Lehigh Valley Flower and Garden Show<\/a>.<\/p>\nBundled outside in the winter elements, people stopping by the Agri-Plex at the Allentown Fairgrounds are looking to skip ahead to next season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do commercial snow removal so we stay busy in the winter, but I\u2019m glad Spring\u2019s here and I\u2019m ready for it,\u201d said Brian DeLong, the owner of Professional Landscaping Service.<\/p>\n
More than 70 vendors are taking part in the three-day event that opened its doors Friday morning. Many of them shared their challenges from this cold winter, like Kevin Klase caring for his greenhouses.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen they\u2019re calling for snow, we crank the heat higher because we have to keep the snow off the roofs or they\u2019ll collapse\u2026 We were going through $1300 of fuel every 21 days,\u201d said Klase, the owner of Tall Timber Nursery.<\/p>\n
Putting its business\u2019 history on display: the year \u20181929\u2019 sticks out on the family greenhouse of the Albanese Garden Center\u2019s set-up. It\u2019s a representation of its originating year.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy grandfather was big into vegetable plants and cut flowers\u2026 We could\u2019ve brought a new one, but we wanted to really touch the Lehigh Valley Flower Show because it has such a rich history,\u201d said Dante Albanese, a manager and fourth generation of Albanese Garden Center Landscaping and Aquatic Design.<\/p>\n
Crowds can buy flowers but also get advice, such as when to start planting with our area seeing an early touch of Spring.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just tell people, \u2018That\u2019s fine, just keep an eye on the temperatures.\u2019 If you put things out too early, sometimes you know they\u2019re not going to make it or you just want to cover them or bring them in on those really cold nights,\u201d said Jerry Tumolo, the operations manager at the Bucks County Nursery and Florist.<\/p>\n
And if plants aren\u2019t your thing, there are plenty of four-legged friends to have new experiences and make emotional connections with.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou get people that are struggling in all aspects of life that come into our booth and their worries melt away the moment that a goat sits in their lap,\u201d said Justin Steinmetz, the co-owner of Steinmetz Family Goat Farm.<\/p>\n
The Lehigh Valley Flower and Garden Show runs Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – It may not feel like Spring outside, but inside the Allentown Fairgrounds, it\u2019s in full…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,805,3705],"class_list":["post-137538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehighvalley","tag-sunrise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137538","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=137538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}