Find Your If your looking for the Virginia Flower & Garden Show in January, you’re a little early. Normally held in January each year, the Virginia Flower & Garden Show is partnering with the Mid-Atlantic Home and Garden show to create a bigger and better Mid-Atlantic Home and Flower Show and will take place February 15-17, 2008. This show offers an abundance of home, garden and flower exhibits and merchandise. This year’s “Sensusous Garden” theme promises a celebration of the senses through the landscaping and flower displays slated for the show. Several competitions are on tap for the show including front door, container gardening and floral arranging divisions. In fact, the most anticipated contest is the Floral Challenge – back by popular demand. The Floral Challenge has three competitive divisions: (1) beginners; (2)garden clubs and experienced floral designers; (3)professional floral designers and local florists. This contest is a fabulous way to see the creative nature of show attendees and the beauty of flowers at the same time. So if you love flowers and are in Virginia Beach, Virginia on Febraury 15th, 16th or 17th, check out the Mid-Atlantic Home and Flower Show.
2008 Brings Big Changes to Virginia Flower & Garden Show
January 4, 2008 by
Are you sure this show is for Floral Shops and designers? Do the people who scheduled this have any idea that February 14th and the two weeks leading up to it are the busiest time in ANY florsit’s life and that the 15th through the 17th is clean up and recovery time? Shame on them
Jennifer, the dates are not a good time for most florists exhausted after a hectic Valentine’s Day. Although the floral challenge has a professional floral designer division, this flower show is open to everyone. Many of the flower and garden shows across the nation are geared toward the consumer’s enjoyment giving florists, landscapers, flower shops, and master gardener programs a venue in which to introduce the masses to their wonderful industry. These shows differ from trade shows and industry floral designer shows and the organizer may not always think of the other side of the coin. I’m sure the blending of the two shows probably lead to the February dates with each show making compromises. Hopefully, next year the date will fall at a better time for florists.