On Monday we left the cabin early for a trip to Weatherford to see Clark Gardens. I have been asked to speak there before, and I have accepted, delighted to spend an evening on “the hill” tucked back in to a garden paradise. Of course, I normally talk in the fall, when the Sternbergia are blooming, and I enjoy the chance to see these beauties. Right now, there were some cannas blooming and a beautiful row of butterfly bushes (Buddleia).
This was just a quick trip to plan for the upcoming Fall Festival there at the gardens. Before I could get out of the car Rebecca had to quickly sew on a button that had come off my shirt!
We plan to have quite a program and lots of bulbs. Right now, it is hot there, just as it is hot everywhere else in the South, but that didn’t stop the peacocks from putting on a show.
The phlox around Weatherford looked nice, but that wasn’t because they were receiving city water. We tried to stop at a Starbucks and use their free wireless internet (did you know they were offering that now?), but the city water supply was shut down.
Chris Wiesinger, the Bulb Hunter, founded The Southern Bulb Company to share his finds with the world. 
