Plant and Video !

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I noticed berries on my a asparagus fern!

So this is what I planned to do!

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Schefflera aka Umbrella Plant In Bloom!

I have never seen one! Have you?

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Corn Plant In Bloom!

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I wanted to show you something you might not see 

that often! A corn plant in bloom!

 A friend of mine was the librarian at one of the libraries
close by. When she changed branches, she left many of
her plan. I took these pictures of one of them in bloom!

 I sent it to her and thought I would post it too.

Dracaena fragrans 

It has such a wonderful smell! I noticed it the moment I 

came in the door.

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Philly Flower Show Pictures!

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Many of you may know that I am normally busy at the Phila. Flower Show
and I was again this year.  I was there the whole 10 days of the show.  There
is no one to cover me at work while I'm away.  I have get as much done before

the show as I can and do a ton when I come back.

 This year's theme was Explore America.  It was a celebration of 100 years of the
National Parks.

This is the entrance of the show. 

My husband and I sat at the Phila. Cactus and Succulent Society booth. 

Baby at the booth!

 Photos of the booth.

The booth is educational and we answered questions about cactus and succulents 

More pictures.

We had over 100 examples of plants for people to see and as questions about.
We have info booklets to sell and info on are meetings.

 I saw this girl with these skates on while I was there.

 Baby and the buffalo.

 This stuff animal was there too!

The individual competition takes place in  The Hamilton Horticourt. 

 Orchids 

There are always a ton of beautiful orchids there to see.

People love taking picture of the show.

I took some close-ups of some of the flowers.

I think I might get into orchids this year!

Amoung the orchids I found this flower too!

Martha Stewart

I talked to her too!

 I won some ribbons.  Here are two.

 More pictures of  Hamilton Horticourt. 

Design section of the Flower Show

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NWGA Plant Swap!

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On July 18th the NWGA Plant Swap was held!  It is our largest annual event and
it is a member and community favorite. It was started as part of the Awbury Community
Garden Club event but it and other events migrated with the start of the Northwest Garden
Association. Gardeners from all over Philadelphia and it suburbs attend the swap! If you
are interested in attending, please email me at leoatawbury@hotmail.com!

The Plant Swap is a plant for plant swap with garden related items (i.e tools, books
seeds, pictures and ornaments) included.  The average attendee brings 35 items!
There are also donations from local garden centers and plant nurseries.
There is also food, fun and good conversation.

 It is held at Cathedral Village in their Chapel Room.  It has been held there for
the last 5 years.  It started at the Awbury Cope House and was there for at least 7 years.
It moved briefly to a community center for one year and the to Cathedral
Village. The average attendee has been coming for over 7 years!

Here of some pictures I took while setting up!  Everyone looks around at the plants
and plans before the swapping starts!

One attendee, Eric, was nice enough to bring me flowers!

 I think they were from his garden!

 There is also a raffle at the swap!

Here are two of the winners!

My next gardening event is PHS Gardening Contest Judging!

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Philly Flower Show Plants That Won!

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The Philly Flower Show was great!  It was one of the best in years!  I entered the
show but I didn't win anything but my husband got two blue ribbons!

Here are his plants.

tylecodon paniculatus

 Aloe rauhii x bakeri

Well, maybe I'll win one next time!  I post my pictures of the show soon!

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Flower Arranging

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If you are looking for ideals on flower arranging and would
like to see a few videos on it, Whole Foods Flower Chef.  I wasn't
familiar with the term "chef" in the way of flowers.  I guess it is a person
who know a lot about flowers.  I didn't see anything about her formal education.
You can see a few of their videos on YouTube.  Here is one!


Since they use local flowers, the flowers that they show should be
available where you are! The flower bouquets that they use look
pretty large.  I am going to check them out.  Most of my flowers
sources have small bouquets.

They also have a blog!  I search for post just on flowers and there were
a few.

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