Yes, it is that time where I add some pictures to this blog. I will try to do better and show more of the happenings around the greenhouse and stores. Anyway, here are a few pictures from our 2023 visit to The Gardens at Ball Horticulture.
The middle is a nice treat. |
I wish I had more patience with macros... |
Beginning of perennials ... Mioux will have more next year. |
Way way way over-exposed... but it is a good one |
These make me smile.... and hopefully you. |
Veronica... I like using these in cut flower arrangements |
Nice blue flower... thistle. |
The Petchoa is a really cool interspecific cross |
I know I know this picture sucks. |
These were after a rain so don't judge to harsh |
Potted veggies for the Gen ??? They lost me after millenials. |
Ignore... wrong camera settings. |
Better exposure... |
Ball research loves begonias. |
Isn't that the truth. |
Downtown. |
This is a really bright white clear and clean white. |
Yep.. we will be getting this one for 2024 |
Succulents and petunias??? Eh! Why not! |
These are on my radar screen for '24 |
When IN Chicago..... DA POTTS! |
DA POTTS II |
That grass looks like it would hold up to our IL State Rte 127 winds. |
Joan. |
Ball and Field Grown Cut Flowers., YES. |
Portulaca and other stuff. Portulaca is coming back. |
Probably a 1000 lb pot. |
Notice the complimentary pot color and plant scheme. |
The Gardens... |
Pretty cool phote, eh? |
this too. |
more |
how would you like to work here and take your lunch breaks under those trees? |
Awesome. This made me say WT....? The flowes are smaller than a dime. |
Echinacea and Rudbeckia cross? cool. |
Cypress and Swiss cypress grass and swiss chard. |
Great example of the sun's effect on chlorophyll production. |
Who wants this as your backyard? |
In Carlyle, Breese or Greenville??? hmm..... |
Just another day in the garden |
ha ha... in 1975 this view would have been filled with all beds of different cultivars. so boring but scientific. and yes, I have been walking around this area for almost 50 years. |
Thank you for taking time to look. |