Rooted

The theme of this year's Philadelphia Flower Show is "Rooted: Origins of American Gardening." I was afraid the exhibitors were going to have trouble with this one, and they sure did, but more about that another day.

Today I'll just show you the main entrance which is always supposed to be the spectacular first glimpse. That said, It's impossible to show it without a lot of people in the way. The Philadelphia Horticultural Society does the entrahce garden. I'm not sure what this has to do with roots. I even watched a video about it, and it talks about complexity and layers and textures, but not roots except that the framework for the flowers is supposed to look like roots.

However, it was packed with color and plant material. This section will really make you hanker after spring.

Most of the entrance stuff was red to purple, some with the aid of lighting.

Here's a closer view of one of those "roots" that are decorated with dense plant material.

And where the flowers and the lighting intersected things got interesting.

We stayed for 6 hours. I missed some things I usually try to visit, but we all ran out of steam. As usual, I'll continue to intermingle Flower Show blog posts with other things of interest that happened until I run out of things to show.

I have no idea how far I walked. It always has to be quite a lot, but it doesn't get counted. I think a mile just to get from where we could park to the convention center and back, not counting looking at exhibits.

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