You ooh and aaah as you slowly back up for a different view. Suddenly you turn and are transported to yet another completely different environment that inspires exclamation... Beyond the wildly imaginative, romantically beautiful, tongue-in-cheek, and stunning displays, the flower show is: purchasing perfect obelisks (that fit the budget), warm apple dumplings a la mode, cooking demonstrations, free wine tastings, bus transport and a hot thermos of coffee, and hanging with my friend Grace all day...
This is part 1 of 2 - my personal favorites from the show. I'll try to keep the commentary short. Below, the frozen display drips into a shallow pond.
Below is Grace's favorite. It's a luxurious spa setting. The photo does not do the gorgeous and lush living wall justice. In the foreground is a millennium pool. This scene is all white, wood, water, and lush foliage.
This below was super cool. Each glass was suspended from the grid at the top of the display. We determined that it might represent water, sand, grass, forest, mountain. The vases were free to sway ever so slightly. The next photo shows a close up of a vase. The flowers sit in colored water.
Graffiti art covers the inside of a box car and is punctuated with the speckles of orchids.
This display sits up high and decorates the ceiling of a box car. All I can name are the pitcher plants.
The photo below is the arrangement that sits above the table setting in the photo below the next one. Match up the lights for reference. This exhibit also fills the inside of a box car.
More next time...
This display sits up high and decorates the ceiling of a box car. All I can name are the pitcher plants.
The photo below is the arrangement that sits above the table setting in the photo below the next one. Match up the lights for reference. This exhibit also fills the inside of a box car. 
More next time...
13 comments:
I am going on Friday, I can hardly stand the wait till then. Now I can't wait even more. Thanks for the peek.
I like those suspended ice by the pool. Are those calla lilies inside the block of ice?
This is an unusual garden show with lots of attractions. I can't wait for your next post now.
This is certainly more of a art show than a flower show! Love to see the imagination of different artists/works here. Those glasses which are suspended from the ceiling grid is truely remarkable. It's like a floating island/carpet. And I like the way those pitcher plants are used. They matched them with some extraordinary heliconia blooms right? That bird of paradise colour is unique also. I wish I could be there to see for myself!
Hi Wendy that is a beautiful show. It looks like most of the plants used are from the tropics, though the blue has been dominant. I specially choose the Strelitzia as my favorite among those. It is so big and elegant.
Hi Wendy that is a beautiful show. It looks like most of the plants used are from the tropics, though the blue has been dominant. I specially choose the Strelitzia as my favorite among those. It is so big and elegant.
Wow, this is a long way from a dozen roses and some baby's breath in a vase. (Which was about what I learned when I did a stint working at a florist's in college.) My favorite was the landscape designed in swaths of colored flowers in those hanging vases. Although the dripping ice-blocks of calla lilies were pretty amazing, too... such creativity!
Wendy, what an amazing show, love the ice blocks in the first picture, a very cool idea. Can't wait for part two.
Hi Wendy ~~ Fun! I want the millennium pool too. I'm looking forward to round two.
I'd be so mesmerized looking at these fine flower artwork in person. I wish I have the artistic skills to transform my backyard into a beautiful oasis.
What beautiful displays! I can't wait to see more!
yes, it was definitely more of an art show that I had imagined. I liked the little challenges/themes that gardening groups tried to meet. One theme was "double dutch". The display had to feature a repeating element, and also had to involve tulips. It was fun to see what people came up with.
The hanging vases have a "do not attempt this at home in your real garden" feel to them, but they really appeal to me. I guess the other displays had a lot of that flavor too, that these weren't real gardens, but little capsules of ideas to play with.
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