The 2025 Philadelphia Flower Show had another amazing event full of floral artistry and inspiration.
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Philadelphia Flower Show Highlights from “Garden of Tomorrow”
By Jill Brooke
The 2025 Philadelphia Flower Show announced its winners for for the “Garden of Tomorrow” – and I couldn’t be more thrilled.
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) announced that Jennifer Reed, of Jennifer Designs Events, took the Best in Show for her enchanting installation called “Welcoming Wildlife Home.”
This whimsical floral exhibit features large animals and insects crafted from plant materials gathered at a dining table. It highlights the crucial role of wildlife in maintaining a healthy ecosystem and demonstrates how thoughtful plant choices and habitat creation support biodiversity and ecological balance.
“I never won Best in Show before,” said Reed, who has taken home many golds over the years.
Best in Show for Landscaping was awarded to Mark Cook Landscaping for their exhibit, “Signature of Time.” This unique garden design reflects the journey of life through a blend of architecture, color, texture, and plants from diverse time zones. Tropical and perennial plantings evoke past experiences, while the evolving landscape showcases nature’s ability to transform.
The landscape exhibit receiving the second-highest number of points was Ishihara Kazuyuki Design Lab and Treeline Designz. Flowers for the future.
Other exhibitors showed how flowers are laboratories for possibility including this one from Robertson’s Flowers which I particularly loved.
The American Institute of Floral Designer’s (AIFD) installation was very sculptural in its feel. Liked how these artists used balls with just a few flowers to make an impact.
Bill Schaffer designs called their exhibit Nexus – the road to the future by respecting the past.
There was even an exhibit about the future of fashion using botanicals.
One installation was called “Skyward Bloom” by Lily Beelen. “The futuristic flower is an ode to the incredible ability of nature to create flowering beauty in the most difficult environments,” she says. “Five crescent-shaped petals unfurl elegantly around a central pillar. Each seed symbolizes a glimpse of a hopeful tomorrow.” We certainly like that idea and the installation.
Arrange’s “Thanks for the Meadow” was an exhibit that just delighted the senses with so many pops of colors. The variety of the flowers was designed to show how flowers are “a bridge to the community.”
“We are thrilled to celebrate the creativity and vision of the designers who brought this year’s Flower Show to life. Through cutting-edge design and thoughtful plant choices, these designers remind us that our gardens are not just reflections of today, but also powerful tools for creating more sustainable, biodiverse, and connected communities tomorrow,” stated PHS’s Vice President and Creative Director of the Flower Show, Seth Pearsoll.
Meanwhile, Pearsoll’s opening exhibit in the entrance was breathtaking as well featuring an array of spring flowers – circular alliums that looked like little planets, hyacinths and daffodils, and magenta orchids dangling from the sky in rectangular objects that looked both futuristic and inviting.
The 2025 Philadelphia Flower Show is taking place from March 1-9. The award-winning PHS Philadelphia Flower Show is the nation’s largest and the world’s longest-running horticultural event, featuring stunning displays by some of the world’s premier floral and landscape designers. Started in 1829 by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, the Show introduces diverse and sustainable plant varieties and garden and design concepts. In addition to acres of garden displays, the Flower Show hosts world-renowned competitions in horticulture and artistic floral arranging, gardening presentations and demonstrations, and special events.
Among the other highlights were an ikebana exhibit and gardeners bringing in their favorite house plants to be judged by experts. Other flower categories were also included such as amaryllis. Plus a butterfly exhibition attracted many people to watch live butterflies float all around them and co-exist with humans.
One of the new additions to the show was Kimberly Hodges. The North Carolina artist creates logo-like flowers to be inserted in acryllic stands that are not only delightful gifts but works of art.
Plus there are many opportunities to not only buy bulbs – which I did – but learn about flower growing, planting and care. The show also invites amateur gardeners and schools to participate in their vision of the future.
As big as three football fields, the annual show is a wonderful way to spend the day and attracts 200,000 visitors each year. As I’ve said many times, this is the best flower show in the world.
Jill Brooke is a former CNN correspondent, Post columnist and editor-in-chief of Avenue and Travel Savvy magazine. She is an author and the editorial director of FPD and a contributor to Florists Review magazine. She also won the 2023 AIFD (American Institute of Floral Designers.) Merit Award for showing how flowers impact history, news and culture
Photo Credit: Jill Brooke, Flower Power Daily
