Flower power in winter: Philadelphia Flower Show features 23 floral designers from around the world

This year's Philadelphia Flower Show features 23 floral designers from around the world

Held at the Pennsylvania Convention Centre, the Philadelphia Flower Show (above). features displays by designers such as Ohio-based Nick McCullough.
Held at the Pennsylvania Convention Centre, the Philadelphia Flower Show (above) features displays by designers such as Ohio-based Nick McCullough. PHOTOS: WASHINGTON POST
Held at the Pennsylvania Convention Centre, the Philadelphia Flower Show features displays by designers such as Ohio-based Nick McCullough (above).
Held at the Pennsylvania Convention Centre, the Philadelphia Flower Show features displays by designers such as Ohio-based Nick McCullough (above). PHOTOS: WASHINGTON POST
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PHILADELPHIA • From afar, Mr Nick McCullough's display at this year's Philadelphia Flower Show is dense with June-flowering perennials and there is something of the English cottage garden about it.

But close up, he wants viewers to be transported to the stage of Woodstock - yes, the Woodstock music festival in 1969 - looking out to a sea of tie-dyed, peace-loving children of Aquarius, reincarnated almost 50 years on as astilbes, yarrows, salvias and coneflowers.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on March 09, 2019, with the headline Flower power in winter: Philadelphia Flower Show features 23 floral designers from around the world. Subscribe