Boston Flower Show 2018: Floral Displays & Selected Vendors

Boston Flower Show 2018 posts:

 

[For introductory information on the 2018 Boston Flower Show, please check out the Intro post!]

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FLORAL DISPLAYS

There are always about a dozen floral design competitions hosted by the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, plus a judged photography exhibit overseen by Mass Hort, both with set themes such as — this year — Swan Boats, Opening Day!, Field of Green, St. Patrick’s Day, Mother’s Day Breakfast in Bed, and so on.

These were my favourites.

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“Boating on the Charles” Cascade design
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“Boating on the Charles” Cascade design – clever use of foliage (I think) to suggest the boat
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“Mother’s Day Tray for One” with a retro French coffee press
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“Swan Boat” display — those veronicas or veronicastrums perfectly suggest swan necks, and the overall effect is gorgeous
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St. Patrick’s Day – two of the displays have hardly any plant material in them
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Potting Shed competition entrant
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another Potting Shed competition entrant
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yet another Potting Shed competition entrant

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VENDORS

I don’t spend much time in the vendor aisles (which take up more floor space than the garden exhibits unfortunately), except to taste the wares, which this year included delectable cracked green and kalamata olives; sweet and savory jellies; interesting sweet, savory, and salty cookies; dried cranberries; herbal dips, dressings, and marinades; olive oils and vinegars; honey. Usually there are also teas, smoothies, and wines but there were no drinks to sample this time, .

Herewith, the handful of vendors (besides the seed company I noted in the edible gardening section) that amused me or offered something I thought was interesting, delicious, or useful:

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Rocky Hall apiaries
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Savor (that’s the company’s name): sweet, savory, and salty cookies with ginger, lime, chai, hot peppers, coconut, and so on. Quite good!
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mushroom inoculation kits
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Dafni cracked green olives at the Lakonia Greek Products booth … yum!
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the folks selling rain barrels had this interesting and attractive idea
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Beverly Bees (Beverly MA) — They come remove bees from your attic or shed! Also wasps, but they’re not so friendly to the wasps.

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Finally, these roses for sale were just sweet.

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Featured image at top of page: painting of Narragansett lager beer for sale: Made on Honor, Sold on Merit. 

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