Bloomin' Spring
There were
flowers, of course at the Mass Horticultural Society Flower Show — a/k/a/
“Rhapsody in Green” — at the Bayside Expo center last week. But not as many as
we’d expected.
Actually, the majority of the capacious Bayside show-space was
taken up by a craft fair where vendors large and small pitched everything from
decorative brass frogs to chain saws to home-equity loans. That part was a
bore, but the plants were nice.
Some were
displayed in natural settings; others in inventive arrangements. A survey of
the award-winning table-top arrangements made you wonder what these shows must
have been like before gay liberation.
Still
others were showcased in elaborate stand-alone garden plots, each of which had
a theme — some recognizable, some comparatively oblique. There was one set up
as a monastery herb garden and several simulations of soul-defiant suburban
back yards. One incorporated an electronic grand piano, programmed to tinkle
out gag-me hits of the 1980s. And then there were these two pictured displays.
We never got
an explanation.
