San Francisco Flower & Garden Show 2011. I went to this show Sunday :)

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ANNOUNCING THE 2011 SAN FRANCISCO FLOWER & GARDEN SHOW
Welcome to the Show. This year you will find cutting-edge garden design, new plants, 200 vendors selling outdoor living products, 75 seminars and films. NEW this year year are “Garden To Table” cooking demonstrations with famous Bay Area chefs headlined by Alice Waters, 6000 sqft of Edible Garden displays with hands-on advice, an expanded children’s section, a wine garden, and a film premiere. Join us March 23-27 at the San Mateo Event Center, Wed-Sat 10am-7pm and Sunday 10am-6pm. Help celebrate “Life in the California Garden” with food, wine, fun, flowers and more.

Hydroponics

Garden seating

This Maple had the most beautiful red branches!

Butterfly display. I was not supposed to take photos of these…oops! I didn’t see the sign. The lady growled at me and told me to STOP!!! lol I shoot off a couple of good ones before she told me stop ;)~

Bearded Dragon

House-o-succulents. I loved this!!! Can you see the bird design???

Crested Geckos

Tarantula spider

One of my favorite displays…ORCHIDS!!!

Masdevallia

Dendrobium. I have this one in a 4 in pot… I wonder how it took this one to get this big????

Odontoglossum- South America

Masdevallia orchid

Odontoglossum

orchid (didn’t get the name)

orchid (didn’t get the name)

Motarless garden wall, built on a slant w only soil and plants holding it together. Loved this idea!

All the plants in this display were potted up in recycled materials such as this, a ceramic bowl converted into a pot!

They used and old chandileer as a frame to hang these pots. I liked this idea, but not sure how functional it was. Thought it may be difficult to water.

Bottom view:

I love these cute little succulent gardens!!!

These were beautiful and very expensive. The large pieces about 2 feet wide were going for $1200 +
…ZOIKS!!!

Dragonfly

Cicada

Mosquito

Beautiful garden lighting

Beautiful glasswork

Iris

These lilies were so pretty!

29 Mar, 2011
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Stickitoffee

some lovely plants and ideas ~ some im not quite so sure about!

29 Mar, 2011

Gee19

Wow, that was some show, Tasty. Love the lighting, the reptiles, and the little bird house. Not too sure about that chandalier though :) Thanks for sharing.

29 Mar, 2011

Mariek

That was certainl a different type of show to those we have here. I loved the succulent house and the glass items, such as dragonflies / lighting etc. Must have taken you ages to take all these pics. Well done.

30 Mar, 2011

Tasteyg

Thanks for the comments :) I like going to things like this for some ideas and of course to buy some plants!!! Picked up some succulents, will post them later on my 'photo' page.
I loved the succulent house too, Mariek. The glass items were my favs as well :) I think that it actually took me longer to upload the pictures onto this site than to take them. We were at the show for maybe 3 hours and we had lunch.

30 Mar, 2011