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February 21, 2008

Flower show is fantastic!

Journal photo / Frieda Squires
Eddie Sanchez, Providence, does final cleaning for the Cleanscape exhibit, "Unless" by Dr. Seuss. The Rhode Island Spring Flower and Garden Show's theme is "Fairy tales" and runs Thursday through Sunday at the R.I. Convention Center, Providence.

I got an early glimpse of this year's Rhode Island Spring Flower & Garden Show last night at the "Taste of the Flower Show" preview party, and I think the designers really had fun with this year's theme, Fairy Tales.

I always recommend going, as an antidote to winter. There's something encouraging about seeing daffodils and crabapple trees in bloom in February that allows me to make it through the last few weeks of this bleak season.

This year's show, which interprets the "fairy tale" broadly to include classics like Sleeping Beauty (last night a slightly restless young beauty who could be seen munching on crudites) as well as Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax" The Hobbit's lair in a foxglove-rich landscape. Other gardens (some of which did not yet appear to have all their signs up) depicted not a single story, but a theme from fantasy.

The Wild Plant Society, which always does a lovely job, chose a Native American theme "The Legend of the Lady Slipper," telling a story on a path that winds through their wooded exhibit.

I am watching the first coaches pulling up at the door of the Convention Center now. The show runs through Sunday evening.

For more information, including ticket information, opening hours and schedules of speakers and demonstrations, visit www.flowershow.com

Gallery: See more photos of the show.

Posted by Paula Constantine  at 9:36 AM | Permalink

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