Macy’s Flower Show
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- March
- 27
If I’m in the neighborhood, I always make it a point to swing through the annual Macy’s Flower Show in the Herald Square store.
The two-week show is held on the first floor amid all the display cases, near the Broadway/6th Avenue entrance. The store was packed yesterday. You can really see how lousy the dollar is faring—tons of foreign tourists/shoppers.
This giant flower basket greets you as soon as you come through the door. It’s a replica of the store’s famed exterior.
The show runs through Sunday. It helps to be tall. Almost all of the “gardens” are up above the merchandise.
Lots of azaleas and hydrangeas.
Matterhorn Nursery in Pomona was in charge of the show for several years. I remember Noah Schwartz, the head grower there, telling me they had to swap everything out on the Saturday night between the two weeks to keep things looking fresh.
Daffodils.
My favorite thing in the show is this replica of the Enid Haupt Conservatory at the New York Botanical Garden.
The other side.
Lots of cherry trees on the floor.
Here was the bouquet of the day yesterday, by Bill Tansey.
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
Bill-
I missed the show this year for the first time in a very long time- and am so pleased to have been able to take a ‘tour’ with these photos.
I love the conservatory, too,—and that bouquet of the day- amazing.
Thanks for posting all this.
Mary
Thanks Mary. Maybe you can go in my place next year!