Northeast Gardening: Boston Flower Show March 13-17, 3 by gardenmart

gardenmart wrote:
some more. As the twig is bent, the tree is inclined. The first picture is of the student exhibitors from Lunenburg High School in Lunenburg, MA. They are participants in the school's horticulture program and the lady on the right {oops! on the other left!} in the peach sweater is their teacher. They had 25 exhibits entered including 3/4's of our hanging basket entries. Champion among them were two streptocarpus they had raised from cuttings. next is a view of the Amateur Horticulture exhibit room looking down the cactus and succulent bench. the fourth picture is of Climbing Onions. These provided our giant #1 FAQ of the whole show. and the answers are: 1. no, it is not an onion. succulent related to hyacinths. 2. no, it is not edible. In fact, like digitalis, it has heart stimulant compounds that can kill in sufficient amounts. 3. South Africa. 4. A couple of these exhibits came from Logee's nursery in CT and you can get them online. We must have answered all 4 of these questions about a million times over the course of the show, and I only worked three whole days in the exhibit hall.
The last picture is of one of our newest exhibitors. He works in the Seaport World Trade Center and repeatedly came through our exhibits for the last three years and we would talk plants with him and he said he had some nice ones. We urged him to bring them on down and this year he did! He is standing next to his Jade plant 'Gollum' that got a blue ribbon first time out!
Martha


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