Scenes from the 2018 Philadelphia Flower Show

in #flowers7 years ago (edited)

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The Philadelphia Flower Show ( https://theflowershow.com/ ) has been a huge annual event for many years now, drawing hundreds of thousands of attendees and attracting participants from all over the world. This year's theme is "The Wonders of Water."

I've been probably a handful of times over the years and it's a really interesting, enjoyable event, though also usually crowded as hell... :D

The Philadelphia Convention Center is a massive space spanning many blocks, so there's tons to see and I didn't really come close to checking it all out this year. But it was fun seeing all the work put into the major productions and displays, as well as the winner of individual plant categories.

Here's some pf what I saw this past weekend:

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20180304_100139.jpg (main entrance from the floor)

20180304_100156.jpg (first thing you see is huge rainforest themed displayed. it looked very cool, but the pics could be better)

20180304_100216.jpg (another view of the rainforest installation)

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20180304_100630.jpg (you get to see lots of other artistic creations, like the beautiful hanging glass sculpture here)

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20180304_100650.jpg (this succulent display / cactus arrangement took up half a city block)

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(vending areas)

(I'm not sure what was going on here, but the parts of it had spectular color! I thought some of these would make great entries into the Steemit color challenge, if I really knew what those were all about...)20180304_100923.jpg

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(some sections of the prize winning plants. as I strolled by I wondered what the qualifications were to become a judge of plants and flowers and what the criteria were in each of the categories)20180304_101246.jpg

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(AARP has this amazing wall of these beautiful flowers cut from colored paper and cardboard)20180304_101524.jpg

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(and to round things out...tulips!!)20180304_175200.jpg

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So I hope you enjoyed these pics of the show.

As always, I appreciate your thoughts and comments.
Best,
@hypnopreneur

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nice! I still have to make it down to see the entire setup. Some friends of ours are using one of our hydroponic systems in their display there, and City Planter has a display too I'd like to see. Thanks for sharing!

Did you make it? I should've offered you my sponsors pass, I just got so busy since Thursday I kind of forgot about.
Pretty cool that you had some of your gear powering a display there. In addition it's probably a good endorsement / bullet point for marketing purposes. :)

We did make it, thanks for the inspiration👍 Our friend got us in to see things for a quick morning visit. The guys at Camden children's gardens had a nice display and were really helpful in passing out our business cards. I will post a few pictures soon

Cool, glad you made it. Look forward to seeing your pics stuff.
(Also in case I don't see you between now and next week, our next blockchain / crypto meetup is a week from today Tuesday the 27th at the Institute. Hope you can make it.:)

Excellent post. I wanna go there with my good camera and make a post also. I helped set up the butterfly exhibit and one of the art exhibits all last week and the week before. I live streamed the butterflies when they first hatched. My cell phone camera isn't the best. They said they'd get me free tickets.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1894629497513992&id=100009008804030

Thanks so much.
It must've been a great experience to help them bring it together and see the other projects being built. You should make a post with the pics you already have. And then if you can get back again take better pics and do another one.
I missed the butterflies, it was gwttong too packed. Cool you got tp watch them hatch and streamed it too.