Specialty Gardens

Each winter, Virginia's most creative designers create masterful landscape and floral displays to inspire the 20,000-strong audience. Live demonstrations and educational classes entertain adults, while magicians, puppets and clowns entertain the kids.

A European Flower Market offers the freshest and most exotic flowers available while vendors display and sell a wide range of horticultural-related items from plants, fountains, outdoor furniture, tools, birdhouses, lawn ornaments and gift items such as jewelry and hand-made soaps.

The 2011 Show features:

• Major landscape and floral displays interpreting the theme Specialty Gardens
• Educational seminars and continuous gardening, cooking and floral demonstrations
• Back by Popular Demand! Timed floral competitions - grab your gloves and your shears for a fun floral frenzy
• Increased number of Vendors exhibiting and selling garden-related merchandise
• Children's entertainment with magicians, puppets and clowns
• Fresh Flower Market
• Expanded juried art show by local and regional artists
• Wheelbarrow competitions
• Virginia Federation of Garden Clubs Show, Tidewater District

Show hours are 10 a.m. – 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. on Sunday.