A2B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 22,1980
Down the primrose path at Phila. Flower Show
BY JOYCE BUPP
Staff Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA - If
physicians had to prescribe
a cure to the March winter
weary woes, few remedies
could beat a visit to the
Pennsylvania Horticultural
Society’s annual ex
travaganza at the Cmc
Center, the famed
Philadelphia Flower Show.
From the green vines
dangling from miles of wire
cnss-crossing the ceiling to
the fresh blades of grass m
yards of neatly trimmed sod,
the March 9-16 Flower Show
was a five-acre bursting
explosion of life, color and
fragrance.
Attendance matched the
masses of plants and crowds
of visitors a half-dozen deep
elbowed for room before the
impeccably groomed land
scapes of hills, trees,
blooming shrubs and
splashing waters.
Established as an
educational event, the
displays included sections by
various horticulture groups,
educational institutions,
floral and landscape nur
series, and a large trade
mart with 130 commercial
sales booths.
A special feature each
year is the creation of a
unique entrance display,
which greets visitors as they
step off the escalator that
drops down from the street
level floor to the main
exhibit floor. Planners
outdid even themselves this
year, coming up with not
one, but four, major eye
catchers
Allied Florists, an industry
organization, staged a giant
floral fountain, ten feet high
and cascading into three
descending tiers overflowing
with fresh Spring blooms m
every shade of the rainbow.
There were islands of
brilliantly colored
delphiniums and primroses
and a pool freshened daily
with one hundred glistening
white gardenia blooms.
But visitor’s Qashcubes
popped most frequently at a
carousel of topiary animals.
Designed in ivy that had
been trained over mesh
wire, the delightful animal
shapes included a giraffe,
alligator, spouting whale,
peacock, coded snake, and
squirrel, with a revolving
Wmme-the-Pooh character,
complete with “hunny pot,”
m the center.
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Pennsylvania, Delaware and
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variety of houseplant and
floral arrangement classes
in the Horticourt. Many of
the fresh designs were
judged and changed daily, m
order to allow as many
entrants as possible to
complete in the eight-day
show.
Lanes of visitors are the
rule at most of the displays,
but one of the longest queued
up past classed of immature
landscapes. Displayed in
eye-level glassed enclosures,
the intricately detailed
scenes are scaled to a one
twelfth size in 40-mch-wide
by 18-mch-deep by 30-mch
high niches. Down to tiny
picket fences, vegetable
plants and hanging baskets,
the scenes mclude live
rooted plant materials, all
selected and grown to the
scale of the landscape.
Several educational
groups constructed exhibits
of a teaching nature. Penn
State University focused on
the concept of Integrated
Pest Management, with
demonstrations of the use of
non-chemical garden pest
controls. Insect traps and
natural pest predators, like
ladybugs, are key
ingredients in bug battling
with IPM techniques.
Philadelphia’s Water
Department showed visitors
the use of a recycled garden
aid. Dubbed “Philorgamc,”
the soil additive is a by
product of the city’s
municipal waste-water
treatment plants, and can be
used on both indoor and
outdoor plants.
Horticulture students at
the Lincoln High School
constructed a visual display
which they labeled “Support
Your Local Plant,”
featuring simple methods of
staking trees and perennials
for better growth.
Delaware Valley College
of Science and Agriculture's
horticulture majors filled a
walk-through section with a
myriad of ways to preserve
and use dried plant
materials.
Especially popular with
the thousands in the crowd
were the orchid displays. At
the exhibit staged by Waldor
Ochids of Lmwood, New
Jeisey, several dozen types,
blooming m a range of
colors, were integrated into
a re-created Old Mission of
San Juan, backed by the
giant bells of Capistrano.
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