{"id":516731,"date":"2026-01-15T00:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/516731\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T00:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:56:11","slug":"horticultural-society-teases-the-next-philly-flower-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/516731\/","title":{"rendered":"Horticultural Society teases the next Philly Flower Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As reliable as a groundhog, the 197th Philadelphia Flower Show is now six weeks away, appearing, as it always does, the first week of March at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.\n<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s theme ties into 2026 as the year of <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/series\/philadelphia-250\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">America\u2019s 250th birthday<\/a>, with \u201cRooted: The Origins of American Gardening.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>At the preview event Tuesday, show designer Seth Pearsoll unveiled renderings of what visitors can expect, including the centerpiece display of a fantasy forest floor comprised of moss, stone and sculptural plantings, evoking timelessness and permanence.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverhead, there\u2019s big, giant, sweeping root-like forms adorned with tons of fresh flowers, taking guests into a space and reminding them that gardening is part of a larger thing, bigger than a season, bigger than a trend,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s meant to feel permanent, grounded, calm, intentional.\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<p>Another element of the show will be the American Landscape Showcase, a quad of four tableaus designed by four designers representing different regions of the U.S.: California, Iowa, Maryland and Rhode Island.\n<\/p>\n<p>There will also be an International Floral Showcase with designers from places like Hungary, Belgium, Spain and New Zealand. And, as always, a botanical competition section with prize-winning plants from local professional and amateur gardeners.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat excites me most about this year\u2019s show is how personal it\u2019s going to feel,\u201d Pearsoll said. \u201cEvery exhibitor has approached the theme differently. A lot are drawing from childhood memories. Others are exploring history of plant travel, of nurseries, horticultural origin stories.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As reliable as a groundhog, the 197th Philadelphia Flower Show is now six weeks away, appearing, as it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":516732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,1311,30814,148727,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-516731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-250","13":"tag-philadelphia-flower-show","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115896397671066730","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}