Re: flowering plants

**j* e* m* s* <h*@sbcglobal.net>**

Hey, Listers:

I should have been more specific. The client is creating a garden bed 
in a studio in Pennsylvania and wants it to look like summer that 
could be anywhere. This is for a product photo shoot.

The client wanted snaps, hostas, daylilies and mums because "they are 
everywhere." I was finally able to convince them these and other 
summer perennials are dormant this time of year. Then we talked about 
what blooms when to make sure they didn't show spring plants with 
those that bloom in fall.

I even checked out "green" set designers in L.A.

We may have sourced some plants through vendors at various trade 
shows in the east. Thank goodness for GWA. Contacts I've made with 
growers and other vendors at symposiums made this search a whole lot 
easier, even if it didn't turn up everything the client was looking 
for.

Yes, indeed, the weather has been something else. My column today was 
about daffodils and other spring bulbs emerging early. It's a rainy, 
48 degrees here today.

I appreciate everyone's suggestions.

Thanks, again.

jems
-- 
Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp
Garden writer, author, photographer
Region III Director Garden Writers Association
Phone: (317) 251.3261
Fax: (317) 251.8545
E-mail: hoosiergardener@sbcglobal.net

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