An oversize story book provides a dramatic entrance to the show. Blooms used at the entrance include flowering almond shrub myrtle topiary, pink hyacinth, pink roses, stargazer lilies, and purple vanda orchids.
The Fairy Godmother’s Cottage garden features spring flora including primrose, ginestra, weeping crabapple tree, and Girard’s Fuchsia azalea.
Guests are invited to take photos while sitting in the “ice throne.” Surrounding the perch are blue cineraria, white azalea, blue hydrangea, calathea holiday, white anthuriums, and white phalaenopsis orchids.
Swords and a floral shield announce the Knight’s Quarters spring garden. Used in the display are Japanese maple, weeping Japanese maple, cercis covey twist, cytisus woodbine orange, purple calla lily, purple tulips, orange ornithogalum, and forsythia.
The colorful Traveler’s wagon is filled with variegated Ivy, azaleas, Asiatic lilies, gerbera daisies, kolanchoes, tulips, and primrose as well as cut lisianthus, roses, delphinium, alstroemeria, and gloriosa lilies.
The Meadows, with a centerpiece of a hollowed-out-tree-turned-rabbit-home—is surrounded by blue fountain grass, hyacinth, salvia, gerber daises, liriope, and zinnia.
The Flower Show took over two corner window displays.
Guests have a choice of thrones—one for an evil snow queen, the other for a spring princess—in an area for photos. The event uses the hashtag #macysflowershow.
Spring looks mix with florals in the Fairytale Fashion Gardens.
A floral dragon—with a scaly tail rendered in the succulent Echeveria Perle Von Nürnberg—is captive in the Dungeon display of cordyline spike, staghorn fern, tiger bromeliads, and ficus decora burgundy.
The first floor of Macy’s Union Square in San Francisco features more than 130 varieties of flowers, trees, and plants. Macy’s Visual team, in partnership with Armstrong Gardens, created the gardens and landscapes, while students at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising created window displays.
A pink-hued photo opp in San Francisco was dubbed “Princess Spring’s great throne” and was part of the Spring Castle garden. The area included rhododendrons, schefflera, bellflower, and cypress.
A series of mannequins represented the seasons—one each spring, summer, fall, and winter—with a figure representing time in the middle. That mannequin was decorated with materials including plastic garbage bags, newspaper, recycled metal objects, paper, wire, glitter, and gears.
An enchanted forest took over the cosmetics department. The display included weeping spruce, golden hinoki false cypress, hosta, heuchera, and assorted ferns. At the foot is the dragon, transitioning to the winter snow queen garden.
Following the show, Macy’s will offer a selection of plants and flowers, with proceeds benefiting the Delancey Street Foundation. The sale takes place on April 9 at Pier 32 on the Embarcadero.
