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11/14/2012 Visit Notes: This year’s fall exhibit was titled, “Autumn Harvest” and featured a huge, fully operational grist mill that abutted a pond filled with river rocks and surrounded by pumpkins, weighing 300 to 1,000 pounds. There was a vintage-aged, authentic wine press (Fig. 01) that dated back to 1920 that was surrounded by several 3-foot tall vintage wine barrels. The center bed was dominated by a 30-foot-long covered bridge walkway 14 feet in height. One of the most captivating features was the 20-foot-tall and 18-foot-wide talking tree (Fig. 02) covered with a grape-filled canopy. One of my perennial favorites is the life-size scarecrow (Fig. 03). The picture in (Fig. 04) shows a huge cornucopia. Though we usually visit these exhibits during the daylight hours, we decided to go during the evening this year. Unfortunately, we arrived an hour too late and missed the harp and violin performance that was held daily in the 13-foot-tall and 12-foot-in-diameter Victorian octagon gazebo. Though some of the lighting on the displays was quite nice, it made picture taking much more difficult. There were 10 colors of chrysanthemums spread throughout the display area. During the run of the display, the horticultural team responsible for the exhibit estimated that they changed out 75,000 flowers at the rate of nearly 8,000 each week to keep everything looking fresh and colorful. The gardeners planted 22,265 plants and shrubs from 17 categories and 25 trees.
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