Black plastic has always played quite a significant role in garden management hereabouts, the heavy duty kind sold for making silage clamps. Currently its holding the raised vegetable beds in stasis. I can't really claim that it's especially eco-friendly as its main purpose is to stop anything growing, but toad and newts and bugs and snails and such like do live under it, and it does do interesting things when it freezes, and the puddles which collect in it trap dead leaves and other litter.
It's held down by pieces of old roof slate and rocks, which the thrushes use as anvils to break the snails they find in abundance in the many neglected corners of the garden.
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More divine photos, Lucy. They are providing a glimpse into the secret life of winter-time plants.
The black plastic looks covered in white fur, a bit.
Beautiful...I wish I had more time to go out and explore my winter world a little bit! Blessings!
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Oh, wow!! Amazing and beautiful, another world unto itself! You have such a good eye, Lucy.
One thing about your photos -- they are never cliched! Gorgeous.
Amazing pictures as always Lucy. I wish I had even a half of your eye for taking these pictures. Sorry I haven't been keeping up lately I have let my poor blog sit with all of the notes from my 1st 2 trips of the malcontent tour project. Hopefully soon I will have something up to share. I hope your new year is off to an amazing start.
Who knew that black plastic could be so beautiful?
Wonderful captures, Lucy
tide pools in plastic! love it!
Such a wonderful sense of absolute intimacy with the subjects here. Beautiful as ever, these and those above.
Wow. Simply wonderful.
The first one with the brown wood underneath the frosty bark looks like something hatching.
It even seems to have an eye!
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