White Dress With Flower at Bottom Kids Macy
For over 60 years, Macy's Flower Show has welcomed spring with luscious flowers, robust trees and gorgeous plants taking center stage at the department store. The dazzling displays famously take up the store's countertops and have filled specially-built platforms, sculptures and auditoriums. Here are a few interesting tidbits you may not know about the lush celebration of springtime blooms:
1. The Macy's Flower Show is celebrated simultaneously in five downtown store locations for two weeks.
New York City, 2012
Floral fans can catch the beautiful exhibitions in Herald Square in New York City, Center City in Philadelphia, State Street in Chicago, Downtown Minneapolis and Union Square in San Francisco. The most famous shows are in New York City and Philadelphia.
2. The show debuted in Union Square, San Francisco.
The New York show began in 1953, and the other locations didn't join the fun until the 2000s. The change happened after "merger of Macy's with the parent company of several regional department stores that had their own Flower Shows," Orlando Veras of Macy's told CountryLiving.com. "For example, Marshall Field's (Chicago), Wanamaker's (Philadelphia) and Dayton's (Minneapolis) had ongoing or historical Flower Shows that we decided to bring back to those store locations under our Macy's Flower Show umbrella with common themes and elements."
3. Each year's show has a different theme.
This year's theme is "America the Beautiful." Last year's was "Art in Bloom," and 2014's was "The Secret Garden." All five locations were following the same theme by 2009.
4. The Flower Show wasn't always so elaborate.
Macy\'s flower show, san francisco, 1949
Macy's San Francisco was the first one to hold a flower presentation in 1946. The purpose of it was to promote a fragrance, and the exhibit consisted of orchids and potted plants.
5. Now, each flower show is a major undertaking.
For the 2015 Minneapolis show, for instance, construction began in January of that year, and the making of whole show required over 3,000 hours of labor. According to local news reports, it takes nine days to plant the entire exhibition and four days to undo it.
6. A lot of flowers make up each show.
About 24 truckloads of plants and flowers made up each production. For 2016's show, the replica of the Statue of Liberty's torch, as seen above, is made up of 9,000 blooms. In total, approximately one million flowers are displayed in each location.
7. The exhibition takes a whole year to plan.
The Macy's Parade & Entertainment Group, which also produces the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, holiday celebrations, and the breathtaking 4th of the July Fireworks, is responsible for the Flower Show. According to Mike Gansmoe, the executive producer of the Flower Show, each exhibition takes a year to plan and produce. In other words, as soon as one show is done, they start working on next year's. "Once we sit down and figure out the concept, we roll that out to our design teams, and they go to work right away, drawing different ideas of what the gardens could look like. Once the scenic elements are designed and approved, we move to our nurseries, and in New York, it's Ireland Gannon."
8. The show goes to great lengths to keep the flowers fresh throughout the event's two-week run.
The temperature is kept at a consistent 65 degrees, and some flowers are changed out halfway through the exhibition to keep the displays looking their best.
9. Thousands of people experience the beloved tradition every year.
Across the five locations, more than 500,000 people are expected to visit the Macy's show.
10. The show is completely free.
Not only is the exhibition free, but Macy's also offers several in-store events throughout the two weeks at no cost.
Marlisse is the Web Editor of WomansDay.com, and she hails from Bronx, NY. She's currently obsessed with newsblogging, Instagramming just about everything, and, of course, Netflix (with wine).
Source: https://www.countryliving.com/gardening/a38101/macys-flower-show/
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