<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4XHEKs_0kOuOpmw00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4XHEKs_0kOuOpmw00" width="1280" height="829" ></figure>Designers of the <a href="https://phsonline.org/the-flower-show">Philadelphia Flower Show</a> hope to “jolt” visitors with a burst of colorful blooms at the upcoming 2023 show, then immerse them in some of the biggest gardens built in the show’s nearly two-century history.“The Garden Electric” is the theme of this year’s show, which heads back inside in the Pennsylvania Convention Center March 4-12 after two years of COVID-dictated June shows outside in the city’s FDR Park.The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, the producer of what is the world’s biggest, longest-running indoor flower show, unveiled details of the 2023 show at a press conference Monday at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.“This year, we’re working hard to create a cohesive and fully immersive experience for show attendees,” said Seth Pearsoll, PHS’s creative director. “Design choices are intentionally being made to mimic the feel of being outdoors in nature by creating larger displays that surround guests.”The show’s main entrance will lead visitors to a transparent but gray-hued mesh that hints at the gardens inside. Once they enter the mesh scrim, visitors “will experience a jolt of floral magic” that will immerse them “in a 360-degree world of unique floral pairings, textures, light, fragrance, and vibrant colors,” according to PHS.Some of the main-display gardens will cover 2,200 to 2,900 square feet – the largest sizes the show has presented.Also different will be how visitors traverse the gardens. This year’s show will have a winding promenade that aims for a more guided experience throughout the gardens.Some of the main gardens on tap for the 2023 show:<ul><li>A floral display with lighting elements and large-scale barrels brimming with flowers that are “pouring” into a 10-foot tree, designed by the Black Girl Florists Network.</li></ul><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2nDH00_0kOuOpmw00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2nDH00_0kOuOpmw00" width="1280" height="908" ></figure><ul><li>A Studio-54-inspired disco that’s been taken over by tropical foliage and flowers, complete with a floral DJ, bartender, and dancers, designed by Ill Exotics, a Philadelphia boutique shop.</li><li>A 360-degree, mixed-media display featuring projections, music and florals, designed by Jonathan Wright, director of The Garden and Fairbanks Park at Newfields in Indianapolis.</li><li>A display of innovative floral sculptures, designed by Harijanto Setiawan, an architect-turned-florist who won the 2013 Designer of the Year Award given by the president of Singapore.</li><li>An exhibit using locally grown trees and plants to create a twinkling fairy house that’s home to the Peace Fairy who watches over children, designed by Treeline Designz.</li><li>An exhibit showing how gardens can be transformed by focusing on night gardens and plants activated at night with color and scent, designed by Apiary Studio.</li><li>A garden that evokes the “blissfulness of a spring day” by using spring ephemerals, a suspended swing and spiral motifs, designed by Susan Cohan Gardens.</li></ul>The return of the Philadelphia Flower Show to its pre-COVID indoor home will include past familiar features, such as the design displays, the Hamilton Horticourt, and of course, the huge gardener’s marketplace of vendors.This year’s design displays will feature categories in windowsill decoration, doorway decoration, miniature floral design, floral arrangements, pressed plants, botanical jewelry, and more. Blue ribbons are awarded to the top participants in each category.The Hamilton Horticourt is the show within the show that features plants and displays by amateurs. It will be set up this year in a new, central location and will house new competitive classes in forced cut branches, citrus, and several new classes in arrangements, including a new invitational class that will invite top floral designers to compete.The 2023 show will have an enhanced musical component, curated by the Philadelphia-based musical group, SNACKTIME. Performers will include DJ Aktive, artists from RECPhilly and Zeek Burse, and students from the School District of Philadelphia during the show’s family-centric day, Family Frolic.The 2023 show will open at 10 a.m. March 4 to 12 with closing at 7 p.m. most days. Hours are until 8 p.m. on March 4, March 10 and March 11, and until 6 p.m. on March 12.Tickets are on sale now at the <a href="https://tickets.phsonline.org/events">PHS website</a>. Prices are $43.50 online in advance for adults, $30 for students aged 18-24, and $20 for children aged 5-17. Children under age 5 are free.More details on the 2023 Philadelphia Flower Show also are available on the <a href="https://phsonline.org/the-flower-show">show’s website</a>.</div></body>

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Designers of the Philadelphia Flower Show hope to “jolt” visitors with a burst of colorful blooms at the upcoming 2023 show, then immerse them in some of the biggest gardens built in the show’s nearly two-century history. “The Garden Electric” is the theme of this year’s show,...