Back From The Expo

This past weekend was the Wisconsin Public Television Garden Expo. Above you can see our booth at this event (note the 9' obelisks with LED lights from our lights show!). Rotary Gardens has had a booth at this event for the past 12 years and it has always been worth our while to promote the gardens to this crowd. The attendance was great and I'm sure the weather played a role in such a successful turnout. My talks went well and we were able to hand out information to thousands of attendees. It was nice to see other gardens represented as well as lots of plant organizations and other non-profits. There are certainly many vendors as well and people seemed to be buying all sorts of interesting things. Larry did a great job of putting everything away from that event.

Nice grumpy turnout today. Marv and Terry went out to bring in more lights and displays while Jerry and Urban continued to prune. Janice and Marianne were helping out in the office with seeds, books, inventory, and myriad other projects. Dr. Gredler and Dick W. worked on processing lights and prepping garbage boxes for repainting. The carpenters continue to work on more bean towers (see below). We'll end up having 25 structures here and 25 out at the Rock County Farm. Larry and I are off to the Midwest Perennial Plant Conference (Milwaukee) tomorrow and hopefully will avoid the impending rain/sleet/snow forecasts.