Re: NE flower show

In a message dated 3/20/03 7:00:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
VBouffard@aol.com writes:


> Cheryl, I was there Tuesday and today at the MG info booth.  I looked around 
> a bit but not too much as I am going with a friend tomorrow.  My impression 
> based on what I've seen so far is that this is a really, really good show, 
> probably the best for at least several years.  Very creative landscaping 
> and great plants.  I'm excited about going back tomorrow, even though 
> traveling into Boston is not my favorite thing.  The show is definitely 
> worth the trip this year.  I hope Claire agrees?
> 
> Vivien
> Zone 6, MA

Yep, agree Vivien.  It may the long winters, maybe the lure of a new plant 
for the greenhouse, whatever we go every year.  Just think a fifteen acre 
show in the planning stage!

See what you think about the trellis work, the many imaginative ways a small 
garden can be enhanced.  Several of the sales booths are so well done one 
thinks he needs to have something from them when in fact you do not (hard to 
pass by).  Faux garden windows, pots of every kind ( I am replacing mine with 
those plastic foam look-alikes for lighter weight ), beautiful things that go 
with plants.  The garden clubs have done a lot, one built an Irish Cottage 
which upon a close look is done with cardboard boxes, very clever.

In the middle of March I would vote for the show whatever turns up there.  We 
stopped at the Lyman Estate Greenhouses on the way home.  Nearly everything 
on display is propagated and for sale.  They are heavy on orchids in March 
but many other beautiful plants in cold Boston are in full bloom.  There is a 
Bougainvillea in full bloom with a trunk 12 inches thick.

There is a grapery.  Maybe the idea would be of interest.  You build a thick 
masonry wall, this one is brick and plaster, straight up, perpendicular to 
the ground.  You slope glass from the top the wall to a footing on the ground 
and face the building to the south.  The wall catches the sun and retains the 
heat.  Grapes were on the vines and lemons on the trees.  Oranges, peaches 
and pineapples were originally grown there,  in this grapery, outside Boston. 
 There was much knowledge in the past all lost to present generations.  
Clever glassed pits around Boston gave the name to Boston lettuce, a year 
around crop 100 years ago.

And, finally, if you do not pick up paper at shows, there will be a combined 
plant society sale, 20 societies present, April 26th in Waltham which just 
outside Boston on the !-95.  Perennials, annuals, everything is listed.   If 
one lives in the East everything is either on or near or reached from the 
I-95.

Whatever the other shows around the country do that please you, maybe others 
will post reviews.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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