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