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Chanticleer’s Ruin Garden has a fairy communicative quality. It’s not an existent ruin but was built successful 1999 connected the tract of 1 of the archetypal houses connected the property. Plants creep up crumbling walls and look from cracked paving, ghostly faces look successful pools of water, and a sarcophagus-like array hulks successful the eating room. It gives maine Spirited Away vibes.
This is Part 8 of my sojourn to Chanticleer during the Philadelphia Area Fling last September.
Let’s commencement successful the library, which you participate done a wide doorway from the Gravel Garden.
Near the fireplace, agaves adorn the chromatic partition similar greenish boutonnieres connected a lapel.
Stone books, including 1 impressed with acorns, prevarication unfastened to the elements, waiting to beryllium read.
Moss, 1 is titled. A leafy look stares up astatine you.
Masonry, reads another.
Ex Libris — from whose library, I wonder?
Leaves of books, works leaves, what we permission behind…it’s each getting mixed up.
A bucket elevator concatenation planted with tiny succulents hangs from a timber post. In the corner, a weeping Norway spruce seems to skulk into the country similar a greenish ghost.
The concatenation makes a charming planter.
Waterfalling plants successful the small buckets
Pretty Passiflora citrina
Hydrangea successful bloom
And present we travel to those marble faces successful the water.
They don’t look spooky to me. Rather peaceful, floating there.
The adjacent country is the eating hall, with a agelong achromatic table–actually a reflective pool–that resembles a polished coffin.
Question people paving?
Tillandsias connected the mantle
Loree of Danger Garden precocious wrote that she actively disliked the large achromatic table. I consciousness much ambiguous astir it. It adds a spookier constituent to the ruin, which I appreciate.
I would similar to spot h2o plants increasing successful it.
The unfastened doorways and windows of the ruin framework glimpses of the Gravel Garden beyond.
Stone acorns clump nether oak saplings.
Outside the walls, the plot afloat takes clasp again.
A fewer much ghostly weeping Norway spruces glide done a mini-meadow of prairie dropseed.
And a disembodied look snoozes successful the grasses.
Up next: Exploring Bell’s Woodland and on Bell’s Run Creek. For a look backmost astatine Chanticleer’s meadowy Gravel Garden, click here:
To work astir my past visits to Chanticleer’s Ruin Garden, travel these links:
- A plot rising from ruin astatine Chanticleer, October 2021
- Chanticleer’s eerie, mysterious Ruin Garden, June 2016
- Ruin & Gravel Garden, July 2008
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