Jeff and I recently attended the EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival. This festival is a great way to celebrate spring and see beautiful colors and arrangements. Each year when I attend this festival, I get great ideas for new plants to try in my garden. This festival is also a great educational opportunity since there are guest speakers and presentations on a variety of garden related topics.
One of the most interesting things we saw at this year's festival is the Eco Wall (pictured below). The Eco Wall is a vertical garden with irrigation tubing that runs throughout the wall. The Eco Wall Web site has pictures of Eco Walls in interior spaces in addition to exterior spaces. This wall is visually stunning. I would love to have an Eco Wall in our backyard or in my office!
Something else that caught our eye at the festival is the different shapes and sizes of vegetable gardens. I currently grow a few vegetables in containers. We keep talking about eventually building a raised vegetable garden in the backyard to grow more vegetables. We like the look of this vegetable garden (below) since it is not the typical rectangular or square garden.
One other pleasant surprise at this year's festival was discovering a retail booth that sells handmade, natural soap. The company is called Rinse. What I really like about their soaps is that they are not strong and overpowering. They have a lot of unique blends and scents with natural ingredients. I bought a bar of the tea tree and mint soap and it is lovely!
Here are a couple more pictures from the Flower and Garden Festival - a few of the many topiaries featured during the festival.
Here are a couple more pictures from the Flower and Garden Festival - a few of the many topiaries featured during the festival.
