One night each year, Joy Creek throws a party to celebrate its wonderful customers and to share the sights and scenes that twilight brings to the gardens.
We used my ‘Spinnaker’ banners to mark a few spots where the lighting effects seemed especially dramatic.
Monica tied in all sorts of festive streamers and little brass bells.
Many grasses wore halos of light for the occasion.
People wandered or broke into small groups to chat and exclaim
while the music of the Brian Christopher Jazz Quartet lured many to simply sit and listen (though their strains could be heard throughout the gardens)
And there were treats, of course. If you live anywhere in the area, do yourself a favor and put this on your calendar when it rolls around next year.
What a fun evening! I was sorry to miss it, summers are always so busy…but as you say, maybe next year!
Seems like August is the month for cramming in everything we intended to do all summer.
You have a GREAT workplace!
Don’t I know it!
I’m not sure what you see that looks like Hibiscus. The vase held Hydrangea ‘Pink Diamond’, Japanese Maple foliage and a few sprigs of Persicaria ‘Firetail’ and Phygelius. In the little bowl with the biscotti is a Dahlia. Connie Hsnsen Garden in the fall…now there’s an idea.
We get a nice breeze in the evenings, so it was actually quite comfortable.
Thanks, Beth…wish you could have been there.
What a wonderful idea! I wish my favorite garden centers would do that here, but then we don’t have the same kind of light.
Our garden centers do a lot of entertaining, one way or another.
Enjoying twilight in a garden is a wonderful way to celebrate. Glad you had fun. Beautiful pictures Ricki.
It really does cast the grden in a whole new light.
Sounds like an enchanted evening. I’ll be watching for this next year!
Good excuse for a trip south…hope you make it!