This is the first blog I have ever attempted, and am only doing so for our garden club. Hopefully we can get a person from the club who is interested and competent enough to maintain this effectively. For starters, we are a garden club in St. Petersburg, Florida. We have been in existance for more than 4 years, and have a membership of 80 or so. Our website - yes, we have a website - is http://www.rakesandbladesfl.com/. I am the webmaster, so I am already kept busy with the club goings-on.
This past weekend I went to a great plant sale at a local seller's home. I got so many tropical plants - hibisci and hollyhocks - that my yard is sure to be full of color most of the year! Mitch Armstrong and Annie Sprague run one of the booths at the local Saturday Morning Market in downtown St. Petersburg, and they have a great selection of plants at very reasonable prices. I spent more than I planned, but I got much more than I expected! Check out their blog - heyplantman.
I am not a gardener by any stretch of the imagination. I have only resorted to gardening to clear up my patio of all the plants I have won in our club raffles. Since I like flowering plants that require minimal care, I have many hibiscus plants, brugmansia, jasmine, butterfly gingers and heliconias. Since we just had a freeze this past month, I was hopeful that I would survive without having to have a funeral for any of my plants and I think I have succeeded. Lots of things have died back or lost some leaves, but nothing has gone bye-bye! Yippee!!!Well, this ends our first posting, and I will keep my fingers crossed that I can find someone to take over this for the club. If not, you will be hearing from me soon - Bryan
Thank you B & B for coming out for our sale! And thank you all for continuing to support us at the Sat. Morning Market in downtown. As many of you know, we are not a "Big" nursery...as I always say, it's the "Mitch & Annie Show" and God Bless to all that support us small nurserymen(and woman!
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