{"id":124998,"date":"2026-02-27T10:59:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124998\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:59:06","slug":"philly-flower-show-to-get-it-roots-down-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124998\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly Flower Show to get it roots down this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Reed of Jennifer Designs in Mullica Hill, New Jersey, plays with flowers rooted in literature with a full-sized mock-up of London\u2019s old Globe Theatre, where many of William Shakespeare\u2019s plays premiered. Shakespeare\u2019s writing is covered with flowers. The rose, alone, <a href=\"https:\/\/americanshakespearecenter.com\/2024\/04\/shakespeare-in-full-bloom\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is mentioned over 100 times<\/a> in his poems and plays.<\/p>\n<p>Reed\u2019s display is a play. At random times during the flower show, a curtain will drop over the stage as the floral figures and props are rearranged through three narrative scenes. They loosely tell the story of \u201cRomeo and Juliet\u201d played out by a sunflower and a rose, lovers from opposite sides of a flower field.<\/p>\n<p>The story was written by Reed\u2019s daughter, Chloe Oechsle, 17. The full text is <a href=\"https:\/\/jenniferdesignsevents.com\/philadelphia-flower-show#28581167-57a9-45e5-b11e-648842936cb4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">available for download<\/a> on the Jennifer Designs website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very nerve-racking,\u201d Oechsle said. \u201cBut I\u2019m glad for the opportunity to help my mom out like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>True to Shakespeare, Oechsle\u2019s tale of star-crossed lovers, or in this case, flowers, is a tragedy, which Reed had concerns about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was in bad taste to have a sunflower and a rose carcass on the ground,\u201d she said. \u201cThere was a long discussion on how to do that. So now we\u2019re kind of alluding to it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Reed of Jennifer Designs in Mullica Hill, New Jersey, plays with flowers rooted in literature with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,4001,43303,71,70],"class_list":["post-124998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-250","tag-philadelphia-flower-show","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}