Adams Flower Show 2023

  The produce and fresh food market that Marie shops at does a small flower show of their own every year. This is in one room. It is free and open to the public. You won't find rare or unusual plants there, but what you will find is beautiful masses of color in abundance. This is just what one needs at this time of year. This year there were three waterfalls; this is the primary one.

The colors and textures are outstanding for a small show. You could pretty much point your camera anywhere and get pictures this dense.

I especially like it when there are adjacent groupings of complementary or contrasting color. Here are purple spoon mums, pink azalea, and a white daisy.

The colors and form of ranunculus are always stunning. This is basically a cultivated variety of buttercup.

Here's a variety of begonia that I am pretty sure I haven't encountered before, although I've featured over 30 varieties on the blog previously. I need a couple more lifetimes so I can spend one of them cultivating begonias, hostas, heucheras, and succulents.

This was a bigger deal than just going with Marie. We took Selma. We ate lunch together then went to the Flower Show. She was SO happy. She is walking quite a bit now (she broke a leg in November), but can't stay on her feet for long enough to do the whole day without a chair. After we had seen it all, we got ice cream before taking her back to the rehab center. At 92, she's having memory issues and doesn't see or hear very much. But we all had a good time. She is really upbeat and has a cute sense of humor. It's easy to be with someone even when they have difficulties when they are so clearly having a great time.

For today's new fact that I choose to remember, I learned that you don't have to leave shrimp plants trailing in a tangled mess from a hanging pot. These have been wrapped and tied around a pole to turn them into a topiary. I liked this look much better.

This took most of the day. We did a couple other small errands afterwards.

See Adams Show 2019