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	Visit Greystone Gardens Click Here The Philadelphia Flower Show 2002 Come and share some of the highlights of our visit to the Show. I took these photographs while we were filming for Home & Backyard... a fun filled show as usual! Saturdays 7pm. This year's program will be aired on 9th and 16th March at 7pm Once again the show was exceptionally good this year and really had some brilliant displays. T o the right you see the main entrance peice that welcomes the 200,000 plus visitors.
Here is a close up of the thousands of orchids that were used in this front entrance piece. It is brightly painted and sets the mood for this year's them entitled the Pleasures of the garden.
	Victorian charm and elegance rise amid fields of lavender and hydrangea in the first of three theme related exhibits visitors will see upon entering the Show. J.Cugliotta Landscaping, NJ, celebrates its 20 anniversary as a major show exhibitor by creating a Victorian summer residence of cheery parlors with five attached gardens individually devoted to fragrance, color, texture, taste and sound. Reminiscent of San Francisco’s “Painted Ladies”, this 27-foot tall post and beam “home” draws viewers into its bright parlors complete with mythical inhabitants going about their daily activities. A willow arcs over the house, and nearby evergreens, birch, and beech serves as the mature anchors to this display.
Wrought iron fence, along with benches and armillary, celebrate the fashion of the time while a sundial marks the hours amid delphiniums, red, white and blue petunias, boxwood, apple trees and daffodils. A kitchen garden of herbs and vegetables surrounded by music and rolling meadows completes this scene of sensory splendor. At 7,600 square feet, this is the largest single exhibit ever mounted at the Show.
	A beautiful arbor decorated with forsythia catches the eye at this exhibit. The flowers this year were in excellent condition. The forcers really had done a brilliant job.
Colorful topiary bunnies and frogs enjoy the pleasures of the garden amidst an array of crocus, tulips, daffodils and hyacinths. A profusion of new buds leap up throughout this garden of bliss, where window boxes brim with color, and are surrounded by climbing clematis, and clusters of new budding azaleas. From rain to shine, the magic of spring is playfully celebrated in this April to May transformation. Each bunny is made up of thousands of pussy willows
	In the late winter season a garden can provide interest to the restless who are weary of dull, gray landscapes. A log cabin retreat is nestled alongside a gurgling stream, embraced by caramel glazed peely bark trees and dressed with shrubs holding swollen scarlet fruit. Continued below Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades, Media, PA 19063
Down the trail, a tall sinuously branched Willow overarches the stream. The winter carpet, inlaid with tawny blends of leaves capped by melting snow traces, reveals blossoms ready to burst into flower. Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades, Media, PA 19063
	“Peace Garden” The natural cycle of the garden from abandonment to rebirth is portrayed among floral draped stone walls and pillars where wisteria laden pergolas and urns spill over with colorful blossoms as a sunken pool and fountain accent the new growth of spring in this final centerpiece display. Presented by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and sponsored by Target, the garden is shown as a place of renewal, reflection, and serenity and sends forth a message to all that hope and new life grow eternal in the garden. The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
More of the Peace garden. I'll be posting more pictures of the show over the next few days. Come back and see what was happening.