Yesterday morning I met up with Stephen, Alisa and their mother to head over to the Members Preview day of the Philadelphia Flower Show. We hit Sam’s Coventry Diner prior for some breakfast and headed down to Philly around 11.
I’d never been to the show before (which is billed as the biggest indoor flower show in the world), so I was pretty excited, and just HAD to snag one of the official flower show bouquets for myself on my way out. The theme of the show was “Bella Italia”, which made for some really amazing Italian-themed exhibits – a lot of Rome! Plus loads of delicious looking wine/pizza and pasta/food themed presentations.
I took something like 150 pictures as we wandered around the show, I uploaded my favorites to flickr and this directory.
There was quite a lot of variety to the show, primarily being whole landscapes made of flowers and plants, but also displays of individual flowers, trees… a really spectacular show, which I should have taken Benadryl prior to! My allergies hit harder than I expected, and while it was totally worth it, the sinus headache I came home with was a bit unpleasant.
The crowds weren’t too bad, and toward the end of the day we were able to happily browse the vendor stands, where I acquired a cactus and some dried flowers, along with the show bouquet. The show closed up for the day at 3:30 (earlier than the rest of the days this week, since it was the preview), and we headed out of Philly then and I was home by 5PM.
Monday, Mar 2nd, 2009 at 5:59
Thanks for the write up and the piccies Pleia….. I bet the fragrances were wonderful….if not a little allergenic!