The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society has recently revealed the theme of the 2025 PHS Philadelphia Flower Show: Gardens of Tomorrow. The 196th PHS Philadelphia Flower Show will be held from March 1-9, 2025 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. This event is without a doubt one of the most popular and renowned in the flower industry and is a must if you're going to be there in March.
What to Expect From the Philadelphia Flower Show in 2025
How can gardening shape a better future? The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s (PHS) 2025 PHS Philadelphia Flower Show will explore this and more with its theme, 'Gardens of Tomorrow'. Globally renowned for its stunning floral displays, garden landscapes, and premier plant and botanical art competitions, this year’s exhibits invite you to explore the future through the eyes of visionary designers, expert gardeners, and passionate green enthusiasts as they merge nature’s brilliance with human ingenuity. Guests will experience imaginative designs, innovative ideas, and boundless inspiration on how to cultivate the possibilities of tomorrow through gardening.
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Furthermore, this annual event is based on a community that blooms each spring, where hundreds of people from the region, East Coast, and worldwide come together for a week-long magnification of gardening's transformative power. In this fragmented world of constantly changing landscapes, everyone who participates - from exhibitors and competitors to artisans and guests - brings their passion and enthusiasm to the Pennsylvania Convention Center to help co-create this one-of-a-kind event that proudly displays this fun, flowery, and colorful collective.
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Seth Pearsoll, Vice president and Creative Director of PHS shares:
"In a world where loneliness has become an epidemic, the PHS Philadelphia Flower Show brings people together to connect over their shared love of gardening and floral beauty. It is a place where magic happens, and where people from all walks of life come together as one. This growing community represents the essence of the event."
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'Gardens of Tomorrow' invites visitors to envision a future where our actions today nurture a healthier planet. Through the simple act of gardening and planting trees, we plant seeds of hope for a greener future.
Seth says:
"The 2025 PHS Philadelphia Flower Show highlights the transformative power of plants and inspires us to create a beautiful, more resilient future together."
Whether you enjoy gardening for its many health and wellness benefits, you plant for your community and the connections it fosters, or you garden with sustainability in mind to strengthen our planet’s ecosystem – every act of gardening is an act of hope that can improve our outcomes.
From Garden Dreams to Floral Scenes
Step into an impressive flower-filled entrance garden featuring massive, flowering trees, 3 water features with cascading floral displays, provocative floral sculptures, and a custom-lit archway. This floral wonderland unites the most beautiful plants and flowers into one unforgettable experience.
Large-scale, statement-making floral creations and gardens showcasing beauty and sustainability, designed by the most talented florists and garden artists from the U.S., and around the world, curated by experts and judged by globally renowned horticultural gurus will also be seen.
Hear from experts at the forefront of the world of gardening at the FREE 'Know to Grow' sessions, included with admission. Learn from gardening experts on a variety of topics, from beginner basics to advanced techniques. Get inspired and start cultivating your garden of tomorrow, today.
Lastly, the world’s largest houseplant and indoor plant competition with entries from a community of hundreds of expert and amateur horticulturists. Using passion and plant science, these participants compete to see whose plant is blue ribbon worthy, with entries judged by experts from around the country and the world. This competition is open to everyone and allows visitors to learn more about plants and contribute to creating a better world through gardening.
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Special Surprises Revealed for This Year's Edition
As part of the 2025 PHS Philadelphia Flower Show announcement, PHS is disclosing the first in a series of thematic art pieces inspired by 'Gardens of Tomorrow'. Digitally hybridized flowers, using historic photos and illustrations from the PHS McLean Library, hint at a future of possibilities echoed by the prismatic effect and varied fonts. With more versions to come in the new year, this first release teases the idea of what could sprout tomorrow with what we tend to today.
Matt Rader said:
"PHS has long championed gardening to positively transform ourselves, our society, and our health and well-being. This belief drives not only the Flower Show but our year-round work planting trees, supporting community gardens, remediating vacant land, and creating dynamic, free, public gardens. As we look towards the future, the 2025 PHS Philadelphia Flower Show envisions a world where gardening is both a joyful hobby and a celebrated force for creating a healthier planet, society, and people.”
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If you’ve ever stopped and smelled the roses, or admired any other flower for that matter, the team behind PHS invites you to join this growing community as they usher into this year's spring season, from March 1-9 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Get your tickets now and mark your calendars! To purchase tickets please visit PHS's website.
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