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Photo by John Fischer
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The Philadelphia Flower Show opens on Sunday March 4 and runs through Sunday, March 11 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
The Philadelphia Flower Show is the oldest flower show in the United States and the largest indoor flower show in the world attracting more than 250,000 visitors annually from across the country and the world.
The Show is produced by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Founded in 1827, the PHS is the nation's oldest and foremost organization of its kind.
PHS's mission is to motivate people to improve the quality of life and create a sense of community through horticulture. Working throughout the Philadelphia region, PHS's Philadelphia Green program has helped thousands of residents transform neighborhoods and gateways into vibrant spaces of learning and inspiration.
The theme of this year's show is "Great Gardeners of the World". As stated in the show's press release this year's theme "will take visitors on a mesmerizing trip across centuries and continents in a glorious exploration of gardening achievements."
One of the nation's most notable public gardens, Chanticleer, debuts at the Show with "America's Romantic Pleasure Garden".
Christopher Woods, top American designer (originally from England) and executive director of Chanticleer in Wayne, PA, brings new life to a ruin and surprises viewers with living sculpture, exotics mixed with woodland plants and dancing images projected on a waterfall.
This "over-the-top" design challenges viewers to create their dreams in the garden and breaks new ground for garden designers everywhere.
The show, sponsored by PNC Bank, features 10 acres with blooming gardens and thousands of specimen plants, whimsical topiary, artistic flower arrangements, and miniature garden scenes by the nation's most renowned horticulturists and designers.
For the indoor gardener, the Show offers more than 2,000 examples of plants, collections, designs and flower arrangements in its Competitive Class division. Amateurs from throughout the world enter their creations into a competition that is judged throughout Show week. Ribbons and medals are presented in most categories on the Show's first weekend along with trophies for the major garden displays.
In addition you can find 130 vendors in the Garden Marketplace bringing the garden to the visitor with pots and plants, cut flowers and garden structures, patio furniture and ergonomically correct tools, all of the ingredients to satisfy the most winter-weary among us.
For the second year, Barnes & Noble is sponsoring a Garden Book Fair on the bridge connecting the exhibit area to the Grand Hall. Visitors can attend free lectures by this year's hottest gardening authors and have their books autographed at daily book signings.
Hours:
Sunday, March 4 and 11, 8am to 6pm
Monday, March 5 through Friday, March 9, 10am to 9:30pm
Saturday, March 10, 8am to 9:30pm
Admission/Fees:
Adults: Opening Sunday - $24
Weekends - $22
Weekdays - $20
Children under 12 - $10
Advance Sale $18.00
The Philadelphia Flower Show maintains an excellent website full of valuable information. Please refer to the links listed under "Elsewhere on the Web".
Your Guide will be attending this year's Show and will be adding a gallery of photos for those of you who are unable to attend. If, however, you can get a chance to see the Show live, it is well worth the trip.
Take a look at some photos of this year's show at our Flower Show Photo Gallery.
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