June 26, 2018

The Price Family Garden in Stillwater, Oklahoma

Magnolia tree at OSU campus from HouseofIngrams.com — Magnolia tree in front of the Price Family Garden

Last week my younger son attended a one-day engineering camp at OSU in Stillwater, Oklahoma. I hung out on campus all day and took lots of pictures of the gardens and flower beds. After a day of breathing the “O State ozone”, I’m ready to pack up and move to Stillwater. (Just kidding.) Our family has a running joke about being on the OSU campus. Something in the air makes us really happy to be there so we think they must be pumping ozone. Or is it the Eskimo Joe’s cheese fries? (According to my older son, the ozone effect does wear off after you have been there for a while.)

Anyway, I had a full day to hang around and wander through the plantings on campus, read, and people watch.

Canna border from HouseofIngrams.com — Cannas (Cannova Bronze Orange) and Hardy Hibiscus ‘White Jewel’ are part of the border in the Price Family Garden.

Herbaceous border at OSU from HouseofIngrams.com — Elephant Ear ‘Pink China’, Inkberry ‘Shamrock’, and Hydrangea Let’s Dance Starlight ‘Lynn’ in the front border.

The Price Family Garden is outside the Rancher’s Club, a steakhouse on the OSU campus. It combines edibles and ornamentals and is just gorgeous. They list descriptions of the plants along with planting diagrams on the internet. Here’s a link to the summer 2018 plan. They have a sign with a QR code you can scan and download this PDF with the plant descriptions.

Orange flowers from HouseofIngrams.com — Firecracker Plant (Crossandra ‘Orange Marmalade’) and Sweet Alyssum ‘Clear Crystal White’

Red Rubin basil and eggplant from HouseofIngrams.com — ‘Red Rubin’ Basil and eggplant

I can’t tell which variety of eggplant this is. There are two listed on their PDF. One is ‘Barbarella’ and the other is ‘Galine’. If I had to pick, I’d say this was Barbarella based on the leaf shape.