Spring Flower Show: A Closer Look
Discover colorful features and fragrant flora in Phipps' Spring Flower Show.
Spring Flower Show always provides the burst of color and fragrance you've been missing all winter long and this year’s Spring Flower Show: A Closer Look promises even more vibrance than ever!
Now open and only lasting four weeks, these stunning displays are a must-see to jump-start your season of renewal. With magnifying glasses stationed throughout, you'll be able to admire the details of beautiful blooms in a rainbow of shades. With fragrant flowers and serene sounds of the springtime, your senses are sure to be delighted!
Exhibit Features
- Delight at tens of thousands of spring blooms, including tulips, narcissus and hyacinths, in brilliant shades of yellow, orange, blue and more
- Gaze into rotating kaleidoscopes showcasing striking purple and red blooms
- Enjoy a spinning geometric sculpture bursting with violet, hot pink and orange in the center of our Victoria Room pond
- Look through a pair of binoculars to spot perched model blue birds amongst topiary deer and foxes
- Marvel at an array of chrysalid sculptures and an amazing animatronic butterfly flapping its wings in the Broderie Room
- Watch topiary ants march toward a larger-than-life picnic scene atop a blanket made of alternating red and white hypoestes
- Journey through a rainy day as the Serpentine Room bursts with blue flora below motion-activated rain clouds
- And much more!
Spring Flower Show Valet Services
Valet services will be available on the following dates during Spring Flower Show for a $10 flat rate.
- Saturdays and Sundays, March 23, 24, 30, 31 April 6, 7, 13, 14; 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
- Fri., March 29; 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Spring Flower Show: A Closer Look, designed by Associate Director of Exhibits Jordyn Melino, runs March 16 – April 14.
Photos © Paul g. Wiegman, Paul Vladuchick, Phil Johnson ll
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