This year’s Dan Emmett Music & Arts Festival Flower Show takes a look at ancient traditions by naming its theme “Native American Moons.”

The Flower Show is set up at The Living Center, 201 N. Main St., and is open to visitors today from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The main exhibit is in the fragrant Activity Room. The attractive, warm ambiance of The Living Center makes a pleasant backdrop to the brilliantly arranged flowers and lovingly raised plants on display.

The public can browse the different classes entered by wonderfully creative adults, juniors, amateurs and seasoned arrangers. Williams Flowers, Paul’s Flowers, Lexie Moor and Joy Sprang created special invitational exhibits under the category Moonlight Deliveries.

In the container grown class are a charming clay mother hen with small hen-and-chick “babies” gathered around her in a shallow planter, a blooming African violet and a huge, healthy trailing rex begonia.

The Artistic Designs categories are named for Native American moons. Long ago, Native peoples gave each full moon a name related to events during its phase. Thus, January is the Wolf Moon when hungry wolves, their hunting hindered by deep snow, howled outside the villages. The Worm Moon for March is when earthworms appear, signaling that the robins are back. This month is Green Corn Moon, named for the approaching corn harvest.

Of special interest are the Exhibition Table Picture category, for which entrants incorporated a floral arrangement, tableware, tablecloth and wall coverings, and the Educational Exhibits where visitors can learn all about gardening by the phases of the moon.

All the flower show entries are organic; no artificial plant material was permitted. In keeping with the natural theme, preference was given to entries that are wild, native or garden-grown. Horticulture class entries must have been grown by the exhibitor.

The Flower Show was organized by Debbie and Duane Hurlbert and Ellen Chapman and is sponsored and supported by the Knox County Association of Garden Clubs, Flowers For You, Glass Garden Greenhouse, Williams Flower Shop, Paul’s Flowers, Country Colors, Homewood Farms, Windy Hill and The Living Center.