Week before last I made a quick trip to Bay Creek Golf Resort in Cape Charles, VA to take some photos of a new golf home listing there and was excited to see that the “Spring Bloomers” show is well underway. It’s my favorite time of the year at Bay Creek, an amazing golf community built along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay featuring show quality landscaping, the time when the profusion of vibrant colors there is just absolutely wonderful, total eye candy. The color begins with a large sculpted bed of red annuals at the entry sign and just keeps on going from there, on and on and on, so just when you think you’ve seen everything, something new turns up as you round a corner. Living in a home in one of the 10 little villages at Bay Creek in the spring is sort of like being at the Philadelphia International Flower Show, gorgeous bloomers everywhere you turn, the ultimate floral color palette ( FYI, the 2012 Philadelphia Flower Show theme is “Hawaii, Islands of Aloha”, I’m sure it will be spectacular ! www.theflowershow.com )
The drive from the entrance towards the gatehouse is punctuated by a dramatic water feature, a striking, nearly lifesize bronze sculpture of a small boat with a waterman, his son and their Labrador dog. This close knit group, shown pulling in crab pots, portrays a centuries old scene of a lifestyle of working the waters along the Chesapeake Bay, crabbing in spring and summer, oystering in fall and winter. Landscaped with grasses and accented by a channel marker with an osprey nest atop, this is my very favorite Bay Creek design, it just feels so “Eastern Shore Virginia” as you pass by, a vivid reminder and a tip-of-the-hat to the Shore’s long coastal traditions.
Once through the gate, the full force of the landscaping is accomplished by having single lane, one way roads with wide medians dividing the two lanes, the medians actually being miles of landscaped beds planted with dozens and dozens of varieties of trees together with understory designs of perennial shrubs, flowers and ground covers. The landward side of each lane is bordered with long rows of trees, pin oaks, pines, crape myrtles and magnolias to name just a few, most of which which are surrounded by their own colorful beds including a long row of huge and absolutely gorgeous peoneys just beyond the gatehouse. Additional flower power throughout is provided by the numerous varieties of bulbs and annuals. The superstars of spring, the azaleas and camillias, there seemingly by the thousands, just doing their thing, blooming away, a riot of hot pinks and bright lavendars, splashes of brilliant orange here and candy apple reds there, everything in lovely contrast to the various hues and textures of green foliages. And beyond it all, the cool blues of the Chesapeake Bay and sugary white sands of its beaches complete the delightful rainbow of colors that greet Bay Creek’s homeowners every spring. So, if a Chesapeake Bay home offering a golf, beach and marina lifestyle surrounded by such natural beauty appeals to you, check out our website, www.blueheronva.com for currently available properties.
(Posted by Marlene Cree, licensed Virginia agent with Blue Heron Realty Co., 7134 Wilsonia Neck Dr., Machipongo, VA)
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