2008 Landscape Displays

African Violet Society of Philadelphia, King of Prussia, PA 19406
Contact: Carol Hastings (610) 272-6961
Violets and All That Jazz
The movie “All that Jazz” and the recent changes in blossom and leaf patterns in African violets provide inspiration for this exhibit. The actors, jazzy African violets, are in the spotlight to show off their new flashy patterns developed through recent hybridization.

American Institute of Floral Designers (AIFD), Franklin Lakes, NJ
Contact:  Ken Norman (201) 675-5946 or Colleen Kelly (570) 785-5322
Traditions of Louisiana
Walk along the grand Mississippi River into the traditions and folklore of old New Orleans and see the region interpreted through flowers.

American Ivy Society, Lionville, PA
Contact: Russell A. Windle (610) 566-7113
A Jazzy Variation of Ivy
New varieties of ivies are found as chance mutations. These jazzy variations are displayed along with their original forms, while ivy covered musical notes dance along the walls.

American Rhododendron Society, Greater Philadelphia Chapter, Philadelphia
Contact: Michael Mills (215) 844-6253
The Bold and the Beautiful
This composition in color consists of a large central pillar surrounded by blooming rhododendrons and azaleas in clumps of bright red, pink, white, yellow and purple. A continuous line of azaleas mounted on a wall create the appearance of a long window box spilling over with color.

Baker Creative, Jenkintown, PA
Contact: Brad Baker (215) 884-4978
Jazz Rocks
Jazz musicians play in the gazebo of a park that features sustainable drainage ideas. The park stonework captures the movement, vibrations and spirit of jazz.

Burke Brothers Landscape Contractors, Inc., Glenside, PA
Contact: Kevin Burke (215) 887-1773, Michele Rich (215) 887-1773
Mood Indigo
Like the jazz arrangement of the same name, best known for unifying the muted sounds of brass and woodwinds, visitors will see a juxtaposition of cool silver foliage, warm red flowers, and sleek, stark architecture softened by delicate hues and weeping branches. Against a backdrop of metasequoias and magnolias, the cannas shine and the coleus pop. Pillars and a wall of dark granite provide the bold framework for the inviting splashes of color and water within. Brightly colored begonia, verbena, and abutilon sizzle, while the adjacent water wall soothes. The scene is as hot as the water is alluring. Containers and lanterns are the accents providing rhythm.

Cabrini College, Radnor, PA
Contact: Dan DiPrinzio (610) 902-8255
OFFICIAL SPONSOR
Inheriting a Vision
A classic garden pergola is jazzed up with a vibrant landscape accentuated with yellows, oranges, reds and blacks emulating a progression from classic to contemporary. The setting depicts the transition of Cabrini College’s landscape from one of the Main Line’s greatest estates to a world-class institution of higher education.

Camden City Garden Club, Inc., Camden, NJ
Contact: Michael Devlin (856) 365-TREE or Tracy Tomchik (856) 365-8733
Children Jazz It Up! With Music, Exercise and Healthy Food
Making music, exercising and eating healthy foods are fun ways for children to “Jazz It Up.” This display features musical instruments that children can play and pieces of equipment for exercise in a playground setting. Children and adults will enter over the “Bridge”. A bandstand will overlook the jazz-a-matazz exercise area. In the “Jazz Café”, children will find the “Veggie Quarter,” with healthy vegetables on display.

Camden County Technical School-Pennsauken Campus, Pennsauken, NJ
Contact: Shawn McKay (856) 663-1040, ext. 7220. Educational Partner: Mantis
A Modern-Day, High-Tech Agricultural Classroom
Sponsored by Mantis Company, this high-tech agricultural classroom will depict garden organics through landscape design. Azaleas, holly, junipers and perennials are just a few of the plants featured. The classroom will show landscape design, drafting tables, laptop computers, and color renderings of student landscape designs.

Delaware County Technical School, Aston, PA
Contact: Warren Anders-Smith (610) 909-3321
Contain Yourself
This exhibit of colorful plant material will help dissect the anatomy of an entertainer. It will offer tips on how to grow plants in a container and how to use a container to match your gardening style.

Delaware Valley College, Department of Ornamental Horticulture and Environmental Design
Doylestown, PA
Contact: Dr. Barbara Muse (215) 489-2287
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
Magnolias glisten in the sunlight. Cool jazz dances through the air. The staccato tempo of water droplets cascades in a fountain as you enter, Chez Celeste. Here, the aroma of Creole herbs and bold Cajun spices beckon you to select a menu card of your favorite New Orleans’ cuisine. This display will surround you with sights, sounds, and fragrances you will not soon forget.

Delaware Valley Fern & Wildflower Society, Philadelphia, PA
Contact: Tom Tomer (215) 887-3683, Oreland, PA 19075
Entrée into Ferns
Welcome to the Hungry Frond, an outdoor café from the 1930s. Guests are invited to develop a taste for ferns.  These diverse plants can be grown indoors and out, and are easy to propagate. Tropical ferns as well as local varieties are shown in a formal setting that can be replicated by gardeners everywhere.

E. P. Henry Corp., Woodbury, NJ
Contact: Jon Bowman (856) 845-6200 or Gina Williams (856) 845-6200
OFFICIAL SPONSOR
The Garden Café
Tranquil fountains, contemporary sculpture and lush foliage abound within the walls of a private garden. Step out on the balcony overlooking the main patio and linger while musicians tune up and prepare to “Laissez les bons temps rouler!”

Fairmount Park Commission, Philadelphia, PA
Contact: Charles Dougherty (215) 683-0223
Splash of Jazz
Cut flowers take the forms of musical notes and jazz instruments in a garden filled with flowering trees, shrubs, colorful perennials and beautiful annuals. A multi-stream, choreographed fountain is at the center of this splashy setting.

Fiskars Garden & Outdoor Living, Sauk City, WI
Contact: Brent McHenry (608) 643-2380
OFFICIALSPONSOR
See and touch a variety of garden tools in this hands-on display that allows visitors to try out some of the newest products on the main Show floor and in the Show Marketplace, Booth # 223 and 318.

Flowers by David, Langhorne, PA
Contact: David and Robin Heller (215) 750-3400
The Color of Music
The connection between music and flowers is evident in this floral display where musical notes waft over a small town square, the site of an afternoon concert. Picnic tables, lawn chairs and blankets await the concert-goers. Roses, gerber daisies, sunflowers, tulips and orchids bloom throughout the delightful scene.

Horticulture Academy at Abraham Lincoln High School, Phila., PA
Contact: Karen Kardon Weber (215) 335-3213
Jazz It Up With Herbs
A New Orleans courtyard café, adorned with raised beds containing trees, shrubs, flowers and herbs, give visitors a glimpse into the culinary contributions of these savory plants.

Hunter Hayes Landscape Design, Ardmore, PA
Contact: W. Hunter Hayes (610) 896-0309
A Place for Reflection
Two soothing reflecting pools provide a sparkling passage to a patio and pergola.  Begonias and tropical plants provide a colorful enhancement to this quiet place of reflection.

Ikebana International, Philadelphia Chapter #71, Sewell, NJ
Contact: Lorraine Toji (856) 757-9719
Ikebana International
A collection of exquisite Japanese flower arrangements honor the five schools of Ikebana -- Ichiyo, Ikenobo, Ohara, Misho and Sogetsu.  The exhibit will encircle a lavish arrangement in sage and lavender. The Ohara School, known for its naturalistic flower arrangements is featured at this year’s Show.

Irwin Landscaping, Inc., Hockessin, DE
Contact: Peter D. Irwin, RLA (302) 239-9229
Jazz on the Bayou
The sounds of jazz permeate the bayou, as a trio of alligators plays syncopated rhythms. The accent and texture of dawn redwoods (metasequoia glyptostroboides) and the deceivingly fragile look of bougainvillea flowers provide an inviting backdrop to the murky water of the bayou and to the showy succulents in the foreground. The ferns and grasses further contribute to the carefree mood of a bayou paradise.

J. Cugliotta Landscape/Nursery, Inc, Southampton, NJ
Contact: Joe Cugliotta (609) 859-9333
Pete’s Fountain
Mardi Gras colors – gold, purple, and emerald green -- dominate the display. Ornamental iron gates, sculpture made from saxophones, and piano key steps enhance this improvisational garden that employs “out of the box” ideas for the gardener.

Jacques Amand - the Bulb Specialists, Ancramdale, NY
Contact: Elaine and Ed Wiggers (800) 452-5414 or Jacques Amand (011-44-181-420-7110)
Bulb Jam
The lily “All That Jazz” is a new introduction at this year’s Show. Large masks with flowing streamers recreate the Mardi Gras atmosphere and complement a parade of colorful blooms.

Jamie Rothstein Distinctive Floral Designs Inc., Philadelphia, PA
Contact: Jamie Rothstein (215) 238-1220
Inside Outside
The timeless charm of a small Southern mansion in New Orleans’ Garden District is represented by an interior space moved outdoors. A garden party for a small group of dinner guests is framed by blooming branches and gorgeous amaryllis. The side terrace, painted black and white, leads to a piano-shaped patio. This stylish party blends classic elements with contemporary hip.

Kepich & Associates, Holicong, PA
Contact: Chris or Daniel Kepich (215) 794-5090
Accomplished Harmony
This outdoor setting features a small pond and patio surrounded with colorful azaleas, rhododendrons, and an array of perennials and bulbs.

Lamsback Floral Decorators, Philadelphia, PA
Contact:  Robert and Karen Lamsback (215) 925-0253
FEATURED PRESENTATION
Longtime exhibitors Lamsback Floral Decorators created the blooming spectacle that encompasses the arched entryway to the Show. Oversized piano keys that plunge into a waterfall setting are festooned with myriad bouquets of hanging flower designs.  Six modern art-inspired “Rhythm Rooms” are surrounded by1,600 blooming bromeliads, towering foxtail palms, and other tropical beauty.  Each room is designed with a specific shape and color combination. The color pairings, including red and black, blue and purple, and brown and bright pink sport exotic designs combinations of orchids, calla lilies, and many other specimen flowers.

Lorenz Landscape Contractors, Glenside, PA
Contact: Leo Lorenz (215) 885-8123
This is New Orleans old-world charm with a jazzy flavor. A music repair shop features instruments playing in ponds and streams surrounded by fantastic arrays of color from azaleas to perennials.

McGlade & Son Landscaping Co., Gladwyne, PA
Contact: John McGlade (610) 642-6299
A Little Night Music
A new plant, Diervilla sessilifolia “Cool Splash” PPAF, developed by the Landscape Plant Development Center in Minnesota, will debut at this year’s Show. It sits in a secluded courtyard garden transformed at dusk when the music seeps in. The garden’s syncopation and rhythm is evident in the ensemble of contrasting foliage. Cool silvers and robust burgundies resonate against the staccato of the architectural elements. Gleaming stainless-steel towers, richly textured hand-wrought iron and pallid ghost structures of musicians punctuate the composition. All these sultry forms combine to create fluid harmonies that reflect the mystery and magic that is New Orleans.

Meadowbrook Farm
Contact: John Story (215) 887-5900
Cool Jazz & Hot Rhythm
The rhythm of color is intoxicating in this series of concentric gardens filled with annuals, a statues, and the gentle sound of a fountain. A beautiful collection of sub-tropical and tropical plants include alocasia, citrus, flowering ginger, Australian tree fern, Southern magnolia, bananas, oleander, and palm trees.

The Men’s Garden Club of Philadelphia
Contact: John Young (610) 339-0954 or young161@verizon.net
Juke Joint in the Woods
Travel back to the hopping 1920s, when jazz musicians would retreat into the backwoods for a little fun and a lot of music at the “juke joint” – a name that came from the African term, jook, or “mischief.” The Men’s Garden Club recreates the bayou roadhouse atmosphere, where everyone could unwind, let loose, and dance…but watch out for that gator.

Michael Bruce Florist, Westmont, NJ
Contact: Michael Bruce (856) 854-6322, michaelbruceint@gmail.com
Walk and sway beneath a display of gorgeous flowers and a mysterious flow of music. The suspended garden and state-of-the-art sound system will have people moving and dancing to the display’s sights and sounds.

Netherlands American Business Association, Abington, PA
Contact: Thomas A. Snyder (215) 280-2969 or Kathy Laurie
The North American Business Association, will showcase a beautiful scene from Holland’s countryside. Tips on how to grow bulbs in containers, small space gardening, and new tools for water conservation will be provided.

North American Rock Garden Society - Delaware Valley Chapter, PA
Contact: Joan Schmidt (610) 363-7693 or Dick Van Duzer (215) 766-0808
Alpine House Jazz and Blues – It Rocks
This is one exhibit that really rocks. Society members have created an alpine house with benches featuring plunge beds of sand. A wide variety of bulbs, perennials and dwarf evergreens, troughs and tufa rock plantings will enhance the walk-through experience.

Pennsylvania Bonsai Society, Glenmoore, PA
Contact: Randall Naftal (610) 942-7917.
A Traditional OrientalViewingGarden
Members of the Pennsylvania Bonsai Society present trees from their personal collections in 15 traditional Japanese “moon gates,” that spotlight each tree’s foliage and silhouette. Some of the examples on display are more than 100 years old.

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
Contact: Sam Lemheney (215) 988-1621
Jazz it up!
FEATURED PRESENTATION
This series of displays will inspire the most winter-weary visitors as they enter the Show to the swinging sounds of Jazz. Like jazz, gardening is about individual expression -- expressing yourself through plants, flowers, color, texture, and scents. It’s about taking something rigid and predictable and giving it life, movement and feeling. The Show’s over-the-top designs will also provide  inspiration for taking your own garden to a new level.

PHS Village
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Philadelphia, PA
215-988-8800; www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org
For guidance, opportunities and inspiration on local gardening, check out the new PHS Village display, created by The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, producer of the Show. The display showcases PHS’ vast array of exciting year-round programs and activities for youth, volunteers, members and gardening enthusiasts.

Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources – Harrisburg, PA(717) 236-7644iConserve Pennsylvania
From the home patio to nearby park lands, there are conservation opportunities for all. Discover some of the ways to be a backyard or backcountry steward. Install a rain barrel. Plant native plants. Use sustainably harvested, certified lumber. Volunteer in the great outdoors. Explore Pennsylvania’s inspiring natural wonders. Let iConserve inspire you.

Philadelphia Society of Botanical Illustrators, Exton, PA
Contact: Joan Frain (610) 363-5534
The Rebirth of a Garden
When Hurricane Katrina blew into New Orleans, it also destroyed the city’s Botanical Gardens. The Philadelphia Society of Botanical Illustrators has been working since that time to raise funds to help rebuild the garden’s orchid collection. This exhibit will depict orchids from the new collection in addition to many other colorful plants of the Crescent City area. A percentage of proceeds from the sale of any artwork will go toward replenishing the orchid display of the New Orleans Botanical Garden.

Philadelphia Cactus & Succulent Society, New Hope, PA
Contact: Paul Wesolowski (267) 614-2989
Noteworthy Succulents
One hundred different species of cacti and succulents spring from and around a range of musical instruments and introduce guests to the diverse world of desert plants. The unique features of these remarkable plants are revealed up close.

Philadelphia Water Department, Philadelphia, PA
Contact: Arthur Holst (215) 685-6143
Jazz Up Your Roof (and protect our water resources)
The green roof illustrates that a functional feature can be beautiful as well.
Guests mingle among plantings designed to capture and filter storm water runoff from the building’s roof and keep a controlled climate in the room below. The use of a rain barrel provides a source of water for seasonal flowers and other potted plants. This green roof will reduce the urban heat island effect, reduce storm water runoff, filter pollutants and carbon dioxide out of the air, and filter pollutants and heavy metals out of rainwater.

PNC Bank Park
Sponsor

The Ponds & Gardens of Limekiln, Glenside, PA
Contact: Hermann Twelkmeyer (215) 884-5928
Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler! (Let the Good Times Roll)
A musical fountain provides a pleasant note to this great plantation of the South.  The formal garden is filled with brilliant displays of flowers and plants.

Robertson's Flowers, Philadelphia, PA
Contact: Lisa Roth (215) 242-6000
Tickling the Ivory
Like the flow of black and white keys on a piano, flowers, in hues of white and black, will dress tables mimicking a piano in a jazz club setting under a tented structure. The exhibit will be surrounded by a white rock garden featuring different, darkened ferns and succulents.

Romano’s Landscaping, Pitman, NJ
Contact: Peter Romano (609) 471-1067
Contentment
A peaceful stream runs through the woods, into a cedar swamp, and past a cabin with an inviting porch in this exhibit that expresses a state of the heart. Native and hybrid plants enhance this tranquil journey home.

Rosade Bonsai Studio, New Hope, PA
Contact: Chase Rosade (215) 862-5925
Bonsai Meets Jazz
The harmony of trees and the robust joy of jazz blend in the expressive art of bonsai.
The Rosade Studio continues its long tradition of showing how to shape and work trees into lovely, balanced forms. Daily demonstrations answer guests’ questions about the delicate techniques involved.

Schaffer Designs, Philadelphia, PA
Bill Schaffer (267) 577-8555
The Color of Emotion
Take a stroll down Rue Bourbon, circa 1925, to a nightclub inhabited by topiary-framed figures from the heart and soul of NOLA. A tableau of flowers and color capture the late-night mood of a trio in mid-performance, the world-weary bartender, after-hours workers, and young lovers – the emotional landscape of the city of jazz.

W. B. Saul High School of Agricultural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA
Contact: Barbara Brown (215) 487-4467
Educational Partner: Philadelphia International Airport
Under the Tarmac
W.B. Saul High school brings you the native reptilian and softly muted aquatic plants that make a freshwater estuary. Currents flow and recede gently beneath a crescent walk.

Stoney Bank Nurseries, Glen Mills, PA
Contact: Jack or Joe Blandy (610) 459-5100
Reflections
A 35-foot Edith Bogue Magnolia provides a spectacular centerpiece to this water filled display.  A walkway made of water, reflects the plantings along the path. A fountain spouts from inside a baby grand piano, with its strings and fretwork, and tropical plants reminiscent of the New Orleans temperate zone are mixed with more familiar ones native to this region.

Styer’s, Concordville, PA
Contact: Bill Simmeral (610) 459-2400
TBD

Subaru of America
Sponsor

Temple University Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture, Ambler, PA
Contact: Pauline Hurley-Kurtz (267) 468-8173; phurleyk@temple.edu
The Big Four Mississippi Meander
Divert from the master stream crowd and meander down a path where at every fourth beat, the inherent negotiation in jazz, New Orleans and the Mississippi River landscape is emphasized. See former traces of the river as bright flowering bands of reds, blues and yellows, rising and falling with varied forms and textures of native and introduced vegetation. Sustaining the landscape, of which jazz is a part, means becoming attuned to the nature of the river.

ThinkGreen, Glenside, PA
Contact: Thomas Johnston (215) 887-2595
The Green Project
Reclaimed architectural elements – boulders, stone walls and slabs –are integrated with plantings that mimic the Louisiana forest canopy, understory, shrubs and flowering herbaceous layers. The value of a well-thought out plan on sustainable ecological principles, offers opportunities to re-use reclaimed materials, and conveys the importance of old world craftsmanship.

Timothy Martin Garden Gallery, Stockton, NJ
Contact: Janis Burenga (609)-397-4880, ext. 203
Timothy Martin: Music on Canvas
Timothy Martin, a Delaware Valley painter and sculptor who first gained widespread recognition when he was selected by Tiffany & Co. to display artwork in its Manhattan flagship on Fifth Avenue, will showcase oil paintings that embody the Show theme, Jazz It Up! Martin will present his musical images of flora and fauna morphed into musical instruments and themes. Many of the original paintings on display will be among Martin’s newest work, ranging from a harp fashioned from honeysuckle to a pear tree piano. Visitors may be able to catch a glimpse of Martin at the Show painting a baby grand piano commissioned by Steinway and titled,  “Springtime Piano.”

Tourism Ireland
Staged by Celtic Gardens
Contact: tourismireland.com
OFFICIAL SPONSOR
O Beauty, Ever Ancient, Ever New
Inspired by a Franciscan chapel and named after the writings of St. Augustine, this exhibit honors new life and hope for a new springtime after the flood. From a pond emerges ancient stonework that meanders through a meadow to a modern French belvedere covered with a state-of-the-art green roof/garden roof. A sea of spring flowers abound, such as forsythia, fothergilla, coreopsis, delphinium, geraniums, narcissus, sagina and thymus.

U.S. EPA Region III, Philadelphia, PA
Contact: Todd Lutte (215) 814-2099
Urban Scenes, Natural Rhythms
This urban garden is inspired by the rhythms found in nature and jazz. An ensemble made of natural materials features a horn section with containerized pitcher plants exploding in harmony with native ferns and no-mow sod. The use of native azaleas creates a melody for the eyes as the viewer is soothed by the blush of colors and structure of these stalwart landscape elements. The rhythm section is represented by conifers of various sizes, colors and textures exemplifying the harmonies of the garden.  A natural percussion keeps time with the rest of the garden through the use of recycled glass, re-use of antique wrought iron fencing, a composter and rain barrel, all intertwined with the melodic sounds of cascading fountains.

Waldor Orchids, Linwood, NJ
Contact: Walter M. Off (609) 927-4126
Down on the Bayou
As the morning mist rises over the Louisiana bayou, a young dad hopes to hook a catfish from the front porch of the old fishing shanty. He is surrounded by trees laden with Spanish moss, colorful orchids and bromeliads. Beware of the alligator lurking nearby in the swamp.

Waterloo Landscaping Inc., Exton, PA
Contact: Susan LeBoutillier (484) 879-2388
Blues on the Bayou
The beautiful colors, splendid calm, and laid back charm of an outdoor landscape are inspired by the lazy evenings of Southern comfort and style.  Lush plantings, colorful meadows, and graceful waterways create a sumptuous, flowing setting for entertaining on water’s edge -- a meeting of traditions, people, and places. The exhibit captures the ethereal mix of culture and environment.  The intention is to promote unusual plants and new additions to the region while presenting an outdoor living model. 

The Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades, Media, PA
Contact: Don Jackson (610) 566-1776
Springtime in the Wetlands
Guests learn how to choose the right binoculars or spotting scope, and how to recognize a great blue heron habitat or the migrating birds of spring in this beautiful wetlands display of flora and fauna.
Traverse the boardwalk through the native trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants, past the beaver lodge and wetland pool, to the camouflaged observation blind, where adults and children can peer out on a marsh.