Here in my region of the Northeast, the snow has been sitting on the ground for over a month with more predicted this week. As much as I love the snow covered scenery, I have started to get restless thinking about Spring.For those those OpenSalon members who are from snowy areas and others who simply like horticulture I am posting 28 days of photos from my archives showing a range of flowers, gardens, parks, greenhouses, flower shows and the like.
In July, I posted about my great grandparents' garden on Long Island, NY that is no longer in existence. You can find that here:
The Beautiful Garden That Bit The Dust
http://open.salon.com/content.php?cid=4873
For my first day, I have some photos taken in 1967 by my maternal grandfather who was relatively well known in the U.S. horticultural world back in the fifties and sixties, as well as being a dentist in New York City. In May of '67 he went on a three week tour of various points in Europe to see the various gardens and parks there. Photos from this trip will be the beginning of this series for a week or so.
These are scanned from 42 year old slides so they are not as crisp as a digital photo would be.
Below are three photos taken at the Chelsea Flower Show in London, May 1967. The bottom photo gives you a sense of the greenhouses that housed the flower show, as well as, a look at some London garden enthusiasts of the time.
Above: Dahlias.
Above: a variety of lilies, if I have my facts right, as this slide was not labeled.
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But you need to get on a train and head south in March. The Philadelphia Flower Show is wonderful. Both amateur and professional exhibitors turn the cement fl0ors and walls of the Philadelphia Convention Center into a wonderland.
This year's theme is "Bella Italia" and I wish I could be there. I was on the Flower Show committee for a lot of years. My children ran among the front loaders on the set up days when they were toddlers. I worked my fanny off for 2 weeks and loved every second of it.
Here's the link to their site:
http://www.theflowershow.com/home/index.html
Just kidding of course. It just sounds funny. But then, we have the Audobon Society...even an NJ city named after him.
All kidding aside, I have always maintained that "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think."
I have always maintained that "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think."