Phipps’ annual fall flower takes ‘Japanese Inspirations’
Candy Williams | for the Tribune-Review
The East Room pays tribute to one of Japan’s most colorful celebrations, the Star Festival, featuring paper lanterns and disbud, spray and garden mums in shades of pink, purple and orange.
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Jordyn Melino, associate director of exhibits at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, adds miniature plants and figures to a community garden, part of the garden railroad display, “Farms, Food and Family,” which opens with the fall flower show.
Courtesy of Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
Phipps staff put the final touches on the head of a 117-foot-long Japanese dragon that will be featured in the Serpentine Room during the fall flower show, “Japanese Inspirations.”
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Simon Talisa, 21 months, and his mom, Rebecca Talisa of Pittsburgh show a paper Cuban snail that Simon created in the Children’s Discovery Garden at Phipps. In the bamboo planter is Asian long-grain rice grass that grows in water containers.
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Plantings of ‘Hot Biscuits’ amaranth add a unique look to the window boxes in Phipps’ Victoria Room as part of the fall flower show, “Japanese Inspirations.”
Courtesy of Paul g. Wiegman
Chrysanthemums — including cascade, disbud, pot and spray varieties in shades of orange, yellow and bronze shown in the Broderie Room — are the main attraction in the Fall Flower Show at Phipps Conservatory.
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From left: Jennifer Ehrenberger, horticulture technology instructor at Bidwell Training Center; Bidwell student Michael Morton; Laura Schoch, designer of the fall flower show; Bidwell student Torie Day and Phipps volunteer Barry Tessier work on preparations for the display. The students help out at Phipps as part of Bidwell’s hands-on horticulture technology program training
