More Flowers

The 2016 Philadelphia Flower Show was the first for Patty and I as a couple. The theme was National Parks, as 2016 was the hundredth anniversary of the National Park Service.

And unlike this year's show, the theme was obvious throughout.

And there seemed to be more flowers. I know right, flowers at a flower show. Go figure.

Much more colorful than this year, but not as much as the 2017 show.

Perhaps the best exhibit was that for Yellowstone.

Although they should have had a working geyser methinks.

Boomtown Bear by Emily White

I forget which park the bear was in (maybe someone's garden now as it was for available for purchase).

National Park was interpreted somewhat liberally, as seen here ...

... in an exhibit of where I live. No, not the house; obviously that's home to the Jersey Devil. Rather the Pinelands National Reserve. Of which our home is at the western edge, just inside the Reserve.

Or here, with this house that was for a National Historic Site, if I recall correctly.

Speaking of taking liberties ...

I've been in several caves, both national and state parks, and I've yet to see flowers in one.

I'm not sure what these next two were going for.

But they did catch my eye.

This was the year of the Death Valley Super-Bloom.

I'm not sure that the folks who put together this exhibit had actually seen it. Nor the judges that gave it gold and blue prize ribbons.

Not our house either.

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I forget what started us thinking about going to the flower show. Probably we wanted a bit of color during winter. And when we looked into it it made sense to become PHS members. So we joined. And then the super bloom happened and we jetted off to Death Valley. So the show was a bit of pale imitation to the real thing.

Not unlike the super-bloom exhibit.