Another Visit to Flower World.

 

 

After spending a lovely morning at the Fronderosa Frolic and shopping at nurseries and produce stands along the road out of Gold Bar, it's always fun to skip on over to Flower World.   You can read about previous visits to Flower World here.  Also, be sure to check out the F.W. website here.

 

 

A huge wisteria-covered pergola marks one of the many entrances to the retail area.  This is an enormous nursery where they grow all of their stock on site. It's so large that map-filled mail boxes are strewn throughout the 15 acre nursery to help you if you get lost or if you want to find a certain area.



Rose of Sharon with a visitor.

See the mailbox? 

Because they grow their own stock, the place always looks full and interesting even when other nurseries are winding down the summer plant sales season and gearing up for the Holiday sales push.

Cordyline terminalis 'Miss Andrea'

Still coleus a go go.  I wonder if they continue growing these in one of the many greenhouses during the winter or take cuttings for next year?  Is it more economically advantageous to discard them and start from seeds or liners  in the spring?

Rudbeckia 'Cherokee Sunset' is lovely.

There were lots of dahlias covered in bloom.  Such happy flowers!

All of these impatiens make me think of Deanne's gorgeous variegated impatiens plantings this year!

Euphorbia lathyris

A small part of the ground cover house.

An unusual treat (not so unusual at flower world) seeing Asimina triloba or Paw Paw trees for sale.  They grow quite well here, have an interesting almost tropical look about them and produce the fruit made famous in the song "Way Down Yonder in the Paw Paw Patch."   A native of the eastern half of the U.S. it can be grown in the west as well.  If you've never tasted the fruit, it can be ordered online here. I got some a couple of years ago and enjoyed it.  The fruit has a custard like consistency and tastes a little like a cross between a banana and a pineapple. Delicious. 

In addition the nursery, there are acres of park like plantings to explore. 

I learned that Flower World extends across the road  and includes an area to view quite a few farm animals and also includes the produce stand that sells only locally grown products.  Our lunch of late season strawberries, apricots,  and fresh squeezed cider purchased here was wonderful as were the newly dug purple potatoes that came home for later.

It was lots of fun to see many of these animals wandering freely through the property.

Since you asked, yes we do know that we're  handsome!

Who had the bright idea to wear WOOL in the heat of summer?  I'll be here in the shade if you need me.

Pea fowl.

I've seen white peacocks before but this one was partly colored and partly white. Does anyone know if this is something that sometimes  happens with cross breeding?  It was really an interesting look.

Pygmy goats are so sweet and funny. 

On the way back to the car, this gorgeous hydrangea screamed out "Look at me!"  Who was I to ignore a talking plant?

If you enjoy plants, Flower world is well worth a trip to visit their huge selection of green delights for indoors and out!
Hey look, there's still time to get to Molbaks (and even Wells Medina Nursery if we hadn't just visited a few weeks ago with Alison.) The Fronderosa Frolic takes place around the second weekend of August each year so if you're starting to plan your field trip calendar for next summer, this would be a fun day to add!