City In The Bloom
The City has its ways of celebrating the spring within its concrete high-rises and we had a chance to experience couple of them last week. These are some really refreshing and pleasing experiences you might have during this season so get ready to mark your calendars!
It begins with The Orchid Show hosted at New York Botanical Gardens. The orchids are some of the most beautiful flowers you might come across and so you can imagine the thrill when you get surrounded by thousands of them from the selected species. Unfortunately the show just ended couple of days ago but you can catch some glimpse of how it was like. And if you like those glimpse, stay tuned for yet another orchid event coming to the City at Rockefeller Center: The International Orchid Show starting April 12!
Spring in New York probably won’t be complete without Macy’s Annual Flower Show with over a million flowers on their shop floor. Although you might notice that flowers are all strategically kept near departments for women in a way that people passing by will see the items on sell first and the flowers later. So be warned that even if the show is free your female companion may end up spending some big bucks ;). However the most interesting thing I saw there was this big fish spitting out water in the tub. This fish is apparently hanging in the air without any water inlets but is spitting out water anyway continuously. You will find several people standing around that fish wondering how the hack they do this. We know the answer but if you too can figure out, do post it in the comments!
Finally, there is still no reason for not visiting NY Botanical Gardens. These guys have their own Spring Flower Show starting April 12 and that also makes it a perfect excuse to check out their awesome desert collection and thousands of Daffodils too :).
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I caught a pic of the Macy’s flowered fish - you can see it in the flickr metblogs page or here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/typetive/7921357/
It’s funny, it didn’t even occur to me that there was no water intake for the display until I saw your post. I remember seeing something like that at the county fair when I was a kid where they had a giant water spigot 15 feet in the air and spewing out water, but no pipes connecting it.
How did they do the fish? It’s been bothering me since March….