Floral Field Day. This learning Monday we participated in Cornell's Annual Floriculture Field Day. The morning was essentially taken up by lectures, which while interesting, did not offer many opportunities for photos. The afternoon however was spent out at Bluegrass Lane, Cornell's Horticultural test fields. It was windy, but I did manage to get a few shots for the blog. Here we see one of the first-prize winners of the container planting contest. It helps to prove my point that while flowers are enjoyable its always better to think about the effect of longer lasting foliage first. Not a flower on it, but the creative use of bog/emergent plant foliage netted it a goal over more blossom heavy arrangements.

Here's a close up of Sarracenia leucophylla, or White-top Pitcher Plant, one of the bog plants used in this award-winning container.

And here is an unidentified species (at least by me) of the same genus as above as used in the winning container.

The following are a few of the shoits I took of the perennial field collection housed at Bluegrass Lane. Check out my Picasa page in Sept./Oct. for more pics of this site as I'll be up there a lot in Bill Miller's Perennial and Annual ID class.