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March 1, 2010

Pennsylvania Garden Expo: approachable gardening

Pennsylvania Garden Expo

 

Photo credit: Gary Mihoces

 

After Saturday at the Philadelphia International Flower Show, which gives new meaning to the expression "flight of fancy," it was a different kind of pleasure to attend the Pennsylvania Garden Expo in Harrisburg Sunday.

 

The display gardens are actually something a real homeowner could recreate and the crafts, food and garden art were modestly priced. It cost $8 to park at the show and some attendees complained. But I spend $27 to park in Philly!

Both shows accomplished the same thing for me: making these last weeks of winter a little more endurable.

Gardening is a smaller world than you think, and I was able to visit with one of my fellow bloggers, Laura Mathews of Punk Rock Gardens. She was easy to spot. She was wearing a sweatshirt with her logo on the back. Garden Variety needs one of those!

The lighting was just off enough in the cavernous and ancient Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg to prevent me from taking any decent pictures so I had to rely on my DH to use his skills. I loaded the results onto Flickr, so you can go there and see the show for yourself!

Posted by Susan Reimer at 9:49 AM | | Comments (1)
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that is is nice picture. I like waterfall and the rocks around the waterfall.

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About Susan Reimer
Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.
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