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 year's PHS theme celebrated garden history of "Rooted Origins of American Gardening". The many designers and teams put together a stunningly beautiful "magical forest" show entrance and exhibits throughout the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
Harry and I both especially loved Temple University's award winning exhibit, which featured urban landscape architecture celebrating the Delaware Valley's rich botanical and cultural heritage.
Terracotta pots overflowed with harvests of sweet potatoes and apples that fit in perfectly with the surrounding native landscape, water streams and blooming plants.
The Temple display also showed canning jars in a cleaver way, creating a wall of glass. Some of the jars were used for dried herbs and corn.
See the link at the bottom of this post for more on the story told in their well-designed exhibit, which also featured a basket of oyster shells. 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.
The 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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