Flower Shows & Events Archive - Apr 2008

PE.com

This weekend, the Temecula Valley Rose Society, California will present its 14th annual Rose & Arts Festival. The petal-filled event will take place Saturday and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at the Temecula Community Recreation Center.

skaloosa

The Pella Historical Society, Greece will present its 73rd annual Tulip Time Festival on May 1-3 to celebrate Iowa's most beautiful spring event.

The Seattle Times

The Skagit Valley, U.S. state of Washington, Tulip Festival has been extended through Sunday, May 4, because of the late bloom in the flower fields near Mount Vernon caused by the cold spring.

PRESS TV

Iran's southwestern city of Shiraz is slated to host the country's third international exhibition of flowers and botanical products.

Public Opinion

In the daffodil world, Chambersburg is recognized as having the oldest continuous annual daffodil show in the United States, drawing entries from around the state as well as the region that includes Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia.

INDEPENDENT

J20, a great-tasting juice drink made of exotic fruit combinations, is the main sponsor of the Earth Garden Festival, a celebration of spring for all the family. The festival is being held at Ta' Qali, Malta on Saturday, 10 and Sunday 11 May, open from 2pm on both days. Other sponsors of the festival include Mirinda, Kinnie, Pepsi, Carlsberg, Cisk Export, Beck's and Vladivar.

Knaresborough

Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England Spring Flower Show, which opened its gates yesterday and will run until Sunday, is widely regarded as heralding the start of the gardening year.

Terre Haute

The Greene County Master Gardeners Association, Usa will host its annual Flower and Patio Show, "Welcome to Our Potting Shed" from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Greene County 4-H Fairgrounds.

Metro

One of the first events of the London social "Season," the prestigious annual RHS Chelsea Flower Show flower show has been plant breeders favourite place to launch new plants for the last 85 years.

News10

The city of Roseville, California, United States will begin its centennial celebration next year with an entry in the Tournament of Roses Parade.

Daily Herald

In Holland, Mich., the Tulip Time Festival, May 3-10, celebrates Dutch heritage and culture. It features millions of tulips, 1,400 wooden-shoed dancers, traditional street scrubbers, multiple parades, carnival rides, live entertainment and fireworks. Shop for arts and crafts, lace, foods and more at the Dutch Marktplaats.

Guardian

The Royal Horticultural Society spring show at the Horticultural Halls, Vincent square, London, is one of favourite flower shows of the year. The new hall houses nurseries from all over the country selling their spring flowers and the old hall houses the late daffodil competition and the alpine garden society show.

WLWT

The Cincinnati Flower Show, referred to by Better Homes and Gardens Magazine as "The king of all flower shows," is now taking place at Coney Island.

Canadian News

Hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected to enjoy the three million flowering plants that fill the parks and open spaces in the Ottawa area during the Canadian Tulip Festival, which runs May 2 to 19.

Thaindian

The Al Qasba Flower Festival 2008, showcasing exotic flowers, has begun in Sharjah, UAE and will include entertaining street shows. The festival was inaugurated Friday by United Arab Emirates (UAE) Environment Minister Rashid Ahmed Bin Fahad, WAM news agency reported.

english.eastday

The International Flower Show will be held as a prelude to Shanghai World Expo in the city from March 26 to 28 in 2010, Interflora, the world's largest flower delivery network and floriculture organization, announced on 17-4-2008 at a signing ceremony in Shanghai.

Honolulu Advertiser

Relive the Plantation Days celebrates "Festival of Flowers" at Hawaii's Plantation Village on Saturday, May 3 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Canadian Business

For many winter-weary Canadians, tulips are among the earliest harbingers of spring. Spearing greenly out of winter beds, the majestic flowers hold the promise of longer and warmer days to come. For the City of Ottawa, the annual floral explosion has also blossomed into an economic bouquet: The Canadian Tulip Festival.

Fermanagh Herald

Fermanagh Gardening Society held its 42nd Annual Daffodil and Spring Flower Show in St Macartin's Cathedral, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on Saturday.

Carroll County Comet

Carroll County Garden Club, USA will host the 12th annual Carroll County Flower and Garden Fair on April 26, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Merchant's Building at Flora Community Park.

Trade Arabia

Al Qasba Flower Festival 2008 will open in Sharjah on April 17 showcasing a delightful collection of flowers from around the world.

The Enquirer

It's no longer just about the sweet-smelling flowers and knockout arrangements that get green thumbs itching.

The News

An enchanting exhibition at the private rose garden of an eminent rosarian Ilyas Rizvi, The former general secretary of Pakistan Rose Society and a member of American Rose Society at Bani Gala Monday displayed a collection of over 2,000 varieties of roses.

SignOnSanDiego

"If you wish to be happy for an hour, get intoxicated; if you wish to be happy for three days, get married; if you wish to be happy for eight days, kill a pig and eat it; but if you wish to be happy forever, be a gardener."

Grand Haven Tribune

The Holland Audubon Society will hold a "Spring Butterflies and wild flowers" presentation at 7 p.m. Monday at the Hazel Hayes Auditorium in the Herrick District Library.

Travel Video Television

The free Canadian Tulip Festival, the largest such festival in the world, runs May 2-19, 2008 in Ottawa. Hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected to enjoy the more than three million flowering plants that fill the parks and open spaces in Canada's capital.

Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil

The Nebraska Florists Society, USA is inviting the general public to help judge the Iron Florist Design Competition during the spring meeting at the Lauritzen Gardens, 100 Bancroft St., Omaha.

Cape May County Herald

On April 26 - 27, The Chamber of Commerce of Greater Cape May, New Jersey is hosting its 27th annual Home Décor and Garden show at the Cape May City Elementary School, 921 Lafayette Street, Cape May.

Lompoc Record

Begonias, petunias, zinnias, pansies, geraniums, impatiens and many others blooming annuals and perennials in profuse rows will be waiting to be snatched up from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday in the Union Bank of California's parking lot at H Street and Pine Avenue.

China Post

The 2008 Hakka Tung Blossom Festival will begin today, with seven counties in northern and central Taiwan presenting a variety of activities to celebrate the annual flower season through the end of May.

Highland

For more than 95 years, gardening enthusiasts of all ages have come from thoughout Southern California to enjoy and be inspired by the Redlands Horticultural and Improvement Society Annual Flower Show and Garden Tour.

Essex Echo

THE Canvey Horticultural Society, Essex, England held its first event of the year on Saturday at its new show venue.

Cay Compass

The Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park, Cayman, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom is to design an entry for the prestigious 2008 Chelsea Flower Show.

Greater Kashmir

Each spring Biltmore's Festival of Flowers celebrates the beauty of George W. Vanderbilt's 8,000-acre property and its original design by Frederick Law Olmsted, father of American landscape architecture.

Enterprise News

Nancy Tranchemontagne and Zorayda Salazar never knew each other in their home country of the Philippines, but a keen interest in gardening has helped them build a friendship and a business in Cornwall.

CCTV

The annual Canadian Tulip Festival again blossoms across the capital city of Ottawa. The city has become a huge garden where the national flower of the Netherland's flourishes in abundance.

CCTV

The annual Canadian Tulip Festival again blossoms across the capital city of Ottawa. The city has become a huge garden where the national flower of the Netherland's flourishes in abundance.

Bowen Island Undercurrent

The Language of Flowers by Bowen Island painter Ann Beatty is now showing at The Gallery. The 23 paintings of flowers and gardens are presented in vibrant acrylic on canvas and paper and range in size from 4 3⁄4 inches square to 30 x 40 inches.

The Enterprise

Area residents can welcome spring on Sunday at the Brockton Garden Show at Shaw's Center, One Lexington Ave., Brockton. The event will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

icSolihull

FOR anyone with a craving for crocuses or a preference for pernettyas, a special alpine flower show being held soon might be of interest.

philly.com

In 1926, 1,600 cherry trees were planted in and around Fairmount Park, a gift of friendship to Philadelphia by the Japanese government. This weekend, the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia (founded in 1994) will honor that contribution to the area's springtime beauty with the opening of the 11th Annual Cherry Blossom Festival, initiated by the society and sponsored by Subaru.

Indianapolis

Hendricks County, U.S. state of Indiana Extension Master Gardeners will present Gardening for All Ages, a free show, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Hendricks County Fairgrounds and Conference Center.

SunHerald

The 21st annual Home and Garden Show, presented by the Home Builders Association of the Mississippi Coast, is Saturday and Sunday at the Coast Coliseum and Convention Center. Every year, rows and rows of exhibits offer tempting morsels of horticulture, home building, interior design and home improvement ideas.

Greater Kashmir

Saline County, U.S. state of Arkansas. residents can enter their home-grown plants for display and judging at the annual Spring in Saline Flower Show and Plant Sale.

Lake County Record-Bee

The Lake County, U.S. state Home and Garden Expo is coming to the Lake County Fairgrounds April 19 and 20. The event is sponsored by the Lake County Record-Bee and newly co-sponsored this year by Akeena Solar.

Atlanta Journal Constitution

Spring is upon us and bulbs are popping up all over. Although we love daffodils and feel that one can never have too many, there are a host of other spring bulbs that are beautiful, easy to grow and long lived in the garden.

The Enquirer

The renowned Cincinnati, Ohio Flower Show is April 19-27 at Lake Como, Coney Island. Start sharing your pictures of flowers, plants and anything nature-related and you could win show tickets!

Suburban Journals

The Orchid Society of Greater St. Louis will hold a show and sale in the Orthwein Floral Display Hall of the Missouri Botanical Garden this weekend.

Horncastle Today

BARKWITH and District Gardeners Association, Lincolnshire (UK) are holding their Spring show in the village hall on Saturday April 5 and schedules are available from East Barkwith Post Office.

The Galveston County Daily

Gardeners can almost count on their being two periods of the year when weather conditions are near ideal. One period is during the fall and the other period is during the spring.

Pittsburgh Event

The Daffodil Show is a juried cut flower show that offers the opportunity to daffodil gardeners in the western Pennsylvania area, United States to showcase their best daffodils. Members as well as non-members are welcome to enter. The judges are accredited by the American Daffodil Society and ribbons are awarded to the exhibits that meet specific criteria.

The Daily Echo

A PUBLIC garden in Over-ton, Hampshire is set to burst into life in the next few months after a Chelsea Flower Show award-winner donated plants as well as expertise.

Trees: Guelph's got lots of them, and somebody has to take care of them. That person is Randy Drewery, the supervisor of forestry and horticulture in the operations department.

It's Drewery's job to assess and maintain the health of all trees on municipal property. That includes trees in parks, between sidewalks and roads and - typically - the first 1.5 metres from the edge of the sidewalk towards the house...

Philly

Just a few weeks ago, Stephen Scanniello's garden was spotty with early spring roses - a dash of apricot here, coral there, all green and possibility in between.

Now it's June, the official start of the rose season, and his third of an acre in Barnegat, N.J., is frothy with blooms. They're spilling over trellises and dancing through trees, hugging his 18th-century ?weekend house? and nodding to cars on East Bay Avenue...

Plentiful garden and landscaping ideas will be blooming this weekend for the ׇDistinctive Gardens in Daniel Island Park? tour on Saturday, June 2, from 1 to 4 p.m. The event, organized by the Daniel Island Garden Club, will give visitors the opportunity to explore some of the island?s most private sanctuaries, showcasing eight spectacular gardens in Daniel Island Park, the island?s exclusive country club neighborhood...

The 18th annual Flower Show begins Saturday, following the Friday night opening gala.

Weather this weekend is predicted to be beautiful, but a little rain or snow does not stop gardeners from gathering. They just put on slickers and bright clogs...

What better place to prepare for spring than the Ontario Garden Show? The largest and most anticipated gardening show is back to the RBG Centre, Royal Botanical Gardens, Burlington Ontario for its 11th year...

Waronwant

Mothers in Colombia growing flowers for sale in British supermarkets for Mothers Day face poverty wages, health problems such as repetitive strain injuries and risk miscarriages through exposure to pesticides. The charity War on Want today revealed these findings in new research that calls on trade secretary Alistair Darling to allow overseas workers hit by UK firms to seek redress in Britain.

Cites show similar poverty wages and unhealthy conditions for Kenyan flower employees. These workers, also mostly single mothers, toil long hours for little more than ?5 a week well under half a living wage and cannot meet costs for food, housing, transport, education and health...

The Cincinnati Horticultural Society, the show's producer, will continue the tradition of bringing in national speakers to discuss gardening and cooking. The price to all lectures includes show admission.

The Cincinnati Flower Show, staged annually on the banks of Lake Como at Coney Island, will be held April 21-29...

Robert Vincent Sims, better known as ?The Garden Rebel,? joins a roster of horticulture experts who will dole out tips on how to keep landscapes and lawns green.

But this year's show, which is sponsored by The News-Journal, is placing an added emphasis on keeping the environment green, too, organizers said.

Green, red, blue -- nearly every color imaginable -- will be on display at Everybody's Flower Show, a horticulture competition that draws hundreds of entries from amateur gardeners from throughout the area...

Trade Arabia

More than 200 exhibitors from 22 countries will take part in a horticulture show sheduled to be held in Dubai next month.

The IPM Dubai is being organised by planetfair Dubai and Messe Essen GmbH, Germany, under the patronage of the president of the Department of Civil Aviation, Dubai and chairman of the Emirates Group Shaikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum.

Running from March 6 to 8, at Airport Expo Dubai, IPM Dubai is billed as the Middle East's only event for the fast-growing horticulture industry...

Mainstreetnewspapers

Virginia Cooperative Extension is encouraging Virginians to plant red, white and blue America's Anniversary Gardens as part of the statewide commemoration of the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown in 1607 and enter the 2007 statewide America's Anniversary Garden contest...

Swansons Nursery

Join Megumi Schacher of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana for an ongoing class. She will walk you through some of the basic techniques: teaching ways to turn flowers and plants from your garden into beautiful arrangements for the home. This is a hands-on class, the arrangements you create can be taken home and enjoyed. $25 per class...

Italy is big on flower festivals

Italy is big on flower festivals. One of the most famous is the Infiorata in Noto, a baroque town in Sicily: on the third Sunday in May, a mosaic of petals and seeds covers one of the main streets like a giant, stained-glass window.