Inspiration found is always welcomed, and today there are so many sources of insight and revelation. One though outshines all others for insight and illumination. That source is Nature.
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| Florida Green Roof and Wildflower Haiku plant, Coral Bean, Erythrina herbacea Drought, salt and heat tolerant. Hummingbird plant |
Hands down Nature teaches me more about color, texture, geometry, sustainability, art, music, light, green roofs, haiku, life and the cosmos than any YouTube video, internet site, book or podcast.
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| Florida Green Roof and Wildflower Haiku plant, Prickly Pear Cactus, Opuntia humifusa Very drought tolerant, great coastal green roof plant for habitat and pollinators |
For millennia, haiku poets have used the term 'Ginkgo Walks' for inspiration found when walking with Nature.
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| Florida Green Roof and Wildflower Haiku plant, Fleabane, Erigeron app. Tolerates wet and dry soils, wind and heat tolerant, excellent pollinator plant |
A Ginkgo Walk is a stroll through the yard or local park. A Ginkgo Walk can be a hike into the swamp, forest, glades, beach or even along a landscaped avenue. The point of a Ginkgo Walk is open our ears, eyes and senses to ever changing muses Mother Nature is sharing with us.
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| Florida Green Roof and Wildflower Haiku plant, Blanketflower, Gaillardia puchella Amazing hardy green roof plant, tolerating salt, wind, heat and other environmental challenges |
I've designed successful drought and salt tolerant green roofs around the world and the reference I first turn to for plant selection are local Ginkgo Walks around the construction site and surrounding landscapes.
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| Florida Green Roof and Wildflower Haiku plant, Purple Coneflower, Echinacea purpurea Hardy, drought tolerant green roof plant that pollinators LOVE! |
Ginkgo Walks are also my primary haiku, senryu and poetry inspiration. Mother Nature, acompained by breezes, bees and birds, sweetly sings out verse as I walk under sun and clouds.
Ginkgo Walks are not only valuable for inspiration but too provide mental and physical healing, clearing clutter from our minds and muscles.
Looking for inspiration for a sustainability project, poem or whatever your life needs? Ginkgo Walks can provide you with amazing awakenings!
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| Florida Green Roof and Wildflower Haiku plant, Black Eye Susan, Rudbeckia hirta Stunning rooftop bloomer that will flower all summer and call pollinators for miles around |
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