Time for Weather
The Time for Weather Garden, a place to enjoy seasonal flowers, tell the time, and use instruments to measure and observe weather conditions was installed in the spring of 2003. The rainbow section consists of an arched raised bed planted in sections with perennials the colors of the rainbow. Cotton is planted on one side of the bed to simulate clouds and provide an up close look at this Worth County crop. The time section features an analemmatic (human interactive) sundial. The weather station contains observation instruments -- rain gauge, giant thermometer, and weather vane -- which provide for scientific study. A bench nestles under a large metal arch (playground ball arch damaged during installation but suitable for this purpose) painted to resemble a rainbow. Gold lantana is planted at the sides of the arch to suggest “pots of gold.”
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Members of the WCHS Visual Arts class designed the stained glass/ mosaic numeral stones for a timeline.
Care has been taken to ensure that plants of each color will be in bloom through the entire growing season with an emphasis on native plants when possible.
Plant List
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Red |
Amaryllis |
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Orange |
Hamelia patens (Firebush) |
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Yellow |
Daffodil |
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Blue |
Salvia azurea (Blue Sage) |
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Purple |
Iris |
