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RE-USE, RECYCLE, RE-IMAGINE

#AASWinners:  Petunia Tidal Wave

7/27/2018

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​WELCOME to the Phone-A-Friend Garden ... billions of messages are sent daily by smartphone users 24/7, whether it be a tweet or a twitter, Facebook or a text. Electronic communication in every language, embellished with emojis, is essential for business and pleasure, as the 21st century social networking expands even more.

 
Playing on the All-American Selections (AAS) 2018 theme of “Get Social in the Garden”, this garden bed features logos and icons from a variety of social media.  Who wouldn’t want to phone a friend when the weeding needs to be done? 
 
This bed includes a dozen past AAS winners to form the boxes of each media type along with a logo.   One that stands out and mingles well with others is Petunia Tidal Wave, an AAS Winner from 2015.   All American Selections describes this petunia as one that doesn’t “fade even in the heat of the summer.   Large flowers literally cover the vigorously spreading plants that rarely need deadheading because new blooms continuously pop up and cover the old, spent blooms. A perfect solution for the time-crunched gardener or anyone looking for petunias that are carefree.  Tidal Wave petunias are the tallest of the Wave family and bloom over and over all season long and recover quickly, even after hard rains. Tidal Wave is an excellent landscape performer, covering a large area quickly and beautifully.”   
 
This is part of a series of blog posts featuring the All-American Selections Display Gardens.
What is All-American Selections?  As written on their website: “All-America Selections is an independent non-profit organization that tests new, never-before-sold varieties for the home gardener. After a full season of anonymous trialing by volunteer horticulture professionals, only the top garden performers are given the AAS Winner award designation for their superior performance.”  The Spooner Teaching and Display Garden is one of eight AAS display gardens in Wisconsin. 

​Come to the Spooner Teaching and Display Garden to see over 600 plants that have been planted in the display beds.  The planting of both the display and vegetable beds is now complete and each day there is more to see as the season progresses. 
 
 
The Teaching and Display Garden can be found on Orchard Lane and is located 1.5 miles east of Spooner on State Highway 70 or 1/2 mile west of Highways 70/53 interchange.  It is open to the public daily in the growing season during daylight hours.
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Mary Heenan
7/30/2018 07:31:53 am

Very interesting!

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