Huntington Botanical Gardens

I was at a dinner party the other night, and one of my friends told me how excited she was about all my articles in the July issue of Alabama Gardener. Hell, if she thinks she’s excited, she should have seen my face when the magazine landed in my mailbox last Tuesday!!! I stayed up late because I had so much to celebrate. First, my picture made the cover.

Next, someone at the magazine upgraded the title of my article about fairy gardens to ‘Pixies in the Plants’, which is adorable. I loved the layout on the article about Spring Plant Trials, AND I think that my back page article ‘Peggy’s Big Adventure’ is either the first or second best thing I’ve ever written.

I hope that I don’t sound like I’m bragging, it’s just that I worked really hard on the July issue, and I’m thrilled with how it all turned out. Besides, it was a joint effort. I’ve already emailed Tina and Shane, my editor and the magazine’s art director, to thank them for doing a great job on my articles. And my BFF Trace always gives me fabulous feedback. After reading my first draft of the back page, he said, “I don’t know. It seemed way funnier when you told me about it.” My friends Marcia and Marilyn both helped me with the fairy garden article. And even Dan helped more than you realize. In addition to being the subject of my back page article, he also critiqued my fairy garden article and gave me an interview for the Spring Plant Trials article. And I’m adding my daughter Monica’s name to the list of people I should thank. She always edits my blog posts. Thanks everyone!

I’m continuing my series of posts about Peggy’s Big Adventure with more pictures of Huntington Botanical Gardens.

I overheard one of the employees tell a visitor that they have a five year plan to reduce their water usage by replacing lawns with drought tolerant plants.

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I wish I could grow bottlebrush shrubs, but they are zones 8-11. This one is Callistemon ‘Little John’.

Huntington also had a weeping form of bottlebush.

In the back page article, I talk about Huntington Botanical Gardens and say, “The highlight of the day was when Dan pointed out the Puya alpestris flower. The beautiful turquoise blooms still haunt my dreams.” This next picture is the one that ran in the magazine.

Puya alpestris

I’m going to write at least one more post in my series about Peggy’s Big Adventure. Once I post the pictures that I took at the Begonia guy’s house, I’ll have covered everything that I talk about in the article, but I might do a final wrap-up to the series. I don’t know. We’ll see.