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Color in a garden adds warmth, drama, and interest. Flowers are often the first thing people think about when they want color. I certainly love flowers and use them in abundance, but color doesn’t stop there. In fact, I believe it is just the beginning. Learn what other annuals and perennials offer great summer color.
Summer is here and it is time to plant our flower beds with perennials and annuals. Learn what plants are low maintenance with long lasting blooms.
I was so excited, once again this year, to enter the Historic Savannah Foundation’s window box competition. I was especially enthusiastic about this year’s theme, Going and Growing Green. I decided to create a “green” succulent box that was rich in a tapestry of texture, requiring very little maintenance.
Thursday night was the preview party, which was held at the Roundhouse Museum in downtown Savannah. I took my 11 year old son, Kristopher, as my “date.” We had so much fun feasting on grilled quail breast over grit corn cakes and shrimp gazpacho, among other delectable. Kristopher’s favorite was the chocolate cookies, unlimited sprite, and sticking his fingers in the chicken coup of one of the displays.
To my surprise and delight, the icing on the cake, was that I won first place in the window box competition. It was a sweet moment when Kristopher looked at me and told me, “I told you that you were going to win.” His unwaivering faith in me brings a smile to my heart.
The Savannah Garden Expo, which went on through the weekend was a great event. The display gardens, window box competition, and the nice variety of vendors all housed in the this incredible historic site is well worth attending.
Looking forward to next year!
Plants include
Bromiliad, Crassula argentea ‘E.T.’s Fingers’, Kalanchoe ‘Flapjack’, Sedum sieboldii ‘October Daphne’, Sedum tetratinum ; Sedum tetractium, Sempervivum tenctorum.
Container should be in part sun to part shade for best results.
All about organic gardening, I delve into questions concerning everything from the definition of organic gardening to how to incorporate it in your own home and how to deal with weeds and diseases.
This is a plant I just discovered the other day in Florida called the Golden Trumpet Tree
I met Jeff Ross today, garden manager for Blackberry Farm, which is a very quaint “farm to table”inn with a rare collection of artisans. The chef, the master gardener, the baker, the cheese maker, the forger, the butcher, the jam lady, the chocolatier, the restaurant manager, the sommelier — all blend their unique talents to create what their guests know as Blackberry Farm.
Jeff and his wife, Rachel, are involved with the enviromental committee at Sea Pines Montessori to create a kitchen garden for the kids “garden to lunchbox” initiative. Most of the plants in the garden are being grown from heirloom seeds used in South Carolina as well as pea seeds from Tanzania, where their sister school resides. For two days Jeff, along with the students, parents, and staff created this hands-on nutritional outdoor classroom.
It won’t be long before the kids will be feasting on, everbearing strawberries, jersey knight asparagus, shanty boat butterbeans, german queen and brandywine and bonnie grape tomatoes, perkins okra, ichiban eggplant, and tanzania field peas.
I wish them the best success for a truly fun and inspiring educational journey from seed to plant to fruition. All of our children could benefit from a garden to lunchbox initiative. Thank you Sea Pines Montessori.
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