I managed to catch the Macy’s Flower Show while in New York.

It combines two of my favourite things, shopping and flowers.

Held simultaneously during spring at Macy’s flagship stores in five cities, this delightful annual event has been charming shoppers for over half a century now.

The show uses a wide variety of flowers, plants and trees to transform the store into a beautiful and colourful floral fantasyland.

It’s a perfect start to spring; every inch of the first floor enchantingly covered with flowers – colourful tendrils flowing from out of reach areas.

Display cases were infused with exotic flowers; there were live birds, stunning tropical plants, topiary gardens and shades and shades of flowers from all over the world.

There were chandeliers with butterflies, whimsical airplanes, a giant hot air balloon garden and displays with giant vases made to look like fireworks… little pink fireworks.

This year’s theme was “Spring is in the air” – and it so beautifully was!

Aisle displays

Pinks…

These poor birds! Poor things probably suffered some sort of eye damage from all the camera flash (flash is evil!)
And you probably can’t tell from my smile what a long day this day turned out to be.

The people… they were everywhere.
You really can’t go to New York and complain about the crowds, that’s  like going to Paris and complaining about the wide usage of the French language!

Everyone loved the birds, the flash photography eventually got out of hand and the birds had to be covered up.

Quelle relief! I wasn’t mad at all.

Frankly, I can’t imagine the time and manpower it took to put all this together.

The displays were truly stunning, I’d have spent the whole day there but alas, I had other awesome places to go.

All the flowery colours…

Outside window display.