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This year marked the show's 14th anniversary, and celebrated nature at its finest. Dedicated to teaching visitors how to appreciate and protect the world we live in, the show was entitled, Glorious Green: The Natural Path. It was a true beauty.
But don't believe me. See for yourself. Click through this eye candy of a slideshow.
Newport Flower Show 2009
This plant was displayed like artwork, in a closed case grouped with other mixed media arrangements, at the annual Newport Mansions Flower Show held in Rhode Island on June 26-28, 2009.
Though the setting for the flower show was Rosecliff, a mansion modeled after the Grand Trianon at Versailles and featured in movies such as The Great Gatsby and True Lies, the flowers were the stars.
John Corbett has attended and photographed the show every year since it began in 1995. "It's fun going there because everyone is having fun. Everybody there loves plants," he says.
During the show, flowers are on display on the front lawn, inside the mansions, on the back porch and surrounding the fountain in the back yard.
In the mansion, each room is decorated in a different theme. A small market fills the backyard. A jazz combo plays right next to the water.
This filled urn, sitting in the front courtyard of Rosecliff, a 107-year-old terra cotta mansion, gave a stunning first impression of this year's flower show.
The urn is about four feet wide and filled to the brim.
This tabletop topiary only stands about 18 inches high. It is made entirely of fresh green plant material to celebrate the Green Animals Topiary Garden, one of the Preservation Society of Newport County's historic properties.
A monarch butterfly in one of the two butterfly houses on the front lawn of Rosecliff. The houses were filled with butterfly-friendly plants for several types of butterflies, including monarchs, swallowtails and painted ladys.
The planted flowers outside were natural, while the floral arrangements inside the Newport Mansions were experimental and artistic.
