Here’s Your First Look at the 2016 Boston Flower & Garden Show

Not pictured: the scents.

By Madeline Bilis· 3/15/2016, 12:18 p.m.

Newport Flower Show display / Photo by Madeline Bilis

Do you smell that? The region’s largest spring flower and garden show will return to the city on March 16 for an exhibition of all things green, leafy, and aromatic.

Nature’s bounty is on display indoors at the Seaport World Trade Center, where almost 20 professionally designed gardens anchor a maze of colorful petals, gardening products, and landscape supplies. Dubbed “Nurtured by Nature,” the 2016 Boston Flower & Garden Show attempts to reflect how the care put into a garden is returned to the gardener’s spirits. Workshop highlights include floral arranging, garden photography, beekeeping, with how-tos for maintaining hydrangeas, peonies, succulent gardens, and rose gardens.

Some exhibitors began setting up their displays as early as this Sunday, transporting materials like stonework and fountains, and then assembling them and arranging plantings in time for competition judging. In additional to florist competitions involving tiny gnome homes and window boxes, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society is coordinating competitions in floral design, Ikebana, or Japanese floral arrangement, photography, and horticulture.

Doors open on Wednesday, March 16 at 10 a.m.

The Boston Flower & Garden Show, By the Numbers

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More than 15 gardens will be on display

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150 vendors will be in attendance

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More than 1,000 different types of plants will be exhibited

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45 lectures and demonstrations by top horticulturalists, garden writers, and landscape designers are scheduled

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48 judges will oversee the show’s competitions

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32 percent of visitors attend the show every year

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The show brings in 65,000 attendees annually

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Adult admission is $20, March 16-20, Seaport World Trade Center, 200 Seaport Blvd., Boston, for schedules and more information visit bostonflowershow.com.