DelVal Students Prepare For Philadelphia Flower Show

DOYLESTOWN, PA —Students at Delaware Valley University are once again preparing for the Philadelphia Flower Show.

Students are designing and building an exhibit for the country’s largest and longest-running horticultural event. The 2020 show, “Riviera Holiday,” runs Feb. 29 through March 8 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.

This year's Flower Show exhibit by the university students is called “Gamba Dell'albero” and will explore the “nature of nature.”

According to the university:

The focus of the exhibit is botany. Students have been working on the display since early fall, starting with design concepts and bringing those ideas to life during the construction phase. The DelVal display includes a more than 20-foot living tree and a water feature. The students also constructed a tree with large roots that guests will be able to walk under.

Student volunteers created educational signs to place throughout the display to teach guests more about the plants in the exhibit, the university said.

Horticulture major Daijah Barrett created a Philadelphia Flower Show exhibit during her time as a student at W.B. Saul High School in Philadelphia. “I hope people learn more about how plants work, what they need, and about nature,” Barrett said.

Landscape Architecture Program Administrator Michael Fleischacker and Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Science Howard Eyre guide the students through the process of designing and constructing a display each year.

You can learn and see more here.

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