Garden Trips: Maymont Flower and Garden Show

Thursday, May 22 was the opening of the 2007 Maymont Flower and Garden Show. In past years, the weather has been problematic, but not this year. An early flower show, Maymont gets a jump start on the season and eager attendees from north and south of Richmond, Virginia, flock to the Richmond Convention Center.



Upon entering, visitors were greeted with this display celebrating America's Anniverary and in particular reminding reminding Virginians of the America's Anniversary Garden program. While the latter is certainly not limited to Virginians, Virginia Cooperative Extension has publications on the website linked above for garden design, plant installation and maintenance to encourage a red, white and blue themed garden.



To get right to it, here's the Best in Show garden:



Inside this garden were these fountains, at opposite ends, connected by a length of water. Note the gorgeous Japanese Maple:



At the other end, this fringe tree was in full glorious bloom:



I couldn't make up my mind if this was intentionally clever labeling or rather just necessity:



Here's another garden:



This one was called Reflections of a Kyoto Garden:





Another oriental garden:



Look what was up above:



Appropriately named American Rural Life:



We'll look around the show some more in the next post.