If you’d rather just look at pictures, see the Gardens of Central Florida that’s posted on this site’s Photo Gallery section. If you’d like to read more about the gardens, check out a past post I wrote on “ Where the Plants Are Still Blooming.” Some 25 people already are signed up to go, but we have room for maybe 10 or 12 more. Or check out the detailed itinerary with signup sheet on Lowee’s website or the day-by-day itinerary in my George’s Talks and Trips section. The cost is $1,995 per person double, including airfare, lodging, transportation, luggage-handling, admissions and 13 meals. To sign up or get more information, email Chrissie Kelly at Lowee’s Group Tours at or call 71 or toll-free 1-88. Your Tower Garden comes with a variety of seeds and seed-starting supplies you need to get growing. We’ll also take a backstage tour of the hydroponics gardens at Epcot Center’s Land Pavilion, spend a day checking out Florida’s native plants and wildlife at the Merritt Island National Refuge, eat some of the best strawberry desserts ever (they’re in season down there then), see a school of manatees, and have a free day to visit any of the Disney World parks (ticket included). Leu Gardens, Sarasota’s Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (my favorite of all Florida gardens), McKee Botanical Gardens in Vero Beach, Heathcote Botanical Gardens in Fort Pierce, Hollis Gardens in Lakeland, and Bok Towers near Lake Wales. We’ll jet to Orlando for an 8-day, 7-night gardener’s winter get-away that includes visits to Orlando’s Harry P. Lowee’s Group Tours and I have put together a trip to the gardens of central Florida for Tue., Feb. I’d love to show you six of them if you’re interested in shortening winter by a week while the rest of central Pennsylvania freezes its buds off. That region happens to have a nice collection of public gardens within day-trip driving range of one another, too. What a tonic it is leaving the frigid black ice of central Pennsylvania for the palm trees and blooming fragrance of central Florida. (Heading to central Florida yourself? Check out the 3-bedroom, pool-equipped villa our daughter, Erin, rents there.) My wife, Sue, and I have gravitated to Florida the last few years, and as you might suspect, we used some of that snow-bird time to check out Florida gardens. One coping strategy that helps is getting out of here for at least a week or two – preferably some place where the warm sun still shines even in January. The exotower is a modular, hydroponic system that can grow up to 28 plants, veggies, leafy greens, herbs, micro greens, and flowers in less than two square. The only good thing I can say about this pending winter is that at least the black flies will be gone. It’s ironic how I don’t mind shoveling compost or digging soil, but I really don’t like shoveling snow. I’m not a winter fan at all, especially the parts that involve skidding on icy roads, helplessly watching polar vortexes kill the borderline-hardy specimens, and shoveling snow. Our February landscape doesn’t look like this.Įnd of another growing season.
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