Witness for the summer with the show of the flowers
Every June, Greenwood County hosts the Celebrate the beginning of summer and enjoy traditional Southern Hospitality at the 2007 South Carolina Festival of Flowers in beautiful Greenwood, South Carolina. This Festival marks its Fortieth Anniversary and will be blooming as never before. The South Carolina Festival of Flowers has become — A Perennial Favorite. These six days of festivities are named one of the Southeast Tourism’s “Top 20″ events and include private tours, arts and crafts, sports, the Flotilla at Lake Greenwood, flower and horticulture shows, and music for all ages.
Festival of Flowers is a conceptual event designed to immerse visitors in a visual and sensory experience they will never forget. There are over 250,000 annuals and 30,000 bulbs planted throughout the many themed spaces of Hunter Valley Gardens, including the magical Children’s Storybook Garden, the Rose Garden, Oriental Garden and the European Formal Garden. Six years after its creation, the beautifully established Hunter Valley Gardens will provide a dramatic landscape for the avid gardener, promising a festival sure to impress and engage the whole family. Every year, the Festival attracts thousands of residents, national visitors and overseas tourists to relish a spectacular array of events including.
The festival attracts thousands of people from all over the nation. Hundreds of exhibitors offer the best in horticulture and related products for home and garden, and the friendly atmosphere is a haven for novice and veteran gardeners. Working alone and in groups, they stroll through the farmers shed plotting and planning for the spring planting season. From growing a small herb garden to creating a large outdoor sanctuary, the Southern Plant and Flower Festival is the place to find all the ingredients for a successful gardening experience.
Eventually, Park Seed obtained 500 acres on the northern edge of Greenwood, and designed and built there a total business complex to house the company’s offices, research facilities, seed storage and processing areas, temperature-controlled areas for storing plants and bulbs, computer facilities, mail order department, and customer service facility, plus its catalog preparation area and a showroom and reception area for its rapidly growing wholesale division. As the festival has gained popularity, it has become a favorite stopping place for bus tours from all over the U.S. and Canada and has been covered in “Southern Living” magazine. The annual event receives prominent news and advertising coverage in major newspapers, radio and television stations as well as on the world-wide Web.
