Pictures
Photos of Flora Show 2008 - by donna
AThe beautiful poster for the show was
done by John Haines
http://www.coronadohaines.com/id42.html
I had attended Flora in August 2006 when
I was just here as a visitor. That show
was at Atlapa, one of our convention
centers. This year they moved it to the
Anthropological Museum. It went from
August 20th to 23rd. After moving a lot
of the artifacts out of the way, they
installed hundreds of plants on three
floors as well as outside. It was quite
amazing to see all the plants in one
place that grow here.
EXPOFLORA II is a national exposition of
horticulture and floral designs along
with educational displays on the twelve
National Parks of Panamá. Here are some
bullet points about the EXPOFLORA II.
This was a judged show.
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Organizer: La Federación de Clubes
de Jardinería de Panamá
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Theme: "Nuestros Parques, Nuestra
Riqueza"
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Location: Museo Reina Torrres de
Araúz (MARTA) in Curundu on the
corner across from gas station and
"On the Run" convenience store
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Date:: Thursday, August 21 and
Friday, August 22 9:00 a.m. to 6:00
p.m. Saturday, August 23 from 10:00
a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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General Public Admission: $2.00 .
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EXPOFLORA II SUPPLEMENT to LA PRENSA
wll be published Sunday, August 18
I really enjoyed going around the
different areas – on the first and
second levels were tropicals and other
displays and on the third level was
floral displays. While most of them were
pretty good, I was saddened to see so
many of the displays lacking in upkeep,
that is wilted flowers not changed to
fresh ones. With paying customers coming
in each day, it really is important to
keep the arrangements fresh looking for
the whole time there. More importantly
on the displays them selves, I was
shocked to see that the oasis was not
covered up. You will see what I mean in
one of the close up shots.
Outside were wonderful displays of
plants from local growers and
wholesalers…what caught my eye were the
gorgeous hibiscus. The colours took my
breath away.
Then it was back inside and I took a few
photos of the museum before leaving… oh,
in case you are wondering what a
torrential rainy season downpour can
look like here in Panama – I left these
pictures on so you can see…we are inside
the vehicle driving through this – thank
goodness for SUV’s…and thankfully they
don’t last long.
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