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The Pacific Orchid Expo hit San Francisco this past weekend. Lots of beautiful orchids . The San Francisco Bromeliad Society was invited to install a display table top garden and to have a sales booth. I just got home from packing up the show ... I'm bushed. Here are a few photos of the display garden that several members of the club worked on. From bromeliad table-scape From bromeliad table-scape From bromeliad table-scape Entrance vignette to the show : it was in celebration of the golden gate bridge From bromeliad table-scape From bromeliad table-scape One of the orchid exhibits From bromeliad table-scape   Mock ups for the upcoming Garden Show in S.F. Slowing chipping away at building the modular units for the upcoming S.F. Garden show that is opening its doors to the public in late March. The space that I am working within is a tiny 4x8 area. There will be about 8 or 10 of these spaces and they are being called " Small Space...

    Last week I found myself in downtown Portland on a sunny morning with a free hour. While it was tempting to do a little shopping (after all it is scarves and sweaters season) instead I headed to the Lan Su Garden, I’d never visited in the fall and thought it might be a good time to see what they were up to. While the official low temperature has been as low as 30 degrees at the Portland Airport these Musa Basjoo were still looking lush, no sign of frost damage. Although some of the stalks had been wrapped. As I walked up to this small potted tree I thought someone had some fun placing red fruits and flowers on it… Nope! Those would be the real thing, Pomegranates…