So much Gardening to Share....

Hello Friends!  I have been so incredibly busy that it's been a couple of months since I posted! It's to the busy pre-garden season again already and there's so much I want to share. I went to our local garden show in Springfield, Missouri last week, and in lieu of a wordy post, I'm going to share, in pictures, what I saw in beautiful plants and trends!  I'm going to just jump right in here and get blogging again! :)

Beautiful Succulents were everywhere!  I don't think I've ever seen so many.....and they are really by reputation an easy to care for plant. Just like everything else, there are new varieties all the time, but here is one of the classics for you.

Tropicals were the RAGE. Everywhere you looked, I swear!  What better to relieve a winter weary mind, anyway, right? :)

Yep, that's right. More Tropicals. They relieve our eyes as well with a welcome punch of color, shapes and texture!

And speaking of shapes and texture, under the column of just, weird, is this staghorn fern!  I don't think it would be for me, but it was.......interesting.

 

Under the column of Trends, let's put these adorable Fairy Gardens. They had whole rows of furniture and classes marketed around this collectible hobby. I think I might be able to do one less expensively than the brand name stuff but it does look cute and fun to do!  Might bring one a lot of indoor joy in the off season, or even all year long!

And before I leave you, because it is going to take TWO installments to show you everything, it looks like, let's look at the Ultimate Garden Cottage, in the Ozarks Forest. I love this:

That twisty tree thingy to the right is a torsioned or twisted filbert I think they called it. This was the absolute cutest garden shed, and it had a bunch of tools inside (of course).  The proprietor is Wildwood Gardens at Rogersville, Missouri. I liked this exhibit the best of any there. The gentleman there said that they built it to disassemble by removing the right side and then it can be tipped on its side I believe he said and pass under bridges and underpasses easily. Clearly a wonderful concept and exhibit that took a lot of care and work to execute! Join me again this week and I'll show you a few more views from last week!  Take care until then- ~JB was here.