Roses, I got the same E-mail thing as you did when I followed the link. I just tried it again and what it says is that it is unavailable. Here is a pic from last years show.
Its Spring!
I love the Rawlings Conservatory and think it is a great place to visit if you live close. It is small but very nice. Takes us about an hour or a little more to get there and well worth the trip. Because it is small and has several benches in each room you can sit talk and enjoy, move around at a slow pace. It was a great trip for my Parents that couldn't do a bigger conservatory and my friend that also has limited mobility. Nice if you have children as it isn't very busy (we do go weekdays) last time we visited there was a young family with a couple of small girls. They were in the palm house for a long time and the girls were just playing on the paths while the parents sat and talked on one of the benches. It was a dreary cold rainy day and I was thinking what a nice outing for the girls. Here is a close up of that bed.
These are from their Spring Show in 2007
Crown Imperial
A blooming arch of Passifloras
Some beautiful Camellias...
hope more of my CI bloom this year... only 2 of them did last year.. I have to find out what kind of fertilizer they like... I read if they don't get the right food they will bloom every other year... they sure smell bad.. but look pretty!
A corner of their Orchid Room
nice drooling pics Gita!!!
A view of their Dessert House.
There is just SO much to see!
wow how cool
I wanted to show you some of the perennials we have at this time at Home depot....
These are all in deep, 8"pots and cost $5.97.
1-Blister Cress
Took my camera to work today (Easter Sunday--the store was DEAD!) and took some pictures during my lunch hour.
Next--Bog Rosemary--I think this was the last one left....
Creeping Flox--assorted colors...
Leopard's Bane
Lithodora--"Grace Ward"....
Lithodora--"Heavenly Blue"
Rock Cress...
Silene---
Stonecrop---"angelina"
Thrift.....
Wormwood--"Silver Mound"....
Any of these on your "Must Have" list---get Thee to a HD in your area.....SOON!
These are in very large and deep 8" pots.
Gita
Great pics of Rawlings Conservatory spring show, Gita and Holly! I think it would be well worth a trek.
Well, it has been a while since I've seen any wormwood available. I used to grow that interplanted with a lavender hedge--it was lovely but the wormwood goes to seed quickly after flowering so keeping it from flowering was a continous pruning job. I'll have to get over to Home Depot and take a look. That rock cress--another name for soapwort??
My Leopard's Bane opened up this weekend!! They were so slow to emerge this year because they were under so much snow in an area that was last to melt. They usually are the first things to bloom in my yard--ahead of daffodils.
that rock cress looks nice.. so many things you bought.. I never heard of
:)
I am doing the Happy Dance all around the yard. I finally have a reticulated iris that bloomed. YEAH
I have wanted them for years I bought a few from a catalog several years ago and they never did come up for me then I picked up a big bag of them at a local swap. But the next year none of them bloomed and most of them didn't come back up. Then last year I moved the only one I had to a new location and it didn't do much no blooms and no new growth. Then this year I noticed that there was a little new growth showing and yesterday it was in bloom. Doing the Happy Dance again.
Pictures will be posted later.
:::clapping::::
onewish--
I did not buy these perennials! I just took pictures of them during my lunch hour at my HD.
Wanted to show you all what is available.
LOL.. you got me
Here it is I'm so happy!
ooohh I like that color!!!
Va Blue Bells.
Some new daffs
Another
nice Holly!!!
Still having major frog choruses every night. I hope this means a really good spawning and growing year for frogs and toads
Last night was the first we heard or peepers, sounded like a regular serenade. Should have left the flats out over night, we had a nice soft shower in the >40s. Ric
How's this for a spring picture?
Camera looking up through the weeping cherry
That is just beautiful Ladyg, Ric and I drove past a place today that had pink crab apples, red buds and another pink tree of some kind lining their drive. It was just beautiful with the 3 different pinks. Funny I was thinking they shouldn't look so good all together but they really did.
Holly, those a pretty daffs, do you know the name?
Not entirely sure if I can name them but I will look at my notes from last fall.