After last year’s inaugural festival sold more than 1,000 tickets and raised $27,327 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the Flower Fest returns to Pointe Marie.
Next month, expect another weekend of Instagrammable backdrops and towering sculptures made from flowers and greenery, as well as food from local vendors garnished with pretty petals.
With a new theme of “Out of this World,” Flower Fest founder Amy Vandiver says this year’s competing florists are dreaming up sculptures that are otherworldly. Installations might glow in the dark or incorporate iridescent materials to make them seem like they belong in the gardens of neighboring planets.