bad plant mixes

**C* T* E* <c*@gardenvista.com>**

Loved your comments about mixing spring flowers with fall blooms.  I've 
stopped going to the Philadelphia Flower Show because I was so offended 
last time I went by seeing gardens that mixed bougainvilleas with 
flowering forsythia along with azaleas and sunflowers.  It was jarring, 
unharmonious, and a great disservice to attendees inexperienced in 
garden matters who may want to try to copy the design.  I have no 
problem with the growers showing off their forcing expertise, but I do 
have a problem displaying flowers together that would never bloom at the 
same time in the real world and combining flowers and plants that have 
totally different cultural requirements.   End of rant...
    Catriona
jo ellen meyers sharp wrote:

>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
>  
>
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