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Drew Becher, president of the horticultural society, said he was exploring potential corporate partnerships across the region and nation and hoped to create attractive packages offering benefits to the companies and the horticultural society,... After 20 years and more than $7 million in corporate support, PNC Bank has ended its big-time commitment to the Philadelphia International Flower Show, bank and show officials confirmed Thursday. Others might want to underwrite exhibits or appearances by celebrity gardeners, or support bringing exhibits to the Philadelphia show from the Royal Horticultural Society's famed Chelsea Flower Show in London. There are so many ways the Flower Show can work with companies," Becher said. Mills remains on the board of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, which wrapped up the 2011 Flower Show on March 13 with its highest attendance in nine years. He said the bank would continue to financially support and work with the horticultural society, though not in the same way.

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Paris arrives in full bloom at Philadelphia Flower Show (With Video)

The fragrances, flora, fashion and even the food of France will fill the Pennsylvania Convention Center beginning Saturday when the doors swing open on the 2011 edition of the Philadelphia International Flower Show.

Monroe man's birdhouses at Philadelphia Flower Show

But never, in more than two decades living on the Black Horse Pike, has someone bought as many birdhouses from him as Michael Petrie, designer of PNC Bank's exhibit at the Philadelphia International Flower Show. "Most of them I give away," Shinn said.

Chestnut Hill's flower power on full display this year

The show opens this Sunday. (Alan Tu/NewsWorks) Chestnut Hill's impact on this year's Philadelphia Flower Show is huge. First, Chestnut Hill resident Drew Becher is now president of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, which puts on the Flower Show.

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The River Edge Recreation Commission sponsors an annual bus trip to the Philadelphia Flower Show on Tuesday, March 8. The bus leaves KBG Park at 8:30am and returns at 6:15pm. The cost is $50 per person for

Video: Getting the prized Begonia to the show

To win the blue ribbon at the 2011 Philadelphia Flower Show you still have to get your plant to the hall in the same condition it was when it left its safe, south-facing window. "The temperature is real tricky this time of year," said Kevin Myer,

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