The Monday Garden, January 9,2005, Issue 146
Eco-gardening at its best
A couple of days ago, I came across this file that I hadn’t gotten around to sorting yet of photos were taken in the Hoyt Street Alley on November 1, 2004. It’s hard for me to recall the sensory experience of other seasons, so when I come unexpectedly across a photo file from another time of the year, it’s amazing to me that such other time actually existed and that I was there.
These photos recalled for me the luscious colors of fall, so I thought they’d make a good mid-winter break.
picture: detail of the glorious colors of the delightful infant native chokecherry, Hoyt Street Alley Stamford CT November 1, 2004
picture :under the native black locust, leaves of the locust, and the neighboring sycamore, red oak, and Norway maple mix with the green of the wild onions, a noxious weed that’s a major annoyance to local gardeners. Hoyt Street Alley Stamford CT November 1, 2004
picture: walking east on Hoyt Street Alley, you can just make out the spire of the first Presbyterian Church in the distance. Hoyt Street Alley Stamford CT November 1, 2004. You can see some of the branches of the large sycamore at the top left in the very front and the trunk of the large red oak is to the right.
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picture 1: the red hips of the invasive alien rosa mulitflora with the still green rosa foliage and shiny green leaves of a mulberry. Hoyt Street Alley Stamford CT November 1, 2004
Picture 2: the woodbine climbs a telephone pole. Hoyt Street Alley Stamford CT November 1, 2004
Picture 3: late turning poison ivy; most of the poison ivy in the Alley lost their leaves two weeks ago. Hoyt Street Alley Stamford CT November 1, 2004
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pictures: yellow mulberry leaves, red leaves of a young red oak who’s a child of the big red oak up the alley, and the grey striped trunk of an ailanthus, a major Asian invader. Hoyt Street Alley Stamford CT November 1, 2004
picture: the little choke cherry, with still green Norway maple and rosa mulitflora leaves in the background. Hoyt Street Alley Stamford CT November 1, 2004
picture: the last leaf of a native dogwood, Cornus florida, Hoyt Street Alley Stamford CT November 1, 2004. This year’s red berries have all been munched up by the squirrels and birds but next year’s buds are already growing.
picture: an imported Cornus Kousa dogwood from Asia in full fall color. As you can see, the Kousa holds its leaves longer than the American. The squirrels are partial to the fruit and buds of both dogwoods. Hoyt Street Alley Stamford CT November 1, 2004
picture: the horribly invasive but beautiful Asian porcelainberry, with shiny mulberry leaves in the upper left. Hoyt Street Alley Stamford CT November 1, 2004
Picture: last leaves of the invasive alien Indian Bittersweet. Hoyt Street Alley Stamford CT November 1, 2004
Photo credits: Sue Sweeney
© Sue Sweeney 2005