Garden Exhibitors
Will Create "Zen-ful" Inspirations at the
2013 Newport Flower Show
Exhibitors Prepare
an Asian Awakening at the 18th Annual
Newport Flower
Show
Newport, RI (April 23, 2013) – With the theme Jade:
Eastern Obsessions, the 18th annual
Newport Flower Show will take visitors on an exotic tour of Far Eastern
traditions and beauty. From June 21 - 23, the expansive front lawn of Rosecliff
will once again be filled with breathtaking garden displays, offering
inspiration and insight for those looking to add color and charm to their own
gardens. Six regional landscape companies will transform the historic grounds
of Rosecliff into tranquil sanctuaries that reveal the Eastern cultures of India, Thailand,
Japan, Korea, Cambodia
and China.
Bartlett Tree Experts, Presenting Sponsor of the Newport Flower Show, will
provide a selection of Asian trees that will be displayed in planters around
the front lawn. Bartlett
will also host a special garden pavilion on the front lawn featuring a Chinese
moongate and topiary dragon leading guests toward the front door of Rosecliff
and the floral, horticulture and photography divisions of the Show. Aardvard
Antiques of Newport will provide monumental statuary for areas of the front
lawn as well.
Six landscape designers will create individual Eastern-themed gardens
throughout the front lawn, each including garden statuary reflecting their
country's theme loaned by Schneible Fine Arts of Shelbourne, VT.
Inspired Design of North Kingstown, RI will create an Indian-influenced
garden. Principal Karen Barbera was the winner of the Chairmen’s Award
for exceptional design and horticulture in a display garden as well as the
Garden Club of America Award of Distinction in Education at the 2012 Newport
Flower Show.
Crystal Brinson Horticulturist of
Fairhaven, MA, a partnership of Crystal Brinson and Kenneth
Jardin, will create a Cambodian garden, with an elephant statue to symbolize
the spirit of the Cambodian people, while trees and shrubs within the garden
signify the family unit. Crystal Brinson won an Environmental Vision
Award at the 2013 Boston Flower Show, the URI Master Gardener Association
Sustainable Garden Award at the 2012 Newport Flower Show, and the Mrs. Samuel
M.V. Hamilton Award at the 2010 Newport Flower Show.
Magma Design Group, Inc. of
Pawtucket, RI will create a garden that reflects the
Thai aesthetic of simplicity through the use of stone and planting. It
will include a water feature and other stone elements influenced by the
Japanese stone cutting technique known as wari modoshi. Neil and Samantha Best
founded Magma Design Group in 2005. Together, they have received the Boston
Society of Landscape Architects Award at the 2012 Boston Flower Show, the
Landscape Design Award from the New England Wildflower Society in 2011, and the
Exhibitor’s Choice Award at the 2010 Rhode Island Flower Show, among others.
Miskovksy Landscaping, Inc. of Falmouth,
MA, will create a
Japanese-inspired garden. Paul Miskovsky's most recent awards
include the People’s Choice Award at the New England Spring Flower Show and the
Allen C. Haskell Award for Horticultural Excellence at the 2010 Rhode Island
Spring Flower Show.
Verde Garden Designs of Newport, RI will create a tranquil garden taking
inspiration from classic Korean gardens while blending a contemporary style and
aesthetic. Verde Garden Designs is a landscape design studio and
garden shop created by Pam Rodgers.
YardWorks, Inc. of Warwick, RI
will bring the beauty and grace of Far Eastern traditions to life through the
serenity of a Chinese-inspired garden. In business since 1978, YardWorks
is a retail garden center and full-service florist, led by Kevin Fox.
The Newport Flower Show will be open to the public from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on
Friday, June 21, and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday, June 22
& 23. Advance sale and Preservation Society member admission tickets
are $18 per person. Tickets sold at the door will be $25 on Friday, $23
on Saturday or Sunday.
Also available by advance purchase through June 7 only is a special "Bring
a Friend" ticket for Sunday, June 23, providing 2 adult admissions for
$29.
One-day Show tickets for children between the ages of 13 and 17 are $6, and all
children 12 and under are admitted free.
Admission to the Opening Night Party is $145 for Preservation Society members
and $170 for non-members, if purchased before June 7. After that date,
cocktail party admission will be $160 for members and $190 for non-members.
The Luncheon and
Lecture series will headline internationally renowned floral artist Hitomi
Gilliam on Friday and landscape architect Harriet Henderson on Saturday.
Tickets for each Luncheon and Lecture are $80 per person. Lecture-only tickets
are available for $40.
Free lectures and demonstrations by noted plant experts, flower designers and
gardeners will also be presented throughout the weekend. For more
information and to purchase tickets for the Newport Flower Show, visit www.NewportFlowerShow.org,
or call (401) 847-1000.
Bartlett Tree Experts
returns as Presenting Sponsor of the Newport Flower Show, which benefits The
Preservation Society of Newport County. Additional sponsors include
National Trust Insurance Services, Northern Trust, Brooks Brothers, Coca-Cola
Bottling Company of Southern New England,
Atria Senior Living, United Airlines, BankNewport, Porsche of Warwick, Aardvark
Antiques, East Coast Wholesale Flowers, and Design New England magazine.
With Newport's
largest private ballroom, Rosecliff was constructed in 1902 as a party pavilion
for one of the leading society hostesses of the Gilded Age. This
snow-white terra-cotta mansion, modeled after the Grand Trianon at Versailles, was created for Theresa Fair Oelrichs, heir to
the Comstock silver lode in Nevada.
It hosted many of the most fabulous entertainments of the period,
including a fairy-tale dinner and a party featuring magician Harry Houdini.
All proceeds from the Newport Flower Show benefit the ongoing landscape
restoration efforts of The Preservation Society of Newport County, a private
non-profit organization accredited by the American Association of Museums and
dedicated to preserving and interpreting the area's historic architecture,
landscapes and decorative arts. Its 11 historic properties—seven of them
National Historic Landmarks—span more than 250 years of American architectural and
social development.