Updates

I know it has been a while since I posted the corner garden, but it is coming along nicely!

Didn't the pathways turn out good?

Love the Angel's Trumpet!

And lots of new visitors!

Alright. I'm not fooling any of you. These are pictures from the Butterfly Rainforest at the Florida Museum of Natural History. A girl can dream, can't she? If you live near Gainesville it is worth a visit. It may be the only good reason to visit G-ville (stupid Gators.)

Last weekend, I hit up the Master Gardener's fall sale. In past years I have been less than impressed with fall sale. Pretty much the same ol' stuff. This year I got there much earlier, and I don't know if it was the earlier time or just a better show, but I could have bought the whole place. The above haul was for my yard: 6 red cannas, a pagoda plant, a terribly awesome curly-leafed coleus with burgundy spots (I already have cuttings rooting) and the plant on the chair, which is something random my daughter pick out. I still don't know were I'll put them all.

For my mother's yard, I got a fantastic variegated spiral ginger, a peach ginger (Disney??) and two red firespikes.

Now for some ginger blooms from my garden.

Well, it is a big mish-mash of stuff for this post. Hopefully I'll have some real garden updates next week!

Hey Anonymous!

Whoever identified the Medinilla in the Gainesville Butterfly Rainforest- THANK YOU! I've been wondering about that plant for almost a year.

Butterflies at the Butterfly Rainforest

We went to the Butterfly Rainforest at the Florida Museum of Natural History today. My husband and daughter may have been there for the butterflies, but I was all about the plants. The have successfully created a beautiful, inviting garden to contain literally a gazillion butterflies. I'll be studing these photos carefully.

I really like the plant in the foreground that looks like giant nasturium leaves.

I don't know what kind of plant this but I really love it.

Oh yeah, there butterflies there too. Lots. We had to avoid stepping on them.

Wait a minute. They are doing the nasty! In broad daylight! In front of children!!!