Living Walls

I am reveling in the warmth of the Isle of Enchantment (Isla del Encanto), Puerto Rico. What a delightful break away from the harsh winter weather up north.

Here, I am drawn to living walls – walls decorated with pendulous flowers, walls with vines growing up on them, weedy fences that hold a few surprises.

I am staying at a Raw Foods Institute that has its own organic gardens. That’s where I was wandering around early this morning. This protective wire wall kept a smaller garden safe from marauders and provided lots of vertical and horizontal climbing spaces for plants. The bluish tint reflects the ambient early morning light.

Wire wall around garden

Cucumber vines and a vine with small red flowers cover the outside of this wire wall:

Cucumber vines

Even more delicious were the sky blue morning glories spreading horizontally on the wire roof:

Blue morning glories

On the outskirts of the garden, I found this weedy looking fence, nothing spectacular, just another living wall:

weedy fence

When I looked more closely, though, I found a few things growing there – it may be various stages of the same fruit:

I’ll close with this picture of lavender flowers cascading down an invisible wall:

If spring won’t come to me (yet), I just have to look for it elsewhere…. Isla del Encanto.

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