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Apparently I stopped one day short of covering all my photos from the Philadelphia plant show! Probably because my kid had an entry in this category, which is also hard to photograph. Miniature gardens/landscapes, which covers a range of approaches. Info in alt-text; 2nd post to follow.

#FlowerShow #Philadelphia #PHS #miniatureLandscapes #fairyGardens

Close shot of the front of the caravan, showing the bark roof, the teensy pots near the door, and other details like the railing and steps and wooden wagon wheel.
A different take on the category, involving a desert gorge setting with a river running through rocks diagonally across the box. There's also something like a miner's shack. Plants here are mostly in the corner and all succulents or cacti. I think. I especially like the round cactus in the lower left, which is surrounded by tiny spherical pups. My daughter noted that this exact gorge + shack was entered last year, although the plants have matured and/or been changed. That seemed a little unfair to both of us, although the judges weren't bothered.
A couple of the other entried, showing a higher ratio of plant life to landscaping and building work One appears to have a gravel path, park bench, and tree (maybe 5 inches tall) with a lot of moss and ferns. The other is more desertish and has a variety of succulents lining a stone path.

acm_redfox,
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Here's my daughter's entry, which also had a lot less building, but above-average creativity. She was inspired by the mosaic lizard in Gaudi's gardens in Barcelona (photo in the half of the photos I haven't posted, but link here: https://wanderingtrader.com/travel-photos/parc-guell-lizard-barcelona/) and built a two-tiered planter with lizard and bowl.

The rest of the planted lizard garden. Here we see the rest of the bowl, including his mosaic body at the upper left, with his tail extending along the rim of the bowl and becoming a waterfall into a mosaic-bottomed pool. Next to the tail are several tall succulents with leaves only at the top, giving them the appearance of palm trees. Within the curve of the tail are a couple of bright red plants, and again the shapes and colors vary throughout the bowl. In front can just be made out part of the map of species that must be included with each entry.
I decided that this was hard to make sense of in those two photos, so here is the finished lizard before he had the "waterfall" added to his tail and before anything was added (dirt or plants). A clearly abstract lizard shape is made of a turquoise material, with compartments in the head (small), body (medium), and tail (open to the dropoff into the bowl), following the curve of the left side and back of the bowl. All surfaces are covered with brightly colored mosaic tiles in a mix of shapes. Only one of the lizard's feet is visible, supported on a rock inside the bowl, with round gecko toes. The planter is sitting on some newspaper, where bits of grout dust have collected.

Deus,
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@acm_redfox Chaotically beautiful. Talented!

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