I went to a flower and garden show yesterday (2/19). This was my first time visiting such a show. I liked it but I expected more. It had lots of stalls but there were only two stalls that had anything to do with garden - one was selling coco-peat and the other was selling seeds; rest of the stalls were selling food, jewelries, stone-handicrafts, etc. There were some garden set-ups based on Alice-In-Wonderland theme; the flowers in the set-up were quite common flowers - tulip, rose, hellebore, primrose - nothing unique. I observed that there were not many identification tags for most of the flowers, trees and shrubs. The set-ups give nice ideas about designing and decorating a garden. Here are some pictures:
Images of some flowers:
And, how can I go to a garden and flower show and not buy something :-)? I got three bags of potato seeds, pepper and gourd seeds and seeds of some not-so-common herb seeds. They are St. John's Wort, Savory, Feverfew, Borage, Cardoon, Pennyroyal and a common herb, Thyme. I could not control myself and bought them, but my research is telling me that some of them are extremely invasive; also, Pennyroyal can supposedly be very toxic. Anyone has any ideas about these herbs? I got them because of their flowers which attract bees. I now have to grow them in pots and also need to learn to control myself from buying all sorts of seeds.
