Get artist-crafted forever blooms at this pop-up Flower Shop
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These sunflowers will never wilt. Photo: Zach Buchanan/Axios
Phoenix is known more for its hardy and heat-resistant desert flora, but if you want vibrant blooms that need neither water nor protection from the summer sun, a new pop-up has you covered.
The latest: The Flower Shop, open for a limited time east of downtown, features thousands of elaborate fabric flowers of all varieties from Australian artist Cj Hendry.
The big picture: Hendry, who has more that 1 million followers on Instagram, has drawn big crowds with her flower exhibits before.
- Phoenix is the first of 14 stops for her pop-up Flower Shop, which will also head to several other U.S. cities as well as Mexico, Europe and Australia.
Zoom in: The Phoenix pop-up, located at 1520 E. Washington Street, opened last week and goes through Nov. 17.
- Inside the event space, the floor is covered with rows of square glass containers filled with bright, plush flowers.
- Each stem is $10, and if you buy nine, the 10th is free.
Zach's thought bubble: This exhibit might as well have been engineered specifically for my 6-year-old daughter, so my wife and I took her this weekend.
- She got five flowers, including one that she insisted was called Veronica. We thought she was just being an imaginative kid prone to anthropomorphizing, but lo and behold, that species is indeed a Veronica.
If you go: The shop is open daily from 10am-6pm. There's no parking onsite, but ample street parking off 15th Street.