The Philadelphia Flower Show season was officially inaugurated this morning with cornbread, gumbo and piles of Mardi Gras beads at Warmdaddy's, the blues and jazz club on South Columbus Boulevard.
"Jazz It Up," the music and gardens of New Orleans, is the theme for this year's show, which runs from March 2 to 9 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, 11th and Arch Streets.
Jane G. Pepper, president of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, which puts on the show, urged the small gathering to add "a touch of New Orleans" to their gardens this year by incorporating new ideas from "Jazz it Up." She also encouraged everyone to travel to the city, as she did recently for a wedding.
"That way we in Philadelphia can really help the people in New Orleans," Pepper said, referring to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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