All Flower Show All The Time, Part Two

[lblanchard]

The Flower Show is dead. Long live the Macy's Flower Show.

A day or so after I finished processing my Flower Show photos the Macy's Flower Show opened. It's called the secret garden, and some of it's quite wonderful.

Here, have a photo or six. If you click on this first one, it will take you to the first photo in my set of 73 photos. pameladean, please note: one of the "bouquets of the day" is actually a hybrid dollhouse/treehouse, very cool.

I'm enjoying my modest hippeastrum show at home, and the seven buds on my nopalxochia continue to fill out. It is rumored that it will reach the mid-60s today but I am skeptical.

Comments

[pameladean]

Oh, wow, that's amazing. I was leaning forward, closer and closer to the screen as I scrolled down the photo, and then suddenly the sign leapt out -- Do Not Touch. Okay then!

P.

[clindau.livejournal.com]

We went to the Mpls Macy's Flower Show yesterday. Big Mistake; the whole world was lined up to get in. (After the winter we've had though, I completely understand...) The line moved along nicely, but once we reached the entrance to the show itself, everyone stopped to take pictures of the woman in red. It felt like we were in IKEA, with the crowd taking (or not taking) us along a prescribed path. It was hard to see anything through the selfie-takers. Also, many strollers and wheelchairs.

We made for the exit as fast as we could. It wasn't all bad; the smell of freesia was lovely, and I bumped into some people I haven't seen in a while.

If we manage to get there again, it will NOT be a weekend afternoon. Lesson learned. Laura, is the Philly show on the sales floor, or in a separate area?

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

I am loving that "lady in red".
It's all really quite lovely>!

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Word among the floral designers who hear this kind of gossip is that all the other Ladies in Red are much bigger but that ours is the nicest. Did you happen to snap a shot of Madame Minneapolis? (of course, Google probably has one)

Edited to add: it's on the sales floor, by the Eagle -- in the Grand Court area, with Ladies' Shoes on one side and costume jewelry and watches on the other. If you look at the overhead view, you can see the shoes and the jewelry counters.

Edit 2: but you can't see the Lady in Red in the overview shot. At the very bottom of that shot you can see the tippy-top of the trees that form her backdrop, but I'd have had to shoot straight down to get her and that wouldn't have been terribly splendid. You can, however, see her surrounded by shoes here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lblanchard/13497274924/in/set-72157643127896815/

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

If you click that photo, it will lead you to about a dozen more that I shot of that installation. Click the left arrow and you get the overview (taken from the mezzanine). Click the right arrow and you get of wee details.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

The "Lady in Red" was designed and installed by the talented Sue White of Burke Brothers Landscaping Design/Build. (They did the Getty Museum exhibit at the Phila Flower Show.) Bill Schaffer saw her struggling to capture it with her cell phone and directed her to my Lady in Red set on Facebook -- as a result we've become FB friends. So my Flower Show family expands by one more.

[chakolate.livejournal.com]

Are these professionally done, or the work of talented amateurs?

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Professionally done. The overall garden installation and Lady in Red were done by Burke Brothers Landscape Design/Build (with the Lady in Red done by Sue White). The two bouquets of the day are by Carole Powers Gordon and Schaffer Designs, both professional designers. Gordon did all the painting on the dollhouse, too. She does soup-to-nuts event planning as well as floral design.