3/25/2007

San Francisco Flower and Garden Show 2007

We went on the last day (after the 2 p.m. admission price cut) and zoomed through in about 90 minutes.

I enjoyed most of the installations, but this one was my favorite.

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The designer created an underwater landscape using succulents and populated it with sea creatures.

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Super-fabulous. This would work best as a night garden. You'd light it with colored lights, and it would feel like you're in an aquarium.

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Elsewhere, fine textures and woodland scenes predominated.

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This one got the most coverage in the local media, and you saw Amy Stewart post the same shot on Garden Rant.

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Lots of interesting garden sculpture, but apparently I didn't photograph much of it.

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I enjoyed this grassy knoll.

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I would totally do something like this if I had the space.

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In fact, I'd like to plant a maze.

I regret that I didn't pay more attention to who designed what, but you can go here to see the designers and visit their webpages for hours of garden-related websurfing fun.

2 comments:

Delphine said...

Thank you,my american friend to show us the SF show. it's too far from us to go there...
This week-end, we (my man, my son and i) have filmed our own small show in our garden. Come and see the life of your french admirers.
http://paradisexpress.blogspot.com/2007/03/paradis-express-la-video-familiale.html

Unknown said...

I loved the pictures of the octopus garden elsewhere, but your idea of making to a night garden with colored lights... wow! I would love to see someone do a garden display like that sometime.