Visiting Flower World

Visiting Flower World is an event.  The place is located on 200 acres on which most of what they sell is grown.  Fifteen acres of that space is dedicated to the retail nursery and three of those retail acres are covered by huge retail sales greenhouses making shopping a delight even in bad weather.  In addition to the nursery, there is a huge, beautifully landscaped park, a local produce stand, and a small farm that includes all kinds of fowl, sheep and goats.  Heck, even the parking lots, nestled beneath tall douglas firs, are full of interesting plantings!    So large is the nursery that maps are posted in mail boxes throughout so that you don't get lost.  The first few times you visit, the map is a necessity.  So, here's a little of what I saw on this trip.  (I skipped the tree areas, the rose house, and several other areas.


Brugmansia blooms.  I finally got my first bloom this spring on mine in the green house. Alison got blooms much earlier.  Flower World almost always has these in stock and in bloom.

Abutilon 'Red Tiger' trained into standards were everywhere as were Abutilon megapotamicum 'Variegatum' in hanging pots.

And of course fancy leaved geraniums (pelargonium.)  This one is 'Vancouver Centennial' a perfect partner for dark leaved phromium!

Also ever present are tons of African Violets.  I haven't grown these since I was a kid.  Do you grow them?


So nice to see Beaucarnea recurvata (Ponytail Palm) allowed to have a single trunk.  Lately it seems that I only see them in stores with multiple trunks.




Nice to see so many impatiens back on the sales tables.  Has the downy mildew problem gone away?









YIKES!  This stuff will take over bushes, flower beds, small communities.  Fortunately, it's easy enough to pull up.











Brugmansia sanguinea is pretty but does not have that fabulous evening fragrance of the others.