{"id":218728,"date":"2026-06-14T04:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T04:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218728\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T04:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T04:40:07","slug":"electric-city-flower-show-and-museum-events-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218728\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric City Flower Show and museum events planned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Art and horticulture will sprout in Nay Aug Park as Everhart in Bloom Week leads up to the Electric City Flower Show on Saturday, June 20.<\/p>\n

The centerpiece of the week is the free fifth annual Electric City Flower Show from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This year the show is moving from another part of the park to the grounds of the Everhart Museum within Nay Aug Park.<\/p>\n

Gardeners of all ages have until Wednesday to sign up for free to compete in 12 categories, a few less than last year. Submission in the photography categories is closed.<\/p>\n

A series of events and exhibitions come with the show.<\/p>\n

\u201cArt in Bloom\u201d will be on display in the Museum from Wednesday through Sunday. This exhibition will pair works from the Museum\u2019s collection with original floral interpretations.<\/p>\n

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Striking a pose at a previous Everhart in Bloom event.
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A 2024 Electric City Flower Show ribbon winner. Cathene Nardozzi captured first place in the hydrangea category. (Laurel Garden Club)\n<\/p>\n

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A previous Electric City Flower Show winner. (Electric City Flower Show)\n<\/p>\n

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Striking a pose at a previous Everhart in Bloom event.
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On Thursday, June 18, from 6 to 9 p.m., the adult arts and crafts series Crafty Hour returns with Craft & Bloom: An Evening Garden Experience. The cost is $20 for Everhart members and $25 for nonmembers.<\/p>\n

Guests will visit hands-on creative stations inspired by regional painter and silkscreen artist Jon Carsman.\u00a0The centerpiece is \u201cWishes in Bloom.\u201d Crafters will fold an origami lotus, write a personal wish, and set it afloat on the Everhart pond.\u00a0The evening\u2019s music will be by the DJ duo Cowgirl Pills.<\/p>\n

On Friday, June 19, the Everhart brings back the Flower Power Happy Hour on the Museum\u2019s front lawn from 5 to 8 p.m. This event will feature drinks by Groove Brewing, food by Harvest Seasonal Grill, and live music by Marko Marcinko\u2019s Latin Jazz Quintet. Admission is $15 with pre-registration, $20 at the door, and includes one free drink ticket, after which there will be a cash bar. It is a 21-plus event.<\/p>\n

Winners of Scranton Tomorrow\u2019s Downtown Scranton Business Class Floral Competition will be announced at the happy hour and on display at the flower show. Entries had to include a red, white and blue element.<\/p>\n

For the main event, Saturday\u2019s flower show, the grounds open at 10 a.m., but the floral exhibits open to the public at noon. Categories include single stems of roses and other flowers, a category for America 250 arrangements, table centerpieces, mason jar posies and other displays. Children can enter their own competition for some categories. A few design-focused categories allow the use of store-bought flowers.<\/p>\n

In addition to the floral displays, dozens of vendors with products fitting for a flower show, plus food, will set up on the lawn and farther into the park.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey will be selling all of their handmade goods,\u201d said Camille Dantone, a flower show volunteer and the museum\u2019s director of education. \u201cThey are not AI influenced. They are handmade by local artisans themselves,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The Flower Show registration website is electriccityflowershow.webador.com<\/a>. Registration for Everhart in Bloom events is available at everhart-museum.org\/pages\/everhart-in-bloom-week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The museum address is 1901 Mulberry St., within the park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Art and horticulture will sprout in Nay Aug Park as Everhart in Bloom Week leads up to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1681,3550,201,182,28,178,180,179,289],"class_list":["post-218728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-entertainment","tag-home-and-garden","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218728","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=218728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}