2024 Exhibitors

Apiary Studio

Winner of the 2024 PHS Philadelphia Flower Show Cup, Best in Show, the Anne Vallery Award for its intent to take a strong stance on an environmental issue, Landscape. Apiary Studio is a landscape architecture, design/build, and experimental horticulture firm. They work to achieve thoughtful design solutions that maximize opportunities and mitigate challenges in an increasingly post-wilderness, post-humanist world. By way of citizen research, in-house trialling, and playful curiosity, they have come to specialize in unorthodox building materials and conventions, adaptive reuse of urban decay, and unusual hardy plants to create gardens and outdoor spaces that are dynamic, responsive, and break from the mold. Collaboration with socially and environmentally minded colleagues, clients, and constituents is the underpinning of their practice, from private to public sites, wherein it's their belief that we are all ultimately stakeholders in landscape.

Irwin Landscaping and Prairie Wind

Winner of the 2024 Philadelphia Flower Show The Philadelphia Trophy for best use of color, the Pennsylvania Landscape & Nursery Association Trophy for most effective use of plants, and the Kate and Robert Bartlett, Jr. Award for best use of trees, Landscape. Irwin Landscaping Inc. is a full-service design/build/install firm. From professional design through quality planting and construction, Irwin Landscaping Inc. provides a unique combination of services to meet all your landscape and hardscape needs.

Kelly D. Norris

Winner of the 2024 PHS Philadelphia Flower Show Governor's Trophy for most innovative design, the PHS Council Trophy for most accomplished display of forced plants, The American Horticultural Society Environmental Award for horticultural excellence, and the PHS Gardening for the Greater Good Award for best exemplifying PHS’s mission, Landscape. Kelly D. Norris is one of the leading horticulturists of his generation. In his practice he explores the intersections of people, plants and place through ecological, site-specific design and art. An award-winning author and plantsman, Kelly's work in gardens has been featured in The New York Times, Better Homes and Gardens, Martha Stewart Living, Fine Gardening, Garden Design and in numerous television, radio and digital media appearances. His most recent book "New Naturalism: Designing and Planting a Resilient, Ecologically Vibrant Home Garden" was named one of the Top 10 Books of 2021 by the American Horticultural Society.

Laurel-Brook Gardens

Laurel-Brook Gardens is a small design build landscape company that focuses on creating inviting residential outdoor spaces. Their reputation is built on attention to detail and design uniqueness. Laurel-Brook creates landscapes and maintains private gardens in PA, DE, and NJ. Whether it's traditional or modern, formal or informal and naturalized, large estate or small city courtyard -- all of their projects receive equal attention and effort to create outdoor spaces with multi-seasonal interest. During the design process, they aspire to create designs that marry the landscape with the architecture, the interior design, and the client's personal style to create a seamless cohesion and flow between interior and exterior spaces. Their collaborative approach keeps the client involved in every step of the design and installation process to ensure that the end result exceeds expectations. Their end goal at Laurel-Brook is to create a landscape that you are excited to come home to.

Mark Cook Landscape & Contracting LLC

Winner of the 2024 PHS Philadelphia Flower Show, Silver Trophy Landscape Exhibit, the PHS Gold Medal Award for the best use of PHS Gold Medal Plants, and the Special Achievement Award of the Garden Club Federation of Pennsylvania – Conservation, Landscape. Mark and Emily Cook have been the owners of Mark Cook Landscape & Contracting for 23 years. Known for their innovative designs involving a varied palette in horticulture combined with artistic architecture. Mark, both a landscape designer and an artist, graduated with a degree in Ornamental Horticulture in 2000 when the company began. From initial concept to creation and construction, the two tailor each design with their shared understanding and desire to expand the boundaries of landscape design. Their show gardens as Major Exhibitors have won them various awards in the Philadelphia Flower Show over the past 14 years. The awards include Best in Show in 2022, 2020, and 2017, along with the Silver Trophy in 2023, 2021, 2019, 2018, and 2014. They were also invited to be major exhibitors in the Singapore Garden Festival where they brought home a Gold Medal in 2018.

Petit Jardin en Ville

Petit Jardin en Ville is a modern French lifestyle brand that brings floral design and outdoor living together. They are based in Philadelphia, PA since 2013. They create garden style designs using beautiful combinations of flowers for your house or your friends, for weddings, private events and celebrations. Their garden designs use native and perennial plantings to create dramatic roof decks and terraces, colorful window boxes and beautiful back gardens. They believe in the beauty of simplicity and sustainability. Their Outdoor Living showroom offers a fresh contemporary and playful look with European outdoor furniture from Fermob, Ego Paris, Skargaarden, Manutti, and Kettal as well as lighting from Vibia, kitchen from Roshults and accessories for your home and garden.

Susan Cohan Gardens

Winner of the 2024 PHS Philadelphia Flower Show, Men’s Garden Club of Delaware Valley Award for containing plants suited to the Delaware Valley, Landscape. Susan Cohan, FAPLD is the principal and design director of Susan Cohan Gardens, a full-service landscape design studio dedicated to the creation of exceptional residential outdoor living spaces and gardens. Susan integrates her design expertise with extensive horticultural knowledge to present her clients with a finished space that is responsive to their lifestyle, relevant to the site and environmentally responsible. Located in the New York/New Jersey metro area, her residential landscapes gardens are frequently published and have won numerous awards.

The Men's Garden Club of Philadelphia

Winner of the PHS Philadelphia Flower Show, Special Achievement Award of the Garden Club Federation of Pennsylvania – Horticulture for unusual excellence, Floral. Men's Garden Club of Philadelphia is a group of local gardeners interested in supporting the horticultural arts in Philadelphia.

Waldor Orchids

Winner of the 2024 PHS Philadelphia Flower Show, American Orchid Society Award. Waldor Orchids is your local source for quality orchids since 1925. Located in beautiful south Jersey near your favorite beaches and vacation spots. They carry a large selection of orchids of many species and varieties of rare and unusual plants. Their store is open Friday and Saturday or find them online at www.waldor.com and under WaldorOrchids on all the socials.