Boston Flower Show
Mar. 15th, 2005 01:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matrixrefugeeMy dad persuaded my mom to come with us to the Flower Show tonight, the first time we've gone as a family in *years*. He's been saying, "If you miss the Flower Show this year, you've missed the Flower Show."
There were lots of really nice exhibits: A community college had an exhibit with yellow, white and pink flowers planted in the 3-D shapes of Easter eggs. Someone had constructed a woodland plot with birch tree trunks and a pond with live trout swimming around in it (during set-up, my dad says he was tickling the trout's fins and making 'em jump, just about out of the water!). Another garden had a cherry tomato vine draped on a natural wood-colored picket fence as part of the backdrop. One landscaper had a garden with a pond, an aviary with pigeons and quail and small pheasants, and two Black Swans swimming around in it -- one of the swans was playing with the green water weeds floating on the surface, picking up big clumps and setting them aside behind her, which amused my mother immensely. The centerpiece was a garden with a simulated Irish castle made out of fieldstone with ivy in the cracks. It's very refreshing to see this many flowers and plants and trees under one roof at this time of year. Not that I hate the winter, far from it: I just feel refreshed when I walk through a garden, and I needed that after a day of sorting through junk in my room...
There were lots of really nice exhibits: A community college had an exhibit with yellow, white and pink flowers planted in the 3-D shapes of Easter eggs. Someone had constructed a woodland plot with birch tree trunks and a pond with live trout swimming around in it (during set-up, my dad says he was tickling the trout's fins and making 'em jump, just about out of the water!). Another garden had a cherry tomato vine draped on a natural wood-colored picket fence as part of the backdrop. One landscaper had a garden with a pond, an aviary with pigeons and quail and small pheasants, and two Black Swans swimming around in it -- one of the swans was playing with the green water weeds floating on the surface, picking up big clumps and setting them aside behind her, which amused my mother immensely. The centerpiece was a garden with a simulated Irish castle made out of fieldstone with ivy in the cracks. It's very refreshing to see this many flowers and plants and trees under one roof at this time of year. Not that I hate the winter, far from it: I just feel refreshed when I walk through a garden, and I needed that after a day of sorting through junk in my room...
