel alongside miniature yellow roses offers a still moment for contemplation. There is the great godly presence existing within even the smallest living worlds.
The sun’s warmth and radiance energises the red poppy to slowly open and give birth to your garden
while a hanging planter with Lemon Nemesia hybrid welcomes one to enter your home.
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