Nine Daytime Windows in Nine Days
The Indiana Flower + Patio Show opens Saturday 13 March 2027 and closes Sunday 21 March. It runs nine consecutive days with no dark day, at the Indiana State Fairgrounds & Event Center, 1202 E. 38th St., Indianapolis. Doors open at 10 a.m. on each date.
Each session fits inside one day. Saturday 13, Friday 19 and Saturday 20 run ten hours to an 8 p.m. close. The four weekdays run nine hours to a 7 p.m. close. Both Sundays run seven hours to a 5 p.m. close. The nine dates carry 80 hours of show floor.
The grid puts two full weekends inside the run: Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 March, then Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 March. Five nights separate the two Saturdays, and eight nights cover the full run.
The Terms That Separate the Nine Dates
Sunday 14 March is Teacher Day, with free entry for teachers and school staff on a valid ID. Tuesday 16 March is Senior Day, free for anyone 65 and over, and the organiser sells no online ticket for the date. Friday 19 March is Hero Day, free for active military, veterans, police and fire personnel, and the Fairgrounds adds free parking for the day.
The other six dates carry $15 at the door and $13 online, with children 12 and under free on all nine dates. From Monday 15 to Thursday 18 March, admission after 5 p.m. at the box office is $5. Those four weekday sessions close at 7 p.m., so the discounted window runs two hours a day and eight hours across the run.
The Day-Room Benchmark
Dayuse's Indianapolis city page reads an average price of $87.43 for a day room, with Quality Inn & Suites Southport as its recommended hourly property. Read 25 September 2026.
The hotelSlots directory for Indianapolis reads 273 hotels available and 123 hotels to choose from on the same date.
The Overnight Comparator
The Fairgrounds routes housing to a preferred-hotel list it runs with Visit Indy. Read on 25 September 2026, that list carries 85 properties, each with a distance field measured from the Fairgrounds. The nearest is Bottleworks Hotel at 3.20 miles, and the farthest is Hotel Carmichael, Autograph Collection at 9.97 miles.
Four properties sit inside 4 miles, 38 between 4 and 6, 18 between 6 and 8, and 25 between 8 and 10. Every record stores a null rate. With 13 to 14 March 2027 entered on the same read, the first 20 rendered cards produced figures from $189 to $799 for the night, against the $87.43 day-room average.
What Would Rank the Dates
No page on this track publishes a daily attendance figure, a ticket pace, a room-night count or a forecast. The organiser's About Us page counts 300-plus booths. The venue's event page republishes the nine clocks, the admission tiers, the $10 facility charge per vehicle and the four gates. The show's media page carries press resources and no attendance figure.
The published terms separate the dates in three ways. Three dates open free entry to a defined group. Friday 19 March also moves the parking charge. Three dates carry a ten-hour session and an 8 p.m. close.
A day-use desk works from nine dated windows of seven to ten hours, three of them free at the door, and a city day-room average for its rate card.