Philadelphia Flower Show blooms outdoors

May McClain, 5, of Ardmore, inspects one of the features in “The Birds and the Bee” exhibit by the Lakeside School in North Wales.

“The Honey Hive” by Renee Tucci Creative of Chalfont.

A flower show visitor points out one of the plants in “Intertwined” by Mark Cook Landscape and Contracting of Doylestown.

Isabelle Jargowsky of Washington, D.C., left, and her brother, Zackary Jargowsky of Cape May County, N.J., and Philadelphia, talk with Pamela Newitt, education committee chair of the Board of Trustees at Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve in Bucks County.

Two women rest on a bench beside a sculpture by Seward Johnson.

Linda Shanahan and Eric Vander Hyde, co-owners of Barefoot Botanicals in Doylestown.

Linda Shanahan, co-owner of Barefoot Botanicals in Doylestown with Eric Vander Hyde, sprays JoAnne Fogelman of Turbotville, Northumberland County, formerly of Souderton, with a cooling rose geranium hydrosol spray.

Treeline Designz of Portland, Ore., has found creative uses for bamboo in its exhibit, “Dancing With Nature.”

May McClain, 5, of Ardmore, pauses at a table set for teatime in “The Birds and the Bee” exhibit by the Lakeside School in North Wales.

Posted Friday, June 18, 2021 1:27 pm

Photographs by Jodi Spiegel Arthur

The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s first outdoor Philadelphia Flower Show took place June 5 to 13, in the historic FDR Park in South Philadelphia, designed by Frederick Law Olmstead.
The “Habitat: Nature’s Masterpiece” show featured over 75 unique installations, spanning 15-acres.
Among the exhibitors at the first outdoor event in the Philadelphia Flower Show’s 193-year history were Bucks County-based Burpee and Delaware Valley College.

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