Last week I had the privilege of spending the day in Miami, Florida at the Costa Farms amazing trial garden. This year they have expanded to 2 acres of stunning blooms that will be coming to a garden center near you in 2012. In the slide show below I share some of my favorite captures from my visit.
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This Collection is one of my favorites: It is part of the Long Life Annuals Collection. Watch for them in your garden center 2012. I’ve got dibs on the Lantana and zinnia combos!
This is the Ball : Durango Flame French Marigold
I think my favorite Fertilize Friday / Flaunt Your Blooms shares that I participate in on my garden friend Glenda’s site take place in the winter. In the summer it is hard to decide which bloom I’ll pick from the garden to talk about. In the winter when the garden is covered with snow it is fun to think Fertilize Friday and share the first blooms that come to mind from summer past.
This Gaillardia was a AAS Award Winning Seed in 2010 and a winner in my garden and greenhouse in 2011. I grew this bloom featured in the image above from seed. You can imaging my excitement to see this beauty in many of the gardens I visited this past summer.
This African Bush Daisy dances with the shrubs in my new landscape around the greenhouse. I’m hoping the six plants I moved into the greenhouse make it so they can do the garden dance in 2012. This beauty is from Costa Farms.
This is my Friday Flaunt for Friday 13. Friday was ‘bad luck’ because I was too busy to post and this is going live on early Monday. I hope you will take the time to visit my dear friend Glenda and her amazing growing year-round , interior and garden shares.
This was one of my favorite images captured during the Subaru at Greensgrow Farm event this past Autumn. The color of this healthy succulent only goes to show that this plant species can be festive anytime of year. I’m loving the show this all natural container is putting on; How about you?
View more of my images from Subaru Fall Festival at Greensgrow Farm in Philadelipha on my Flickr account.
Now that my garden has been put to rest for the winter, I’ve been sorting through my images and cleaning up my files on my office P.C. hard drive. I can’t stress enough the importance of doing a back up of images every few months. I’m thankful I’ve not had experienced losing 1,000′s of images and documents due to a hard drive crash. I’m totally knocking on wood right now! Cleaning up and backing up the hard drive can be a fun ‘flip’ through memories. I just found this totally dreamy shot of P.Allen Smiths garden at sunset from a visit I have back in April.
Sunset at Moss Mountain Retreat in Little Rock at the P.Allen Smith Garden 2 Blog Event
Whens the last time you did a back up on your computer?!
While in Little Rock for the Garden2Blog event with P.Allen Smith I was asked to share a quick tip about gardening. The first thing that came to mind was something super easy and fun for all ages to grow.
You don’t need soil, just a little bit of love to grow yummy sprouts in your kitchen or garden. I share how-to tips at this blog entry all about my first try at growing sprouts.
