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About Carole Sevilla BrownCarole Sevilla Brown is a Conservation Biologist who firmly believes that wildlife conservation begins in your own back yard. Carole is an author, educator, speaker, and passionate birder, butterfly watcher, and naturalist who travels around the country teaching people to garden sustainably, conserve natural resources, and create welcoming habitat for wildlife so that you will attract more birds, butterflies, pollinators and other wildlife.. She gardens for wildlife in Philadelphia, zone 6b, and created the philosophy of Ecosystem Gardening. Watch for her book Ecosystem Gardening, due out soon. Carole is managing editor of Beautiful Wildlife Garden, and also Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens. Follow Carole on twitter, @CB4wildlife and on Google+
I’m really having trouble with this idea of a flower show being held at a time of year when there are NO flowers in the local area. So, every single piece of greenery and all the flowers must have been shipped in from somewhere more tropical? Of course I’m sure the idea is to get people excited about gardening so that they are ready to buy as spring approaches. But somehow it seems all wrong. Flower shows in the UK are in the summer when all the flowers are in bloom.
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I don’t know about Philadelphia, but here in Toronto I would say the prime flowering season is so short I wouldn’t want to waste time in the convention centre when I could be outside! Our winters are so long that by this time I’m desparate for flowers. I don’t know how many of the flowers at these shows are grown locally; but there are Ontario greenhouse-grown flowers all year round, I would assume the same is the case in Pennsylvania?
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The last one’s definitely a beaut, also love the peacock (
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