The "Dresdner Frühling im Palais" flower exhibition is on course for a record number of visitors. The organizer, Fördergesellschaft Gartenbau Sachsen (FGS), expects that around 43,000 visitors will have seen the total work of art consisting of tens of thousands of flowering plants and shrubs as well as masterful floristry by the finale on Sunday evening. Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer (CDU) also came along as patron of the show.
Visitors also came from other federal states
"The visitors were enchanted by the wonders of nature," said FGS Managing Director Tobias Muschalek. "The guest book is full of words of thanks and enthusiasm - that touches us!" Many visitors had accepted long journeys and sometimes waiting times to see the exhibition. Guests from other eastern German states as well as Bavaria, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate were also welcomed.
This year's edition of the flower show was held under the motto "Oh world of blossoms - what a wonder!" and presented a colorful and spring-like fragrant arrangement in the halls and salons of the palace for ten days. The highlight was an almost six-meter-high tree sculpture in the great hall of the Palais. As a world tree, it was intended to document the majestic beauty of nature. 22 horticultural companies from Saxony had worked for months to bring around 40,000 plants into bloom with pinpoint accuracy.
