Part of my job

Category: Random Stuff | Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 4:37 pm

Last week, I worked along with my fellow employees to create our display for an annual Home and Garden show. It focuses on outdoor living and drums up business for us every spring. We spend many hours getting ready. The boys set up an outdoor fireplace, with a paver block patio in front of it.

outdoor fireplace display ( photo / image / picture from Kay's Garden )

They also made a flagstone walkway and left the mulched area for me to fill in with plants. I had to buy the plants from our wholesale nursery, but there was not a lot to choose from as it is quite early days yet here in Nebraska. We won't be planting much before May. So, I chose an upright White Pine, a Mugo Pine, and a giant Pussy willow for the backbones, and used a Blue Star Juniper, Red twig Dogwoods, Ornamental Grasses, a new variety of Lilac called "Bloomerang", Heucheras,and Hostas. i found some blue Columbine in bloom as well as my favorite spring annual, Pansies for some color.

my display at the show ( photo / image / picture from Kay's Garden )

Columbine in bloom ( photo / image / picture from Kay's Garden )

The Lilacs were blooming too, and oh, did they ever smell great!
I did a lot of talking to people who came out to the show to see what's new this season, and anxious to get outdoors again. So, 30 some hours later, the show was over and we had a few days of good weather to actually work.
I supervise the crews that do maintenance and mulching. It keeps me on my toes, especially in the spring!
Now, I am sitting indoors, and it is snowing for the second day. The columbines are sitting in my garage and will be mine to plant in my garden, someday soon.
I sure have to be patient in the spring!

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daisybeans wrote on Sat Mar 26, 2011 5:05 pm:

That's a neat blog, Kay, and your display looks beautiful. Fun to see what goes on behind the scenes at a garden show. I sure do like that stonework, too. Sounds like this little rest watching the snow won't last for long!

gfreiherr wrote on Sat Mar 26, 2011 5:22 pm:

Very attractive display. Our garden show is at the end of February, and it always gets me excited to get started outside but its always too early. Even though we have had some nice weather...we had frost warnings the last two days.
Love the stonework and your choices of flowers and shrubs.

eileen wrote on Sat Mar 26, 2011 5:46 pm:

Here in Scotland we don't have garden shows until June. It's lovely to see what you and your collegues created and it sure looks good!! What a lovely job to have - not that I'm jealous you understand - well maybe a little!!

DirtyDigits wrote on Sat Mar 26, 2011 10:35 pm:

Kay what a wonderful talent! Being able to look at a space and have ideas of the space, types of plants and landscaping ideas. I hope you don't mind if I pick your brain later in the season if I need some ideas!

Jewell wrote on Sun Mar 27, 2011 6:11 pm:

With it snowing outside having the columbine to add a bit of spring to the indoors must be nice. We have mud for soil as I try to catch dandelions somehow going to seed in the freezing weather. How's that???? Your talents at the show were obvious. Enjoyed the blog :)