Attleboro Arts Museum Flower Show
Theme: Animal Habitats – Spring Gardens Gone Wild
86 Park Street, Attleboro, MA 02703
DEDICATION – Tony’s Whistle Stop Café: The Flower Show’s 2020 café, named “Tony’s Whistle Stop,” is dedicated to Tony Viveiros, a dear friend and supporter of the Attleboro Arts Museum. Tony, a loyal Flower Show volunteer, passed away in December 2019. PHOTO MARK STOCKWELL
The Attleboro Arts Museum’s Flower Show, now celebrating its 24th year, features major garden installations, artistic floral arranging, gardening presentations and demonstrations, special events for all ages, live music, and a nature-themed exhibition of original artwork. Every inch of the Museum is called into action during the Flower Show – as the festivities meander their way through the building and segments of the exterior grounds.
Animal Habitiats With a focus on pets that share our homes to wild animals that inhabit exotic locations, the 2020 theme of Animal Habitats – Spring Gardens Gone Wild has excited exhibitors, organizers, loyal Flower Show fans and animal enthusiasts. “Planning for the annual Flower Show typically kicks off while the previous year’s show is underway,” comments Mim Brooks Fawcett, the Attleboro Arts Museum’s Executive Director and Chief
Curator. Fawcett adds, “In 2019 the Flower Show followed a Museum exhibition entitled Animal Magnetism. This show of selections from the Museum’s permanent collection featured a range of creatures and struck a chord with viewers. It’s popularity stayed with Flower Show committee members, sparked this year’s theme, and established that live animal attractions would be a daily component of the 2020 event.”
Wildly Working Nine exhibitors have been working for months on their garden installations by exploring design options, forcing bulbs and shaping shrubs that will serve as a habitat for a featured animal. These creative gardens will showcase imaginative spaces filled with intriguing textures, the sweet smells of a new season and spotlight a member of the animal kingdom. Exhibitors include: Briggs Nursery, North Attleborough, MA; Bristol County Agricultural High School, Dighton, MA; NEW! Ethical Earth Creations, Foxboro, MA; Flowers by the Station, Attleboro, MA; Helping Hands Florist, Plainville, MA; NEW! Jordan’s Jungle, Pawtucket, RI; Nolan’s Flowers and Gifts, North Attleborough, MA; Oracle Landscape & Lindsey Epstein Pottery, Tiverton, RI; Rosebud Florist, Inc., Pawtucket, RI.
NEAL DROBNIS – GLASS
The 2020 Flower Show will be held from Thursday, March 19th through Sunday, March 22nd, at the Attleboro Arts Museum, 86 Park Street in downtown Attleboro, MA. Flower Show hours are Thursday – Saturday: 9:30am – 4pm and Sunday: 12pm – 4pm. All attractions, and all other daytime Flower Show events, are free with admission. The fee to enter each day for adults/students/seniors/members is $3.00. Children 9 years and under are free.