Garden Tour

Today at lunch, me and a few girls from my office drove to one of our Partners houses who lives near our office in Buckhead to tour his huge lavish garden which has been featured in the past in the AJC (for those of you who don't know what that is . . . The Atlanta Journal Constitution News). He lives off of West Wesley in a lovely little home (approximately a million + bucks), he drives a Porsche (there is no substitute), he's married to his former paralegal from his old firm (I'm probably divulging too much information here) - anyway, he's an awesome guy, very sweet and way too generous to invite us to his home to walk us around his yard for an hour or more grabbing plants and telling us the genus and species and where he bought them and whom from etc. - it was the coolest lunch I've had in quite some time - he's very proud of his work. Here are some pictures I took with my Blackberry (didn't have a camera). The pictures don't do ANY justice on his creation. He is bringing each of us 4 girls a "goodie bag" next week with clippings and instructions on how to grow each of what we get - he was mindful of what each of us liked while we walked through the garden and is going to tell each of us what will go in our yards and how to grow it - how cool is that!! Can't wait!! By the way . . . most of what is in his yard cannot be purchased at your local Home Depot or Pikes. Everything is exotic and comes from mostly trading with other horticulturists/friends and purchasing from the Internet. He also travels quite a bit and purchases and trades seeds from exotic growing plants. Neat-o!

This looks like a regular ole hibiscus and you can't tell from the picture but this one is as large as a frisbee. HUGE!

This is a wind chime, not really sure why I got a photo of it - I thought it was totally cool!

Alex . . . . and the Devil's Walking Stick . . . also very cool!!

This is a Papaya Plant with real Papaya growing (you can't really see then unless you look closely). There are tons of other fruit bearing trees in the yard (orange, fig, banana, coconut etc.) . . . again - cool!