| I wish all of you could have been with us! The plant display was the best I've personally seen in a very long time and the Best of Show award went to LariAnn Garner who is a regular here on GardenWeb. LariAnn's plant was a hybrid Philodendron with wildly shaped leaves and I would have loved to contrive a way to sneak it out the door! She won quite a few prizes for some beautifully grown plants and as one of the judges I would like to personally congratulate her for all the hard work which was obvious in her display specimens. I've added a link to some of the photos of the show and there are more available but this forum won't allow me to post two links so the other will wait. We're already working on ideas for next year so please make plans now for a September vacation in Miami! The plants for sale at the auction and by vendors from Ecuador, Thailand and all over Florida made keeping your wallet safe a major problem! Believe me, I know since my wife has already told me I spent my budget for the next three years! We will just have to wait and see! If you can imagine a Philodendron verrucossum with 18 inch velvet leaves there were three for sale! One nowresides in my atrium. By the way, I'm in hopes LariAnn will post some of her prize plant photos since I'm still living in the dark ages and don't even have an account with one of the photo hosting companies to put up my own! But I promise, some will end up on the Exotic Rainforest website! |
Here is a link that might be useful: Some photos of the IAS show