I do not have a clearly delineated policy statement on what constitutes a quirky garden for the purposes of this blog.  The issue has been referred to the Rules Committee.

You can see my quandary as I await a definition from the committee.  For example, is this quirky?

Or is this quirky?

Maybe.  Or not.  I thought that it was when I took the photo, but I am not sure.  But I’m not ready for the ultimate decision, so here I post only what I am sure about.

I am sure that vertical gardens fit my sense of quirky.  Here are two:

And then there are green roofs.  Also known as living roofs or vegetated roofs.

The City tells us about them here:

I know of three.  First is the Eco House:

The second is on the cob house at the Northside Community Garden:

The third is around the corner from where I live, at the corner of Spruce and Los Angeles.

In addition, Berkeleyside showed us two not visible from the street, but worth cutting and pasting here:

I can’t tell from the street if this is a rooftop garden or a living roof.  I will err on the side of inclusion.

This brings us to containers in which we plant our plants, some of which are quirky:

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A Quirky Berkeley reader suggested one more that either is new or that I missed.  It is great:

I am amused.

Jay Jurisich is a quirky and clever man whom I met through soccer – my Rosalie and his Maddie.

He was struck by the trees at the North Berkeley branch of the Berkeley Public Library.  I can’t argue with him.  This is quirky.

I will try to come up with a workable working standard for garden quirk.  At the suggestion of a reader, I have ordered a used copy of Quirky Gardens by Jennifer Isaacs; maybe it will help.  For the time being I am happy with these.  They are quirking for me.

My friend is an avid gardener.  He especially loves delphiniums and dahlias and lilies and mums.  When I took the photos here to show him, he was reading a note from a mutual friend.  That mutual friend suggested that the gospel hymn “He Touched Me” might today have different connotations than it once had.  I said that I would look into it (and I did), but what did he think of these quirky gardens?