A Winter hare that is ready for Spring!

One of the Mum Greenhouses

In the month of February, I worked in Production at Longwood Gardens.  During my time there, I had the opportunity to work with Yoko, who is capable of producing a mum that has one thousand blooms.  For the next week, I worked with Koa, from Hawaii, helping pinch mums for the mum show later this year. It was great to be behind the scenes and see how Longwood Gardens operates their green houses.

My floral arrangement

This month the Class of 2012 helped the senior class with the Symposium. The senior class did an amazing job and brought in $8500 for their class trip to South Africa. For the sale, we made flower arrangements with pussy willows, tulips, and lilies.  All of the them were sold at the symposium. The whole experience was wonderful.

Deborah Butterfields "Cast Bronze Horse that looks like drift wood"

Besides working in production and helping the senior PG's, I was able to take a trip to Grounds for Sculpture. I saw Deborah Butterfield's work and also some contemporary sculpture work in the garden. I have never seen so many contemporary sculptures outside before. It was interesting to see how a part of the art world was working within landscape. I plan on checking out Grounds for Sculpture in Spring to see how some of the work contrasts the plants.

Grounds for sculpture path!

This month flew away and I hope there is no more snow in the forecast because I am ready to spring into my garden!