Making the scene at Create A Scene garden

In their location garden, Create A Scene, floral decorator Michael Bowell and the creator Simple explicit their wit and place-making done plants and plot art. Their irreverent, enveloping plot successful Malvern, Pennsylvania, was 1 of the stops connected the Philadelphia Area Fling past month.

Their plant-stuffed and colorful plot swallowed up each 100 of america connected the circuit arsenic we acceptable disconnected to research foliage-hidden rooms, patios, and an tremendous greenhouse.

Red leaves and flowers packed into containers are eye-catching, particularly contrasted with chartreuse foliage.

Red abutilon

More pretties successful terracotta

A ample arbor engulfed with plants encloses a sheltered sitting area.

I spy a h2o diagnostic done a scrim of pinkish flowers.

Getting there…

Ta-da — determination it is!

A glimpse of Michael and Simple’s weathered reddish farmhouse done their colorful jungle

A balancing act

Watch out! Medusa’s connected the porch.

Art and plants harvester successful vignettes to observe passim the garden.

Yoga frog

A stock-tank pond acceptable inside a larger stock-tank planter — that’s different!

Hammock nether a gnarled tree

Behind the house, atop an arbor, prances a metal…cat? Or devil?

In back, an tremendous greenhouse holds a tropical works lover’s collection. There is besides a blistery tub wedged successful among the plants, hidden from view.

Orchids successful Easter ovum colors

While exploring the garden, I ran into Susan Harris of Garden Rant, 1 of the OG Flingers, and she showed maine her chill Garden Rant t-shirt.

I ever regret erstwhile I don’t instrumentality galore pictures of radical astatine the Fling, and I decided I wouldn’t marque that mistake this time. After all, people are wherefore the Fling got started — we plot bloggers wanted to conscionable each different successful existent life! Today we’re not conscionable bloggers but anyone self-publishing online astir gardening.

It’s large to reconnect with longtime Flingers, including these 3 erstwhile organizers: Elizabeth Licata of Garden Rant and Jim Charlier of Art of Gardening, who unneurotic hosted the 2010 Buffalo Fling; and Judy Seaborn, who organized the 2019 Denver Fling.

And here’s the existent host, Karl Gercens, organizer of the Philadelphia Area Fling, talking with Mary Ann Newcomer, 1 of the planners of the 2011 Seattle Fling, and Layanee DeMerchant, whose charming country plot successful Rhode Island I had the privilege of visiting successful 2016.

Caroline Homer, a chap Austin blogger astatine The Shovel-Ready Garden, is besides a long-time Flinger.

Lynette Lampson is simply a caller Flinger and 1 of the planners of the upcoming Puget Sound Fling — hooray! She’s sitting with archetypal Flinger Dee Nash of Red Dirt Ramblings, whose beauteous garden successful Oklahoma I visited backmost successful 2008.

Paula Rothkopf is besides connected the readying squad for the upcoming Puget Sound Fling — yay, Paula! In the halfway is Kim Rabbidge of Our Australia Gardens, and our archetypal Flinger from Down Under. At close is Teri Speight of Cottage successful the Court, who was 1 of the 2017 Capital Region Fling helpers and a caller speaker astatine my Garden Spark series successful Austin. Fling connections are strong!

Here’s Lori Daul from Austin, who was blessed astir having a precise bully hairsbreadth time successful the Pennsylvania humidity portion besides enjoying sweater weather.

And much long-time Flingers: Julie Thompson-Adolf from South Carolina; Beth Stetenfeld of PlantPostings and 1 of the organizers of the 2022 Madison Fling; and Kylee Baumle of Our Little Acre.

Seeing gardens with garden-loving friends who stock online astir gardens — that’s what the Fling is inactive about, each these years later.

Up next: Boulder Haven, the location plot of decorator Carol Verhake. For a look backmost astatine the behind-the-scenes circuit and fountain amusement astatine Longwood Gardens, click here.

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