South Coast Plaza Spring Garden Show Finds

[miguynmkoi]

I went to the Garden Show at a local shopping center....without DH    There were three floors of fabulous plants and landscape designs to feast my eyes on and many plants shouting for me to take them home.

Since I only brought a small cart to hold any important purchases I could only buy small affordable plants.  This is what I got!

The Ti cuttings came with the pin cushion (protea) plants and 3 Gloriosa lily bulbs.  They also threw in 2 pineapple lilies. 

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Then I found a couple of stalls with exotic pitcher plants    Had to have one, or two, or three....  Also had to be inexpensive = small 

The top 2 photos are of a hanging pitcher plant which I saw for the first time in Hong Kong and became enamored with its oddity.  Hopefully I can get it to grow!

Second plant (3rd & 4th) had a bloom starting...a definite purchase so DH can see why I like carnivorous plants.

[miguynmkoi]

Then the guy who sold me the first plant threw in this very small, what I call, fly paper.  I had it in full sun until today...it's wilting, ugggg.

[Mikey]

You'll be in epi heaven in a few years when they bloom.  I really behaved myself this year and only bought a few air plants.  If you slipped a few times on the floor I apologize.  I was drooling while lusting after many of the plants.....

[miguynmkoi]

I know!  Can you believe it takes at least a year or 2 before the epi's bloom from a cutting!?!?  Oh well, they better be really good.  I chatted up with the guy at the stand and all the blooms displayed with the cuttings were all from his garden.  I can say I was impressed.

I went through the whole mall, like a pro, 2 days in a row.  First with my DD purchasing everything and the second with my mom and purchased a New Zealand Rock Lily.  Carried that monster in a bag because I forgot my cart    Tried to get Mom to pick something out but she didn't want me spending so much money.  I probably scared her when I was checking out the Japanese Maples. 

Photos below are taken at the mall show.  There are 3 floors of gardening and plant displays.  First floor mostly displays.

[miguynmkoi]

This next display was Japanese themed but the interesting feature was the led lights that shown from a point source on the plants below and looked like the tips were lit by tiny pins of light.

Love the pot fountain and the glass water path.

[miguynmkoi]

This cactus is beautiful.  The yellow blooms are the size of the palm of my hands.

Then we arrived at the center of the mall to a beautiful Secret Garden Floral display by the same people who design many of the floats for the Rose Parade.  Lots of real potted and cut flowers.

[miguynmkoi]

Sorry for the blurry photos.  Something better than nothing! 

More centerpiece beauties.

[miguynmkoi]

More water feature ideas.

Love the frilly tulips and their color.

Hope these photos gave you a few ooohhhhs and aaahhhhs.  Sure got a lot from me! 

[Mikey]

The display with the pin-point laser light dots on the leaves of the Maples and such was amazing.  I didn't even want to ask how much one of those units would cost.... 

[LeeAnne151]

awesome! 

[tinkster]

wow!  Those are just awesome.

tink

[MikeW]

Great displays there.

My neighbour gave me two cuttings ( snap offs ) from his epi yesterday - just love those blooms.

Cheers,

Mike

[miguynmkoi]

The display with the pin-point laser light dots on the leaves of the Maples and such was amazing.  I didn't even want to ask how much one of those units would cost....

The sales guy was real friendly but when I asked the price he gave me the price of all the different types of the technical lights I was very polite to say, 'Oh that's nice  " and quickly forgot everything else.  I just remember one little spot light was at least $350 and that's just the light part.  The machine thingy costs waaaaaaay more! 

[miguynmkoi]

Thanks LeeAnne and Tinker.

MikeW, it's always nice to share!  I hope my new epi's will grow like crazy so I have something to share.