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Grex Gardening Item 40: Flower & Garden Shows
Entered by krj on Mon Feb 22 22:15:43 UTC 1999:

In case anyone missed the story in the Ann Arbor News:
 
After last year's Ann Arbor Flower Show, the sponsoring organization --
UM's Matthai Botanical Gardens -- announced that it would not be putting
on the show any more.
 
Leslie & I thought that was the end of it.  However, the show has been 
resurrected with corporate sponsorship, and this year's edition will 
take place the first weekend in April, if I remember correctly.

4 responses total.

#1 of 4 by arabella on Sat Feb 27 07:13:47 1999:

Yay!  I can hardly wait!

#2 of 4 by tsty on Thu Apr 8 18:18:42 1999:

i almost went this year ...but $10 .../sheesh!

#3 of 4 by arabella on Sun Apr 11 04:54:24 1999:

Well, we went, and it was a big disappointment.

#4 of 4 by krj on Mon Apr 12 18:27:26 1999:

The garden exhibits seemed to be about half the size of last year's, 
and a little less interesting.  The plant competitions were completely
scrapped.  Many of the most interesting vendors from last year 
were gone.  We were speculating that many vendors and exhibitors chose 
to go to the DTE Detroit Bloomfest, whose inaugural show was the weekend 
after the Ann Arbor show.  (And we got too busy to go to Cobo Hall
for that show, so we can't bring you a report.)  
 
The Saturday night crowd at the Ann Arbor show seemed much lighter 
than the crowds I remember from the previous two years.  I'll be 
curious to see if the Ann Arbor show is attempted again in 2000.

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