Hi! Happy last days of March! I can't let March fade away without sharing the annual March flower show. It's always lovely, like a suddenly May day. click to enlarge photos, to see details...
Come walk with me? The big greenhouses are filled with trees, shrubs, spring flowers and ideas!
This large garden center is on the north shore of Long Island, an area of rolling hills and trees. This year the show featured delightful woodland scenes, with lots of ferns and moss and tiny creatures.
A fairy house! If I had a wooded yard I would have to have a tiny dwelling under a big old tree. So magical and wonderful. I can just see me and my dad creating this in his Cape Cod woodlot.
Even a Hobbit House this year.
It was about 3 feet high, with round door and rounded windows that we could peek into and see the little pantry and kitchen, with candles, a tiny rocking chair and an itty bitty pie cooling on the window sill.
I loved the tiny resident Hobbit couple.
Nearby was a lovely pond, with koi and butterflies [faux] , and [caged but real] birds.
The featured flower this year was Lenten Roses, or Hellebore. Lovely in a subtle woodland sort of way.
Remember I mentioned early blooming Andromeda? This is a beautiful specimen.
Some tropical gardens, still popular despite being difficult to achieve.
A waterfall. And weird hanging jelly fish?
Hydrangeas and hardy colorful flowers for us beach dwellers.
Ideas for deck planters.
Then : Easter~
I wanted the mercury glass Easter eggs , of course. But got an elephant ear bulb and canna bulbs instead.
Pansies! So sweet and hopeful. And salt air hardy.
Bedding bulb plants for those of us who forgot to plant last Fall.
This was one of my favorite things! Sweet and tiny and perfect. Lily of the valley are another fave of mine.
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Today we have torrential rains, in expectation of April's showers. Mo likes his new raincoat. [For those who think doggy raincoats are stupid--they're not for the doggy, they're so that a wet smelly pooch doesn't destroy one's white sofas. I lay out a towel for Mo, he jumps up on it for me to dry his feet. Perfect!] Now the wind has picked up to 47 mph. I think we may skip Mo's sunset walk.
And something for the weekend. I plan to make a roast. And maybe try this new recipe? Never had cooked radishes, have you? RECIPE
love
lizzy
gone to the beach....
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