Flora ranged from Bonsai to full grown trees. Gazebos and small houses were surrounded by flowers.
Many flowering plants and shrubs were named with markers. Naturally not all were. Especially those that really interested me. I have, when compared to some, a small garden planted mainly with pedestrian things. I cannot even remember the names of all the things I have planted there. I am intrigued by displays of untold bounty in gardens such as displayed at the show and while there have a burning desire to start all over again back home and reproduce perhaps a small portion of what I have seen. Reason or lethargy prevails when I return to my comparatively poor imitation and I do little in response.
The only reason I remembered the name of this Veltheimia Bracteata at the flower show was that it had been labeled at the Longwood Gardens and I copied the name down. I will undoubtedly forget the name by next week. I might remember that this other one is a Clematis but as no named marker was present I can be forgiven if I myself do not know it. Another visitor was at my elbow as I took this photograph and she asked me what the name of the Clematis was. Little did she know of whom she was asking.
Kay and I desisted in making purchases other than small, light packets of seeds knowing that all too often our eyes are larger than our abilities. There were untold booths of gardening associated merchandise for sale and we successfully resisted. I am still growing Tulips and Oxalises I purchased at Floriade but no longer have the banana plants that originated there as seeds. My memories of the Philadelphia show will be maintained in the flowers that will soon be blooming.