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The 22nd Annual Rhode Island Spring Flower & Garden Show
Though snow may be falling, Spring is still calling! The 22nd Annual Rhode Island Spring Flower & Garden Show will be held Thursday, February 19th, 2015 – Sunday, February 22 2015. The hours will be Thursday – Saturday 10am – 8pm and Sunday 10am – 6pm at the RI Convention Center, 1 Sabin Street, Providence RI 02903. The theme of this year is Garden Adventures and promises delight and discovery for your entire family! Is your child interested in how food is grown? Care to peak their interest? The displays will encourage children and adults alike to be interactive with the displays, make yourself at home, try it on for your garden. Be enchanted by the life sized fairy house, tunnel garden and tree house! The winding paths through the unique garden displays will leave you inspired to break out the drawing board and make plans for your back yard come spring! Looks like we will have plenty of time to plan while this snow thaws! Take your time, leave winter outside and find yourself in simulated summer and springtime! Sometimes you have to fake it till you make it right?! Soak up the cutting edge information speakers and demonstrators will be there to provide so you can take the tools home with you an finally dig in to those projects your eager to start in your back yard.
Got Cabin Fever with kids off of school and cooked up by the weather? Worry not! The Rhode Island Environmental Education Association (RIEEA), a collaborative network of individuals and organizations committed to environmental education, has got you covered! Take your kids up to the fifth floor to the Kids Adventure Zone where they will have fun 
activities to help your kids gain an understanding for the environment and get excited about their relationship with it! Let your child’s imagination run wild while they listen to local story tellers, delight in puppet shows and watch live animal demonstrations. There will be on going ecological activities throughout the weekend. Activities include touch tanks brought to you by Save The Bay, scavenger hunts, the Roger Williams Park Zoo Zoomobile, Owl presentations by the Audubon society & a puppet show by the Norman Bird Sanctuary! Don’t miss this opportunity to increase your own knowledge of the environment through lessons fit for your kids and rest easy knowing you’ve got a sure fire way to entertain your family for the entire day or weekend!
For tickets in advance by phone ~ 401-253-0246, mail (RI Spring Flower & Garden Show, P.O. Box 674 Bristol, RI 02809) and online beginning Oct. 17, 2014. They accept all major credit cards including: MasterCard, Visa, American Express, and Discover via a secure PayPal store. Please make checks payable to Flower Show Management, Ltd. Tickets are also available at www.ticketmaster.com.
