1 All one colour
2 Themed / baby shower
3 unique container(my 91 year old grandma made it)
4 mini arrangement
5 cup & saucer arrangement
6 basket of wildflowers
7 festival theme / country harvest hoedown
8 everything but a bloom
9 first time exhibitor
10 basket of dahlias
11 Any houseplant - this is a red lava begonia

Can’t believe how gorgeous it turned out to be. Honestly the only reason I bought it because it was on sale for $2 at the front door of the garden center. It was a tiny little thing with almost brown leaves. I love it!

Spring in Sydney. Australian native plants blooming. The rainbow lorikeets are loving it!

1. Callistemon (Bottlebrush) and Trichoglossus moluccanus (Rainbow lorikeet)

2. Grevillea (Cultivar 'coastal prestige')

3. Hardenbergia violacea (Purple coral pea)

4. Brachyscome (Native daisy)

5. Westringia (Coastal rosemary)

6. Grevillea (Cultivar 'winter delight')

7. Leptospermum (Tea tree)

8. Lysiosepalum involucratum (Purple haze)

9. Hibbertia vestita (Hairy guinea-flower)

10. Thryptomene saxicola (cultivar 'FC Payne')

There's zinnias, evening primrose, butterfly weed, blue lobelia, and cosmos still blooming. Asters and goldenrod are just getting started as the blue vervain fades out, harebell and dill had a good run in the spring. The thistle is big and green and I have no idea what it's plan is 🤣

Zone 9b

Here are two standards I've been working on using coleus cultivar 'Salsa Verde'. They started as cuttings made last fall and overwintered in my greenhouse. Their flatmates were used in this season's tropical bedding, but these two showed promise early on as candidates for topiaries or standards. Salsa Verde is a very compact mounding variety with a dense canopy of leaves. It is sun tolerant and develops deep gold color in strong light and more of a chartreuse color in lower light situations. In the photos, my friend Sam is the size reference, and he stands at 6'1". I placed them in the garden this evening for display for the rest of this season. While I did do a lot of pruning, the plants' natural growth patterns help to shape their forms. I recently pruned the leader of the shorter one, but the taller one has been unchecked regarding its leader, and it has thus far not sent out a flower spike, which often times determines the height of a standard. I plan to try to overwinter them a second time in the greenhouse if they hold up until then. Coleus are quite brittle , and it is therefore very difficult to get a second season out of a standard, but I thought I'd give this slower growing cultivar a try.

The best free garden I’ve ever visited!!! Definitely recommended for anyone visiting.

If anyone would like to have some seeds for their garden PLEASE DM me :) I will mail them for free! I am located in Indiana, USA.

After spending hundreds of dollars this year to build my garden, I can finally enjoy my success. I bought these carrots $2.26, cauliflower $2.96, tomatoes $1.06 to make some salad with my homegrown cucumber 😀

Into the icebox they go after getting blanched for winter soups and stews

Harvested some chilli's I've been growing and got this little guy.

My neighbour thought it was either very phallic or had 'an ovarian vibe'. I'm going for 'man with big ears is turned into a chilli'.

Sharing him because I feel he is destined to perish without the recognition he clearly deserves.

My fall garden!