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Philadelphia Flower Show 2025

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Gardens of Tomorrow March 1-9
Pennnsylvania Convention Center

This year's entrance garden, "Future Florentia" captures the idea that flowers are a symbol of the future, representing growth, beauty and vitality in a natural, poetic style.

Seth Pearsoll, the show's VP and Creative Director, says this year's theme "invokes a sense of optimism, highlighting how planting something today is a small gesture that promotes a brighter future."  He adds that the exhibitors' designs showcase sustainability and the re-use of materials to create gardens of "breathtaking artistic expression."

PHS President Matt Radar said the show offers "a glimpse into the future of the industry while advancing our mission to create a greener, healthier, and more equitable world through gardening." Several new designers will be exhibiting this year, including the landscape and urban design firm OLIN.  OLIN, in partnership with Remark Glass, will install a garden called "Don't Call it Dirt, Don't Call it Trash" to emphasize the importance of repurposing items that are often thrown away, such as glass bottles, woody debris, and food waste.

Japanese garden designer Kazuyuki Ishibara is working with Treeline Designz on a garden of two tiers that celebrates interconnected landscapes.  It's called "Tomorrow's Eden -- Gardens for a Changing World."

As always, the show will feature educational sessions, a butterfly kiosk, a play space for children, floral crowns available for purchase, potting parties, and early-morning tours and photography sessions.

For  a full schedule of activities, visit the website Philadelphia Flower Show.

 

Happenings February 2025

Selected Events Around the Country:

Orchid Shows:

Feb 1-March 9, Orchid Show, St. Louis, MO
Missouri Botanical Garden
Feb 6, Lecture, LA Michelle Delk, Philadelphia, PA
6:30pm, Penn Design, "Snohetta Landscapes"
Feb 8-March 23, Orchid Show, Boylston, MA
"Pixels & Petals," New England Botanic Garden
Feb 8-March 23, Orchid Show, Glencoe, IL
"India Blooms," Chicago Botanic Garden
Feb 8-April 13, Orchid Show, Atlanta, GA
"Orchid Daze," Atlanta Botanical Garden

Feb 14-March 30, Orchid Show, Cleveland, OH
Orchids: Love in Bloom, Cleveland Botanical Garden
Feb 14-April 27, Orchid Show, Washington DC
"Masters of Deception," US Botanic Garden & Smithsonian Gardens
Feb 15-April 27, Bronx, NY
The Orchid Show: Mexican Modernism
NY Botanical Garden

Events:

NOTE: US Production Facility Open House March 8th (see LOOKAHEAD below)
Tickets go very fast.

Jan 31-Feb 2, Nashville Antiques & Garden Show, Nashville, TN
Music City Center
Jan 31-Feb 9, Great Big Home & Garden Show, Cleveland, OH
I-X Center

Feb 7, Urban Tree Symposium, Boylston, MA & ONLINE
9am-4:30pm, "Urban Oasis," New England Botanic Garden
Feb 7, Today's Horticulture Symposium, Kennett Square, PA & ONLINE
8am-4pm, Longwood Gardens

Feb 10, Lecture, LA Thomas Rainer, Charleston, SC
5:30 pm, "Functional Planting," Charleston Hort Society
Feb 11, Lecture, Morris Arboretum Director William Cullina, ONLINE
7pm, Native Shrubs & Small Trees for Perennial Companions, Hort Society of MD
Feb 11, Lecture, "Designing Biodiversity," Cambridge, MA
7pm, LA Evan Abramson, Cambridge Public Library
Feb 13, "The Art of Bulbs", Bronx, NY
11am-noon, Lecture, designer Jacqueline van der Kloet, NYBG
Feb 14, Greenscapes Symposium, ONLINE
9am-4pm Eastern, "Designing Resilient Landscapes," Brookside Gardens
Feb 14-17, Great Backyard Bird Count, USA
Help Audubon and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Keep Track of Our Birds

Feb 19-23, Northwest Flower & Garden Festival, Seattle, WA
Seattle Convention Center
Feb 20-23, Connecticut Flower & Garden Show, Hartford, CT.
Connecticut Convention Center

Feb 26-28, ELA Annual Conference & Marketplace, ONLINE & MA, PA locations
Feb 28: Boylston, MA; Brewster, MA; Villanova, PA
Feb 27, "Black Flora," Floriculture's New Vanguard, Bronx, NY
11am-noon, Lecture, author Teresa Speight, NY Botanical Garden
Feb 28-March 2, New Jersey Home & Garden Show, Edison, NJ
NJ Convention & Exposition Center

LOOKAHEAD:

March 1-9, Philadelphia Flower Show, Philadelphia, PA
"Gardens of Tomorrow," Philadelphia Convention Center
March 8, US Production Facility Open House, Washington DC
10am-2:30pm, US Botanic Garden Production Facility
March 11, 39th Davidson Horticultural Symposium, Davidson, NC
9am - 4:30pm, Davidson College, "The Unusual, Unexpected & Unfamiliar"
March 29, Lahr Native Plant Symposium, Washington DC
9:15am-3:45pm, US National  Arboretum

April 10-12, 78th Colonial Williamsburg Garden Symposium, Williamsburg, VA
"The Influence of Great English Gardens,"  Also ONLINE
April 26-May 3, Historic Garden Week, various sites, Virginia

May 20-24, Chelsea Flower Show, London, UK

 

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