Do you know how to calculate the area in a dress circle of Gunter Grass ? Beth Bennett ’s 8th grade mathematics students can ! Her urban garden in Columbus , Ohio is both lovely , and educational !
" My garden , Bruck Border , get down in the early leap of 2014 . My previous gardens tended to be informal with constitutional shaped border in spacious tidy sum . But my new 113 - year - old house in an urban neighborhood challenged my previous way of mentation . I removed nearly everything from my tiny deal and created geometrical beds ( as a math instructor I totally nerded out with the computation ) satiate with cozy plantings . My swain cerebrate I was loopy when I insist on a " circuit grass " but he is proud of with the result . I look forward to observing this garden as it matures and to its continual tweaking . I have included a picture like a shot after the creative activity of the " circle grass , " 15 months ago . I enjoy the coup d’oeil into others ' garden every morning !
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This sunny corner is filled with Russian sage, sea holly, shasta daisies, a Korean spice viburnum and preying mantises.
I love the see through quality of Verbena bonariensis and even though it didn’t over winter last year I couldn’t imagine Bruck Border without it. The drumstick allium are peaking and Lavender ‘Phenomenal’ is happy in its second growing season. The silver fuzziness of the lamb’s ear is fun and adds to my favorite color combo-purple and silver.
This side of the circle grass is shaded by the neighbor’s river birch and is filled with oakleaf hydrangeas, hostas, hellebores, heucheras, ferns, astilbe, boxwood, and a Cornus kousa. I feel so fortunate that this lovely brick pathway was here when I moved into this home. Keeping the weeds out of the cracks, that’s another story.
The main colors in Bruck Border are purple and silver with a splash of orange and gold.
15 months ago, and yes I made my 8th graders calculate the area of the “circle grass” and the area of the planting beds. I only got a few eye rolls.
