ROOTED at the Philadelphia Flower Show
Welcome to GardenCuizine's 2026 Philadelphia Flower Show (PHS) post. I'm proud to announce that my Bee Seated photograph tied for a second place ribbon at this years flower show!
This years PHS theme was "Rooted Origins of American Gardening". The many designers and teams put together a beautiful show entrance and exhibits throughout.
We both especially loved the award winning Temple University exhibit, which featured urban landscape architecture celebrating the Delaware Valleys rich botanical heritage.
Terracotta pots overflowed with harvests of sweet potatoes and apples that fit in perfectly with the surrounding native landscape, stream and blooming plants.
The Temple display also showed canning jars in a cleaver way creating a wall of glass.
See the link at the bottom of this post for more on the story told in their well designed exhibit.They featured a basket of oyster shells to repurpose. We know oysters are a sustainable food.
Helpful tips were provided on how to repurpose and recycle materials such as plants, lumber and concrete that may be already in your own backyard.
One category was Dwelling for birds and their nests.
A category that I entered was Class 197, "Legacy" that featured pollinators. Several photos included bees, two featured hummingbirds. And another showed a grasshopper!
The bee seated on the purple aster is my photo! I took it last September in our front yard with my macro lens. I said on the attached card shown, "Native asters beautify our yard year after year, providing a late season food source to visiting pollinators including bees and butterflies."
Diana Wind
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Temple at the Philadelphia Flower Show
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