Over the Easter weekend, the daffodils popped and have been blooming everywhere you look for the past couple of weeks now. (In case you didn’t get enough flowers yet this week.) The first spring growth always makes me so excited. Having the daffodils bloom for Easter seemed very fitting. With daffodils around just about every corner right now, it wasn’t hard to find a few places to photograph them in the neighborhood.
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Art in Bloom is an annual event at the Milwaukee Art Museum. The four-day festival includes stunning art-inspired floral installations throughout the museum, local vendor and artisan booths, a silent auction, a fashion show, kid-friendly activities, food, and more. Even though Jake and I have been art museum members ever since we moved to southeast WI, somehow I hadn’t made it to Art in Bloom before.
Art in Bloom is crazy, with over 10,000 people in attendance during the four days it runs. But it’s really a neat event. The floral installations are so unique, colorful, and creative. The event features so many different elements that it’s well worth coming into town for the day just to attend. You’ll easily be able to fill an entire afternoon at the museum.
(A side note: I attended Art in Bloom the same week I attended Orchids in Vogue. I’m sharing these two events on separate weeks, so I don’t overwhelm anyone with floral photos.)
I really love the range of interpretation for the floral installations. Some installations are very literal while others are much more freeform. There are about three dozen installations in all. Not surprisingly, it is so hard to pick a favorite. I narrowed down roughly a dozen to share here. But there isn’t one installation that isn’t worth seeing.
I attended Art in Bloom during the first few hours that it was open. The florists were allowed to put the finishing touches on their installations during the first couple of hours Art in Bloom was open to the public. As a result, a number of florists were still there working. It was neat to see them in action and get to hear a few of them talk about their work.
The florist designed a hat to match the dress you see on the left-hand side of the bottom image. How neat is that?
I love birds of paradise flowers!
I absolutely love the way the florist created a square shape with the floral components and included a yellow square of flowers within it.
Finally, the last floral installation I’m featuring is a water scene, complete with ships. The vase the florist chose is so perfect.
Art in Bloom is always held during the final week of March. By the time this post goes live, the 2017 event will be over. Visit the museum website for details about upcoming events, including the Lakefront Festival of Art. I’m so excited for LFOA!
[Disclaimer: The Milwaukee Art Museum did not sponsor me to write this post. I’m simply a resident of southeast WI who loves attending, photographing, and sharing varying events in the area.]
The Great Train Robbery Train Show at the Domes
China Lights at the Boerner Botanical Gardens
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Last week, I made a quick trip down to Illinois for the annual orchid show, Orchids in Vogue, at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Somehow I had never been to the botanic garden before? If I had, it was many many years ago. The grounds are impressive. Spanning 385 acres on and around nine islands, the Chicago Botanic Garden has 27 gardens and four natural areas with six miles of lake shoreline.
Not surprisingly, in late March, there isn’t much blooming…yet. It’s right at that point where plants are just starting to poke their way out of the ground. You know that in another couple of months, the entire place is going to look completely different. I’m hoping to make another trip down there to see it in its full glory in the summer. But for this trip, I mostly stuck to the orchids exhibit, which was entirely indoors.
The orchid show was fabulous. They packed so much into a few greenhouses, with so many different plant species and vibrant colors everywhere you looked.
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In my neighborhood, there seem to be very specific blooming periods for different flowers. One day you won’t see any daffodils and then the next day, there are dozens of daffodils everywhere you look. I know that this is true in many parts of the world, but I’ve never lived in a neighborhood where it occurred so consistently with so many types of flowers. Currently lilies are in bloom. Orange lilies are especially abundant, and it makes me so happy to see the bright petals while driving or walking along the local streets.
What flowers are blooming right now in your part of the world?