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What to expect at the 2016 Philadelphia Flower Show - PhillyVoice.com

Pennsylvania Horticulture Society (PHS) programs, with around 4,000 volunteers creating this year's show.As for exhibits, read on for a preview of what to expect at the 2016 Flower Show.Big Timber LodgeMeant to look like guests have just entered into the forest, huge tree trunks reach to the ceiling behind large suspended screens that will play videos from national parks across the country. Some will be time-lapse videos that show a full day in the wilderness. As guests immerse themselves in the video, music and the sounds of birds will play, scents from woodland flowers and plants will drift through and friendly National Park Service Rangers will be on hand (just look for the flat-brimmed hat).It's all set up by PHS to transport visitors from the Convention Center corridor into the great American landscape. "Explore America" lets guests do just that, through meticulously designed exhibits based on national parks ranging from Valley Forge to Death Valley."We want visitors to see this show and [be inspired] to go visit the real park," PHS President Matt Rader stated during a media preview on March 3.Yellowstone National ParkThom Carroll/PhillyVoiceTwo exhibits at the 2016 PHS Philadelphia Flower Show “Yellowstone - After the Fire‘‘ and “Charred! The Resurrection of Habitat‘‘ focus on forest fire education.The exhibit to the right of the main entrance, created by Stoney Bank Nurseries, takes on one of the most well-known national parks. However, the subject the landscape arrangement touches on is more obscure. We all know from Smokey Bear that we should prevent wildfires, but sometimes a fire is good. Plants and flowers can become renewed. Hawai'i Volcanoes National ParkThom Carroll/PhillyVoiceTropical flowers bloom in both the exhibit inspired by the Hawai'i Volcan... http://www.phillyvoice.com/flower-show-2016-preview/

Your guide to the Philadelphia Flower Show - Allentown Morning Call

The centerpiece of the show is Big Timber Lodge, a wood and stone building decorated with immersive panoramas of the great American landscape, Native American-inspired art reminiscent of the expansive lodges at national parks such as Yosemite, floral totems, a 12-foot waterfall, giant redwoods and life-size American buffalo and grizzly bear sculptures by Emily White. Visitors will be welcomed by National Park Service rangers. The exhibit employs multimedia to bring to life the sights and sounds of the parks.People can follow three trails to explore other exhibits. Hunter Hayes Landscape Design of Ardmore, for example, is creating a large display honoring Valley Forge National Historical Park, and Stoney Bank Nurseries in Glen Mills will show off an exhibit inspired by Yellowstone. Subaru, a premier sponsor of the Flower Show, is in charge of the Yosemite site.Visitors "will see a landscape created that captures the spirit, the essence of that park," Jaffe says.In the "Find Your Park Pavilion," you can meet park rangers from around the country in person and by webcast.New this year is the Railway Garden, a model railroad display of Bachmann Trains, which will chug around tracks laced through miniaturized American landscapes, including the iconic Mount Rushmore ($5).What would gardens be without butterflies? Visitors can interact with more than 1,000 butterflies at the "Butterflies Live!" exhibit, which has become a favorite stop for families ($3). Twenty species of the colorful critters will be in the exhibit room and patrons can hold a Q-Tip with nectar to attract the butterflies for a closer look.Those looking to create their own floral art can visit the Make & Take Room and construct a headpiece modeled after Mount Rushmore. Use seeds and plants to build "crafty critters" — animals you would find in national parks. Each of those projects costs $10. Or make your own terrarium for $20.For those who love the flowers but can't stomach the crowds, there are morning tours at 8 a.m. March 7-11 in which a guide will take 10-15 people through the show before it opens to the public. That tour is $85 or $105, with flower show admission. Reservations are recommended.There are also early-morning tours for photographers, lead by nationally known photographers, for $125, including show admission.The show includ... http://www.mcall.com/features/mc-philadelphia-flower-show-20160302-story.html

2016 Philadelphia Flower Show taking its inspiration from the National Park Service - PennLive.com (blog)

Center, 12th and Arch streets, Philadelphia.Trails will lead visiting "explorers" through three dozen display gardens, and the main entrance will re-create a classic wood-and-stone, western-park "Big Timber Lodge" with floral totem poles, sculpted animals and what the show bills as a "dazzling waterfall."The Philadelphia Flower Show is the world's biggest and oldest indoor flower show, heralding the end of winter since 1829.Each year it takes on a different theme. Last year's "Celebrate the Movies" theme drew 250,000 visitors over its 9-day run. (See a photo gallery of that show.)This year's "Explore America" theme pays homage to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the National Park Service.National Park landscapes will inspire the display gardens in the 2016 Philadelphia Flower Show. Pennsylvania Horticultural Society That will translate into landscape displays featuring meadow wildflowers, pine and redwood forests, coastal wetlands and desert blooms – in short, the diverse variety that makes up the park system.Stoney Bank Nurseries of Glen Mills, for example, will build a landscape showing life resprouting after a Yellowstone wildfire.Waldor Orchids of Linwood, N.J., will build a tropical orchid garden inspired by Hawaii's Volcanoes National Park.Hunter Hayes Landscape Design of Ardmore will build a scene showing what George Washington's Valley Forge encampment might have looked like years later wh... http://blog.pennlive.com/gardening/2016/02/2016_philadelphia_flower_show_1.html

Flower Farming: Passiflora Farm specializes in flowers, from seed to centerpiece - Powell Tribune

South America.”She’s excited to bring the movement to rural Wyoming. Passiflora Farm is the only flower farm in the area. There are a few in Bozeman, Montana, and also one in Sheridan.“It’s fairly new, even in the region,” she said.In addition to doing flowers for weddings and events, Passiflora Farm does wholesale flowers, selling in Billings, Red Lodge, Cody and Powell. Local residents can become CSA (community supported agriculture) members, buying a “share” of the farm’s flowers.On a warm August afternoon, Urick walked through the field and hoop house, explaining each section and the flowers’ unique traits. She pointed to a row of coveted Cafe au Lait dahlias.“They’re dinner-plate size, so they’re huge, and they vary in color from ivory to cream to blush, even lavender,” Urick said.Nearby are sweet peas, which loved the cooler weather this season. She plans to save the seeds for future seasons.“It’s really hard to find these seeds,” she explained. “You’d have to go through England, so now we have some American farmers like myself who are saving our own seed and kind of hoping to build that stock up here in the U.S.”The heirloom flowers are kind of old-fashioned, Urick said, but becoming popular again.span clas... http://www.powelltribune.com/stories/flower-farming-passiflora-farm-specializes-in-flowers-from-seed-to-centerpiece,20631

How does Encore Boston Harbor keep its flowers so fresh? Meet the shrub whisperer - The Boston Globe

You’re at Encore.”If casino flowers as transformational sounds like a load of corporate hooey — and it does — spend an hour or two with Chadwick, a redwood tree of a man with a quiet demeanor, a Montana accent, and nearly 40 employees in his department.First, he’ll hit you with the numbers. There are 900 trees, 100,000 shrubs, and 55,000 flowers — and that’s just outside.Inside, mingling with the slot machines and table games, the conference space and hotel rooms, are 4,000 potted flowers, many of which are switched out daily, all of which are swapped every two weeks. Special color schemes are coming for the fall, Christmas, Chinese New Year, and spring.“The lobby also evolves as the seasons evolve,” he said.Mums surrounded a decorative urn in the lobby at the casino.(David L. Ryan/Globe Staff)Amid the array of flowers are 4,000 pots of foliage plants, including 95 kentia palms, native to Australia.Each of the casino’s 671 hotel rooms have at least one plant. More than 120 have a five-orchid arrangement. The top-end rooms have even more greenery.All the casino resort’s plant razzle-dazzle isn’t something you can just go and buy at Mahoney’s. Chadwick and his team of gardeners, florists, supervisors, and managers plan and plan and plan, he said.AdvertisementThey purchase flowers about a year in advance and work with a range of ve... https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/08/18/everett-casino-charge-green/0IdI0WQBNr1CF6KiDWeYtM/story.html

BBB consumer warning: Graduation gifts that never arrive - KTVZ

There are local, independent BBBs across the United States, Canada and Mexico, including BBB Northwest + Pacific, which serves more than 15 million consumers across Alaska, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Hawaii and Western Wyoming. https://www.ktvz.com/news/bbb-consumer-warning-graduation-gifts-that-never-arrive/1083986113

'The Fire Within': 9 years of honoring Great Falls women in business - Great Falls Tribune

Crocker who kept his nomination a secret. "I was shocked...I had no idea," she said. "It was pretty humbling. There's a lot of pretty amazing people in Great Falls, Montana, and so to know people thought I was doing something awesome felt really good." The Good Wood Guys live by their words as "born ra... https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2019/04/01/the-fire-within-9-years-honoring-great-falls-women-business/3314905002/