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Comment by Don yesterday

The garden, all in and coming along nicely at the start of its 33rd season here on Memorial Day in South Wheelock, Vermont

Every blossom a blueberry-to be.

Comment by Hope on May 22, 2012 at 6:28am

Grow Your Own Food With Vertical Gardens

ABC News recently did a story on an amazing way of growing your own organic food – Vertical Gardening. The O’Hare airport has embraced the concept of vertical gardening in full force and now grows much of the produce for restaurants at the airport in their vertical gardening display, seen here below.

Vertical Garden display at O'Hare Airport. Much of this produce is fed to travelers at the airport's gardens.

Vertical Garden

The Vertical Garden is truly remarkable! Have you ever seen “The Lands” at Epcot? The inventor of these Vertical Gardens, Tim Blank, used to work for the Epcot center and helped design their aeroponic gardens and technology. He’s now taken this technology and made it accessible to every homeowner, not just huge organizations like Epcot.

This type of planting crops is called aeroponic gardening. It takes no soil and uses less than 10% as much water as conventional farming in soil. It’s a very green and eco-friendly technology! Furthermore, you can produce as much as 6 times as much produce in one acre of land using aeroponic vertical growing due to the increased growth rates, efficiency and more space when you go vertical!

With the growing trends in eating organic foods and local foods, the Vertical Garden may be a perfect fit for people who want to grow their own food without any of the weeding, tilling, fertilizing or other typical chores of gardening. Many restaurant owners in New York are now growing food on the rooftops using their Vertical Gardens (available online here).

http://www.tomcorsonknowles.com/blog/juice-plus-tower-gardens-launc...

Comment by Dallas Gaytheist on May 20, 2012 at 1:09pm

The bumblee delight iris:

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Comment by Adriana on May 10, 2012 at 9:05pm

I have plant envy :-(

Comment by Dallas Gaytheist on May 10, 2012 at 8:59pm

Chuck, someone else suggested ruellia humilis, aka, wild petunia, and I think they are right. Look here:

 

Comment by Dallas Gaytheist on May 10, 2012 at 8:23pm

Here's a closer pic.

 

Comment by Dallas Gaytheist on May 10, 2012 at 8:18pm

She had some tibouchina there, and the leaf shape was similar, but those leaves were slightly varigated, while these are not. They are, however, soft and plush. But the flowers are not deep purple. The pics of the achimenes don't match either, as those all seem to have scalloped or jagged-edged leaves, while this plant does not.

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