My new Orchid is so beautiful it looks fake. I'll update with my other gardening projects soon...happy spring.

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Blooming Bromeliads and POTS!!

These hardly month old bromeliads are already blooming BEAUTIFUL purple shoots surrounded by pink!!!

Also I found a wonderful garden store in South Jersey opened all year round, McNaughtons on rt 9 in Somer's Point NJ. Just check out all these PoTs!!

New bromeliads

I got these in New Orleans at the Swamp fest at the Audubon Zoo.

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Beautiful Gardens

PFS2k9!!

This year Dylan and I attended the Philadelphia horticultural society flowershow.

The theme was "Bella Italia" There was a high emphasis on many things Italian that had little to do with flowers. One being cars, the other being fashion. There was (as always) a ton of displays involving wedding themes, (which personally I have grown very tired of) but I must say from past years at the Flowershow, I truely feel that this could have been better.

While I do not wish to drag every topic through the mucky mud of our fiscal state, I feel even in this wondrous place, the poor economy had snuck in a stunk up my flower show.

Where there's green, there should be no down trodden attitudes, so there was a saving grace. (besides the plant shopping of course!) The Organic Gardening Lecture that Dylan and I attended.

She was a little old lady who kept refering to her husband in such a nice way and all the work he does. They own a little farm, and rent some of their land to an organic farmer who sells to the markets.

Here are our notes taken from our lovely enlightening seminar.

PFS2K9-3/2 Organic Gardening Lecture

*Puree basil with oil and freeze to preserve

*Soak greens in salt water to clean.

-Encourage birds.

-Obtain chickens, hens, and a rooster.

-After mothers day –basil, pepper

-Plant garden on Halloween

-Organic Tom. Soil—Maneur based soil, leaves, wood chips.

-Make a list- make garden diagram, cover with black plastic to germinate seeds and kill weeds. Have soil tested by the county extension services (will inform you on what supplements your soil needs)

-Annual poppies- scatter beginning of March---- calenjula marigolds, sweet peas, greens, beets, cabbage, onions parsley, buttercrunch lettuce, (dill & cilantro- “Successive gardening”, must replant every 3 weeks.)

While my home garden has not begun, it is long over do, and it's quite amazing what the dog poop in our yard has grown in terms of weeds.

Photos will follow.

The years bounty.

Ecological ____________, or gurilla gardening?

Gurilla gardening is something of a form of _________ that isn’t quite as offensive as torture. It is very unlikely I will get in trouble, but the long term effects of invasive species on this little island are indeterminable.

I once read the term “invasive species” called “ecological ________” (for the purposes of this blog, and maybe website….in the future I will not say this word, but will allude to it) by Chuck Palahniuk in Survivor when he spoke about the Starling and how it multiplied in the North America after it was brought over by a man that said “everything that Shakespeare said there would be in the new world was. While I can’t cite this, Chuck said it, so I believe him.

The Simpson’s did an episode where Bart brings an American Bull frog to Australia and it starts multiplying like crazy. This makes little sense as Bart only brought one, but it does justice to a peculiar theory around how humans multiply as an invasive species on Earth. However that’s another blog for another pen name and another time.

The point of this blog is that all forms of graffiti are productive in one way or another. Showing communal ownership by painting our walls with art, and planting flowers are productive ways to influence individual thought.

These are my little communal art projects for the neighbors to see.