All morning bathed in a dovelike brooding. . . .*
We woke up yesterday morning to heavy fog.
Our huge, antique TV dish was recently replaced with a much smaller one, but it was still on the back lawn awaiting pick up.
In the fog, from the upstairs porch, it looked like we’d had a space visitor.
I went out about 7:00 a.m. and took these naturally soft-focused pictures.
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*by Mark Jarman, from “A.M. Fog.”
1. Looking north, down the lower lawn.
2. Justicia brandegeena in lower right corner.
3. Looking south from center steps.
4. Looking south, down the lower lawn.
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7. Wild trees and vines emerge from the clipped bougainvillea hedge.
8. Brugmansia or angel’s trumpet on right. Pink penta in front.
9. Looking back to the north.
11. Variegated weeping fig with Eranthemum nervosum in foreground.
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13. Kniphofia uvaria.
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16. Looking north.
17. At the south end of the lawn.
18. Looking northwest.
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20. Walking east to the vegetable garden.
21. The cutting garden.
22. Looking to the upper lawn.
23. Looking north from upper lawn.
24. Looking south from upper lawn.
25. Descending the center steps, looking south.
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27. The center steps from lower lawn (looking south).
28. Starting back up the steps, looking north. Stachytarpheta in front.
29. Stachytarpheta, a purple crotin (?), Eranthemum nervosum, and a large variegated ginger.
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31. 8:00 a.m. The fog has mostly lifted.
enclos*ure 
wow !!
Thanks!
Today is the opposite — partly cloudy but very clear.
Oh well, either way your garden looks lovely !!!
Such a pleasure walking through your fog-ridden garden.
Thanks for visiting!
Hahaha….I thought the dish was a concrete vessel of some sort which looks awesome laying there!!:)
What a good idea. I was really trying to think of a way to make a garden ornament out of it. Maybe it could be coated with concrete (or clay) and become a huge bowl. (But, I think the embassy wants to auction it for scrap.)
Such romantic images! There is something magical and mysterious about a fog enshrouded garden. Feels like there are more garden rooms beyond – right?
This is pretty much the whole garden, except for a small area north of the lawn, around the big acacia tree, and the driveway area. The fog does create mystery though — and softens all the colors.
I love what fog can do to the landscape. I also love that terra cotta pot in one of your photos. Lovely!
Thanks!
Nothing makes a garden more beautiful than fog! Your bougainvillea hedge reminds me that I was just reading about Bougainville (who discovered the plant). He was one of Montcalm’s officers at the famed battle for Canada on the Plains of Abraham, among other things. And Capt. Cook was with Gen. Wolfe on the English side of the engagement. A little quirk of history; two famous explorers who were both there but they were not the main event!
Interesting! I should read something about Bougainville given that I have lived with so many of his namesake vines for so many years.