This garden has twinkling lights year round. Blogfinger photo July, 2014. ©
ROY ORBISON
Archive for the ‘Ocean Grove gardens’ Category
Gardens in the Grove: At Night
Posted in Gardening in Ocean Grove, Ocean Grove gardens, tagged Ocean Grove garden at night on February 15, 2026|
Lake Avenue hydrangea—-autumn.
Posted in Ocean Grove gardens, tagged Hydrangea in Ocean Grove on May 31, 2025|
Ocean Grove at Wesley Lake. Twilight. September 21. 2018. Paul Goldfinger photo. Click once to enlarge.
GALLAHADS: “Gone”
Modern OG history—2015. Lake Avenue. Some NERP planners called it a “paper street.” Next, eminent domain?
Posted in Ocean Grove gardens, Ocean Grove lifestyle, Ocean Grove photographs, Photography: Ocean Grove Gallery, tagged Lake Avenue Ocean Grove, North End Redevelopment Plan, Sharkey Bonano on Blogfinger on April 1, 2025| 4 Comments »
Ocean Grove near the North End Redevelopment Zone. April 26, 2015. Paul Goldfinger photo. Click to enlarge
Alicia Keys: 121212. The Concert For Sandy Relief. “Empire State of Mind.” Maybe we can borrow some of this state of mind.
Lake Avenue Promenade—-one of the Grove’s loveliest places to take a walk.
Posted in Ocean Grove Gallery, Ocean Grove gardens, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, tagged Gardens in Ocean Grove, Lake Avenue in Ocean Grove, Wesley Lake on May 20, 2024| 1 Comment »
Lake Avenue in Ocean Grove. Paul Goldfinger photo . Click to enlarge.
CINDY SCOTT from her album Major to Minor
“…they bring the flowers that bloom in May.” *
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Ocean Grove gardens, Ocean Grove lifestyles, Ocean Grove storm stories, Photograph by Eileen Goldfinger, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, tagged Ocean Grove tulips, Pennies from heaven in the Grove on April 18, 2022|
A rainy May day in Ocean Grove. Photograph of parrot tulips by Eileen Goldfinger and Paul Goldfinger © 5/5/17 Blogfinger.net Click for the “Jack and the Beanstalk” effect. Title lyric quote* from “April Showers.”
“Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers
If you want the things you love
You must have showers
So when you hear it thunder
Don’t run under a tree
There’ll be pennies from heaven
For you and me”
BILLIE HOLIDAY From the album: Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia. “Pennies from Heaven” is from the 1936 movie of the same name. Music by Arthur Johnston; words by Johnny Burke. First performed in the film by Bing Crosby.
April in the Grove.
Posted in Ocean Grove gardens, Ocean Grove lifestyles, tagged Forsythia, OCEAN GROVE SPRINGTIME on April 8, 2022|
Founders’ Park. April 24, 2018. Paul Goldfinger ©. Click to enlarge. The yellow forsythia are reliable markers of the arrival of spring. The flowers come before the leaves.
ART GARFUNKEL:
The most photographed place in Ocean Grove…
Posted in Fine art photography at Blogfinger, Ocean Grove feature article, Ocean Grove gardens, Ocean Grove historical preservation, Ocean Grove memorabilia, Photographic Gallery: Ocean Grove, Photography in America, Photography in New Jersey, Photography show and tell on Blogfinger, tagged Ocean Grove summer tents on July 14, 2021|
Summer tents. August 22, 2015. © By Paul Goldfinger. Click to enlarge.
Paul Goldfinger, Editor, Blogfinger.net
The OG summer tents are sought after by painters, photographers, tourists, renters, historians, strollers, bikers, and others. Our tents are unique. From a photographer’s point of view, we look for new ways of seeing the tents; we try to be creative with lighting and composition. It’s not easy to come up with something different, but that is what we require at this Ocean Grove website where photography is used more than words to describe our town.
When I submitted a “plain vanilla” portrait of the tents for the book “New Jersey 24/7” I was surprised that the image was one of the winners, but then I realized that those of us who live here are a bit jaded, like New Yorkers who take the Empire State Building for granted.
But for you OG photographers, Blogfinger will continue looking for fresh ways of seeing our historic and beautiful tents.
ADAM LEVINE “No One Else Like You .” From the film Begin Again
Hydrangea on Asbury Avenue.
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Ocean Grove gardens, Ocean Grove nocturnal photography, tagged Hydrangea on Asbury Avenue on July 14, 2020|
Hydrangea on Asbury Avenue. Ocean Grove. July 13, 2020. Paul Goldfinger photo © Click to enlarge.
AIR SUPPLY:
“Even the nights are better
Now that we’re here together
Even the nights are better
Since I found you, oh
Even the days are brighter
When someone you love’s beside ya
Even the nights are better
Since I found you..”
Now that we’re here together
Even the nights are better
Since I found you, oh
Even the days are brighter
When someone you love’s beside ya
Even the nights are better
Since I found you..”
Gardens in the Grove: Autumn approaches and gardens look better.
Posted in Ocean Grove gardens, tagged Gardens in the Grove on September 15, 2019|
Eileen tends her OG garden during a spectacular September day. Paul Goldfinger iPhone photo. Look for the rainbows. Click to enlarge. ©
AL JOLSON
Gardens in the Grove: Southside.
Posted in Ocean Grove gardens, tagged ocean grove gardens on July 11, 2019|
Southside Ocean Grove. Paul Goldfinger © 7/10/19 Click to enlarge
THOMAS HAMPSON WITH THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. From Cole Porter Night and Day.
What are the ingredients that make OG special: British car shows or small, lovely gardens? Let’s keep the best.
Posted in Ocean Grove gardens, tagged roses in Ocean Grove on May 31, 2018|
Walkway garden on Heck Avenue. May 31, 2018. Blogfinger photograph. © Click to enlarge.
A side yard along Delaware Avenue. June 1, 2018. Blogfinger photo
ISABELLE FONTAINE “Roses of Picardy” with the Hot Club of San Francisco.
Autumn garden in the Grove
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Ocean Grove gardens, tagged Gardens in Ocean Grove on September 22, 2017|
Autumn begins today, September 22, 2017. Note how the yellow flowers at the right edge match the yellow street stripes. Blogfinger photo © Click to enlarge
PINK MARTINI: “The Gardens of Sampson and Beasley”
Record breaking hibiscus in Eileen’s garden explodes with blooms (8)
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Ocean Grove gardens, tagged Flowers in the Grove on September 1, 2017|
Eileen’s hibiscus. Ocean Grove garden. August 31, 2017. Eileen’s photo ©
Multiple blooms erupt at end of August, 2017. Eileen’s photo. ©
By Eileen Goldfinger, house and garden editor @Blogfinger
Eileen’s secret recipe for her large potted hibiscus plant: She has brought it into the house each of the last 4 winters, before the frost, placing it in a sunny window. This is a tropical plant, and frost will kill it. It goes dormant in the winter, so it requires just light watering.
This spring, she took it outside into the rear garden where it gets partial sun, especially in the afternoon. Hibiscus needs sun. Then she removed it from the pot and pruned off one-third of the roots. After that, she replaced the potting soil and added timed release fertilizer (“Osmocote”). Then she placed it into the soil and pruned back the branches by a third. Watering should be light, weekly, and with weekly liquid fertilizer ” Organic Bloom” by Espoma.
All summer it has bloomed more than usual, and the blooms only last one day. Then, during the last week of August, the plant erupted with a record-breaking (for our garden) 8 simultaneous blooms occurring at one remarkable point.
MAKAHA SONS OF NI’IHAU “I’ll Remember You.”