Kicking off year #2 of the GPOD!

It was a year ago today that we begin up the Garden Photo of the Day blog . Since then we ’ve posted over 450 inspiring garden photos , many of which come from you , our GPOD readers ! I took a few minutes yesterday to read through the entire year of photo , and it was lots of fun – I extremely recommend it . Keep those smashing photos coming . I ’d like to specially thank Ruth Dobsevage , FG ’s World Wide Web producer , who steps in to save the day whenever I ’m too overwhelmed working on the actual paper magazine to post for a few twenty-four hours – thanks , Ruth , you ’re the BEST !

Today we ’re kick off the second year of the GPOD with a flora compounding at one of my favorite gardens , theCentral Park Conservatory Gardenin New York City . If you ’ve never been , you should . The gardeners there are master at combining plants , and they use some somewhat amazing plants . This jazz band includes honey bush ( Melianthus major , USDA Hardiness Zones 8 - 11 ) , ‘ Magilla ’ genus Perilla ( Perilla‘Magilla ’ , one-year ) , and a gloomy elephant ear ( Colocasia esculentacv . , Zones 8 - 11 ) . Dreamy !

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