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22nd Annual Festival of Flowers
May 25, 2019 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Festival of Flowers is an annual event that brings together gardeners from throughout South Texas.
Co-Hosted by San Antonio Water System, the show focuses on water-saving gardening, landscaping, and horticulture practices.
INDOOR GARDEN MALL
Shop from a huge variety of exhibiting vendors selling landscape and gardening supplies, garden and garden-themed décor, artisan food products and Plants! Plants! Plants!
GARDENING SEMINARS (1 CEU per seminar. Code: 001)
11am – Noon: Why Good Soil Matters with Andy Chidester
Noon – 1pm: Vegetable Gardening in the Four Seasons with David Rodriguez
1 – 2pm: Essential Herbs & Spices for a SA Kitchen Garden with Mary Dunford
2 – 3pm: When Good Gardens Go Bad with Judy Barrett
ORGANIC ROUNDTABLE
Bob Webster hosts a panel of Texas organic and natural gardening experts. Informative and interactive. Bring your questions for the professionals to answer.
CITY-WIDE PLANT EXCHANGE
This year will be the 21st annual City-Wide Plant Exchange at the Festival of Flowers. It’s the largest plant exchange in Texas when more than 1,000 plants are traded every year between 9am and 3pm. After 3:00, left-over plants are sold at rock-bottom prices.
Click here for more information, along with guidelines and a few rules.
2018 DAYLILY SHOW
May is the peak time for Daylily blooms and members of the San Antonio Daylily Society will present their 4th Festival of Flowers show. Beautiful cut blooms will be on display. People visiting the show vote for their favorites. Society members will be selling daylilies to grow and will be available to answer your questions.
FLORAL DESIGN CHALLENGE
10 creative flower arrangers—all members of San Antonio Garden Center.
Their challenge: create a design using only the flowers they first see when they arrive at the Festival of Flowers that morning—flowers donated by San Antonio Flower Co. You can vote for your favorite arrangement throughout the day, and one designer will be the victor. But during the day, they will be available to talk to you about the art of floral design, and how you can sign up for Garden Center’s Floral Design classes this fall and Spring, 2019.
Click here for more information about the Floral Design Challenge
HERB KITCHEN
Expert herb growers and chefs join forces to create herb-cooking demonstrations for sampling throughout the day. This talented group are members of the San Antonio Herb Market Association, who annually sponsor the San Antonio Herb Market in October and Basil Fest each May.
Click here for more information about the San Antonio Herb Market Association.
PLANTS THAT THRIVE IN SAN ANTONIO
You must see them to believe that there are so many choices for gardening success in the San Antonio area.
Each year, veteran Bexar County Master Gardener Sir Oliver Smith assembles dozens of native and adapted plant specimens that home gardeners can count on to produce dazzling, water-saving and heat-tolerant landscape results. We all know him as “Smitty,” and he and his team of knowledgeable plant volunteers will be available all day to answer your question
RADIO BROADCASTS
Meet your favorite hosts of San Antonio’s radio gardening show, including
Bob Webster, KTSA 6-9am
David Rodriguez and Bill Rhode, WOAI 7-10am
Drs. Calvin Finch and Jerry Parsons along with Milton Glueck, KLUP 2-4pm
Admission: Adults, $7; Children Under 10 Free
Free Parking
For more information, visit http://safestivalofflowers.com/about/ and check back frequently for updates.
Color codes for the calendar are as follows:
- Orange: These are events for BCMG members only.
- Blue: These are public events for which BCMG members can also receive CEU credit.
- Green: These are events that are open to the general public.