Swingtime

Collaborators: Leaf+Line, Riverview Forge, RStone

Honors: Men’s Garden Club of Delaware Award PHS Gardening for the Greater Good PHS Bronze Medal PHS

Indoor garden display with orange and white flowering bushes, green grass, and a wooden swing hanging from ropes, illuminated by colorful lights under a dark ceiling.

Built inside the city’s convention center for the Philadelphia Flower Show in early March 2023, Swingtime won multiple awards for design and sustainability. The garden was a represetation of simple abundance and how we perceive our world in the time just before spring’s warmest days. Swingtime celebrated our longing to be outside and enjoy the fleeting pleasures that stir the natural world into action after every winter’s stillness.

Photography: Jaime Alvarez

Indoor garden display with various trees, flowering plants, and a pathway, illuminated by overhead lighting.
Indoor garden with blooming trees, colorful flowers, a wooden swing, and decorative plants under artificial lights.
Indoor garden exhibit featuring a circular raised garden bed with various flowering trees, shrubs, and plants, illuminated with spotlights in a modern setting.
Indoor garden exhibit with colorful trees, flowers, a swing, and decorative lighting.
Indoor display of colorful flowering trees and plants in a botanical garden exhibit with overhead lights and dark industrial ceiling.
Indoor garden exhibit with trees, shrubs, flowers, rocks, and small pond, under bright artificial lighting.
Indoor garden with various plants, trees, and flowers illuminated by bright ceiling lights. Rocks and logs are used as decoration, and a stone path winds through the garden.
A garden scene with yellow daffodils, a weathered piece of driftwood, moss, small plants, and a stone border in the background.