KCECH, Biosphere and the Garden Club are organizing a trip to the “Best Flower Show in the World” this Tuesday March 3rd. We will gather and leave for the show at 4pm. Those who can’t make it on Tuesday can still use the ticket for another day between Tuesday and the end of the show on March 8.

The Philadelphia Flower Show is held in the Pennsylvania Convention Center (arch and 12^th Street). We will subsidize the tickets and transportation tokens. Your cost is $ 10 (real coast is $30).

If you are interested reply to this email or bokreta@upenn.edu  with your choice of the day.

The PHS Philadelphia Flower Show is the nation's largest and longest-running horticultural event and features stunning displays by the world’s premier floral and landscape designers. Started in 1829 by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, the show introduces diverse and sustainable plant varieties and garden and design concepts. The Philadelphia Flower Show has been honored as the best event in the world by the International Festivals & Events Association, competing with events such as the Kentucky Derby Festival, Tournament of Roses Parade, Indianapolis 500 Festival, and other international celebrations.

For more info about the show take a look at the link:

https://theflowershow.com/about/2020-flower-show-theme/

This year’s theme of the show is:

Riviera Holiday

Inspired by the world’s exotic Mediterranean gardens, the 2020 Philadelphia Flower Show invites you to fall in love with gardening all over again.As you enter the Show, groves of Citrus trees lead the way providing a lush dramatic promenade to the sunshine drenched landscape ahead.   Breathe in fragrant waves of lavender inspired by the terraced gardens of Monaco. Drifts of purple and white spiked salvia, specimen succulents and, an intoxicating variety of scented geraniums, roses, rosemary and sage create a stunning mosaic that is at once picturesque and charming. Walk the esplanade of flowering arches. Become enraptured by the delightful dimension of Show gardens and dramatic accents that rise in soft meadows of horticultural perfection. Explore the allure and extraordinary plant palette of some of the world’s captivating coastal regions.