The inaugural Maine Flower Show will be held at Thompson’s Point in Portland next March, organizers announced Tuesday.
Members of the Maine Landscape & Nursery Association announced in January that they were creating their own annual event, dubbed the Maine Flower Show. Association members had participated in the Portland Flower Show, but wanted to start their own show to “better dictate how we represent our industry to the public,” executive director Don Sproul said at the time. Members also worried that the Portland Flower Show, which was canceled this year, was not attracting as many visitors as it once had and was not tightly focused enough on garden and yard work.
The Maine Flower Show will be held next year from March 29 to April 2 at Thompson’s Point, near outer Congress Street on the Fore River. The show will feature 20 display gardens and 120 exhibitors, Sproul said. It will be held in a 25,000-square-foot historic brick building and a 13,000-square-foot heated tent.
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