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These Photo Gallery pictures make their first appearance on the What's New
page,
and are moved to the Photo Gallery pages when NEW STUFF Happens
in the Crooked Garden. There are multiple pages in the Photo Gallery,
and a lot to see.
4.06.08
A new plaque has been placed in front of the entrance statue recognizing
the generous donations of our Pelican Preserve residents and visitors.
4.01.08
Picnic in the Pergola
The
adjustable picnic benches in the pergola came in very handy in the late
afternoon on March 20, 2008.
A little rain shower would not dampen Shirley and Duane Acker's 56th wedding
anniversary celebration, as they
enjoyed the company of their friends among the surroundings of the beautiful
crooked Garden.
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Pictured left to right and front to rear: Shirley & Duane Acker, Paul & Joan
Mattson, and Joyce & Jim Mortensen.
3.30.08
The Crooked Garden has a new entrance statue
It took us over a year of searching, but we finally found our perfect garden
entrance statue. We found this Monarch butterfly statue
at the Ornamental Columns and Statues business in South Fort
Myers, Florida. Yes, this is the butterfly garden...look at the
butterfly statue!
Special Crooked Garden projects engineer, Bob Weil, poses behind the new statue
that he had just helped finish staining.
Our new garden statue looks more like a Monarch butterfly now, thanks to the
recommendations of many resident sidewalk superintendents.
3.17.08
CROOKED GARDEN VISITOR: Noted
lepidopterist and prolific writer, Robert M. Pyle, Ph.D.
3.16.08
The Crooked Garden has a new paved entrance
Thank you WCI leadership (WCI is the luxury homebuilder for Pelican
Preserve community), for providing us with a supply of pavers from the old golf
clubhouse floor when it was demolished. The pavers were delivered to the Crooked
Garden entrance early Thursday morning, March 13th, and by 3:30 PM that day, the
entrance path was completed.
A special THANKS goes to Pelican Preserve resident, Nate Jensen
for his paver installation knowledge, along with the hard physical labor in
installing this wonderful path.
Nate Jensen (Master Paver Layer), and Jim Price (Crooked Garden Curator)
installing the pavers to the Crooked Garden entrance.
3.01.08
There are now four beautiful teak benches adorning our Crooked Garden.
Thank you Avril Smoliniski & Felix Llamido, Carol and Larry Hatch, Patti &
Bill van der Have, and Marge & Al Muratore for sponsoring these fine
garden seats.
Beautiful weatherproof name plaques will soon replace these laminated signs.
2.22.08
New Crooked Garden sign
Our Crooked Garden has a new sign hanging from the arbor entrance thanks to
master carpenter, Larry Hatch.
What a wonderful way to show our friends and visitors the name of our butterfly
garden.
Thanks Larry!
2.22.08 and
UPDATED on 5.15.10
New really tall Host plant in the Crooked Garden
STRANGLER
FIG
Ficus aurea
The
Strangler Fig
often starts it's life in the leaf
bases of palms, and may eventually (if left unchecked) overtake and kill the
palm. The Strangler fig is a
host plant for the Ruddy Daggerwing butterfly,
and it's fruit provides food for many wildlife and bird species.
There are Strangler Figs growing in many palm trees around the yards in Florida,
and the Strangler Fig is a Florida native plant.
The
photo (above left), is how the two trees looked when we they were purchased
together, and planted in February 2008. The photo on the right was taken in
September 2009. Now the Strangler Fig provides a nice shady rest area along the
outside path just before the entrance to the Crooked Garden.
CABBAGE PALM
Sabal Palmetto
The cabbage
palm is Florida's official state tree.
Cabbage palm, or sabal palm, can be found in several Florida ecosystems,
including upland hardwoods, flatwoods, and tropical hammocks. Because it
tolerates high water tables, it can also grow well in swamps, wet prairie, and
coastal marshes. It may occur as single trees or groves of palms and it is also
frequently planted in urban areas.
2.10.08
Thanks to an "expert woodworking team" of Pelican Preserve
residents, There is now an Entrance Arbor to the Crooked Garden:
The "expert woodworking team" of Pelican Preserve
residents working on this project.
(L-R) Larry Hatch, Steve Pinsky, Jim Bohn, Nate Jensen, and Jim Price (taking
photo)
The Entrance Arbor team taking advantage of our woodworking shop to design and
cut out the
intricate details of the project.
The Arbor team preparing to place the top piece on the structure.
(L-R) Nate Jensen, Steve Pinsky, Larry Hatch, Jim Bohn, and Jim Price