Bamboo forest and pond gardens at WynEden

During the Philadelphia-Area Fling successful precocious September, we toured Wayne Guymon’s WynEden successful Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. WynEden is an tremendous backstage plot astatine 9.5 acres, “with 4,000 antithetic plants and cultivars, 15,000 hostas, 7,000 Rhododendrons & Azaleas, 3 ponds, 3 streams and 5 acres of edited woodland,” according to Guymon’s website.

I headed down a sloping way to the little garden, wherever a ample pond — implicit with a bridge-accessible land — offers a picturesque view.

The time was soggy for bench-sitting, but this lichen-wallpapered seat with rain-flattened cochicums inactive makes a beauteous picture.

Nearby, a romanticist weeping willow frames a bluish shed.

Its roots luxuriate successful another, smaller pond made muddy by Tropical Storm Ophelia’s deluge.

Cattails don’t caput a small rain.

Neither bash willows.

And neither did I, really. The plot (and the Fling) was a invited flight from the vigor and drought of a searing Austin summer.

Another spot to beryllium connected a drier day

A chromatic lantern leans retired implicit the water, arsenic an orange-leaved cotinus (I think) echoes its posture.

A small spot of fall

A small spot more

A tiny dock connected the different broadside offers entree for feeding fish, perhaps, oregon launching a rowboat for a pond picnic? My romanticist imaginings are going now.

Behind the pond, a towering, wave-crested basal of bamboo seems to endanger to swamp visitors. I work that Wayne re-trenches astir it each twelvemonth to support the bamboo from spreading wherever helium doesn’t privation it. What a occupation that indispensable be!

Paths pb into the rustling bamboo forest, wherever a tiny circular pond — a reflector successful the world — reflects the tall, arching culms. It’s a magical space.

A ellipse of stumps offers a speech spot.

Emerging from the bamboo you spot an Asian-style zigzag span crossed the weeping willow pond.

Garden creation plays up the Asian theme.

The span and bamboo framework a romanticist scene.

Reflections successful the water

The zigzag bridge

There was overmuch much to spot astatine WynEden, but I spent each my clip successful the Asian pond garden. I did halt to respect this flowering shrub connected the mode backmost to the bus. On to the adjacent garden!

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