Martha Stewart visited the Philadelphia Flower Show during its final weekend
America's goddess of all things home decor stopped by for sweet flower talk.
Martha Stewart stopped by the Flower Show at the Pennsylvania Convention Center Saturday during its final weekend and shared a video on social media about her intensely Philly floral experience.
Dressed in a fuzzy tan button-up jacket over a classic monochromatic black ensemble, Stewart chatted it up with creative director and vice president of the Philadelphia Flower Show, Seth Pearsoll. The petal pushers gushed over their shared love of blooms, shrubs, and greenery.
Pearsoll described the woodland scene behind him and the two marveled at the tulips, tiarella, and flowering trees.
“It’s so beautiful,” Stewart says in the reel that has garnered more than 170K views. “Every single garden here is beautiful. It takes a tremendous job of planning, a tremendous job of growing, and a tremendous job of installation.”
Stewart — America’s goddess of all things lifestyle and home decor — is an avid gardener, the mistress of a 156-acre farm in Katanoh, NY that is lush with Japanese maples and ferns.
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In the 2024 Netflix documentary, Martha, she decreed: “If you want to be happy for a year, get married. If you want to be happy for a decade, get a dog. And if you want to be happy for the rest of your life, make a garden.”
Last March, HarperCollins published Stewart’s 101st book, Martha Stewart’s Gardening Handbook: The Essential Guide to Designing, Planting, and Growing, a definitive book about how regular people can cultivate gardens. This May, HarperCollins will release book, The Martha Way: Essential Principals for Mastering Home and Living.
In addition to Stewart’s coveted cooking and entertaining tips, she’ll offer thoughts on gardening in the book, specifically around composting and growing vegetables.
Stewart and Pearsoll joked that a visit to the nation’s flower shows — in Philly, Massachusetts, or Rhode Island — might magically lead to warm weather, overriding the predictions of Punxsutawney Phil.
“I think the more people come to the show the quicker winter goes away,” Pearsoll says in the video. “Let’s do our part to end winter and get to spring.”
With Tuesday’s near record-breaking 80-degree temps, perhaps they are right.