Biggest Bougainvillea You’ve Ever Seen

Ft. Myers, FL–While visiting the Edison & Ford Winter Estates recently, I checked out the biggest darn bougainvillea ever.  Edison gravitated to the property because of the bamboo trees, a cheap source of filaments for his lightbulbs.  But he was experimenting with plants and growing all kinds of wonderful things, including bougainvillea.  And now that [...]

Edison & Ford Winter Estates–A Brilliant Idea To Visit Again

Fort Myers, FL–Edison was a genius, no doubt about it.  But he was more than that–he was a practical genius, and that makes for great business sense.  At the Edison-Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers, FL you can see that practical genius at work in a multitude of ways. 

The estates just completed a multi-million [...]

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