Flower Shows & Events Archive - Aug 2007

Ballard-based Salmon Bay Events, organizers of North America's third-largest flower and garden show, today announced initial details on the 20th annual Northwest Flower & Garden Show (http://www.gardenshow.com).

“Today's most important gardening trend is that more and more people are coming to view their gardening areas, including yards and decks, as a vital living spaces,” said Duane Kelly, chairman and founder of Salmon Bay Events. “With this in-mind, we chose a theme that reflects that growing movement -- Live Beautifully. Live Outdoors.”

When UC Botanical Garden's rare titan arum, Amorphophallus titanium (corpse flower), blooms this week, the flower will both attract and repel visitors. When the plant opens to a diameter of three to four feet, titan arum looks visually arresting, but it's best known for a characteristic that can only be experienced firsthand after it blooms: its distinctive odor...

The long-standing connections between Shrewsbury Flower Show and military units will be underlined at the 120th spectacular this year by the appearance of an Army motorcycle display team regarded as the best in the world.

Celebrating its 80th anniversary this year, the 30-strong Royal Signals White Helmets will perform in the arena at the Quarry twice each day on August 10 and 11...

The Open Day, to be held at UQ Gatton campus on August 20, will give commercial native flower growers an inside view of the latest research being conducted by the CNF on native plants - including plant breeding, plant production and postproduction issues.

It will also provide an opportunity for native flower growers to network...

GREEN fingered gardeners from across Furness are putting the finishing touches to their prize plants and vegetables which will be entered for judging at one of the region's longest established shows.

The Greenodd and District Horticultural Society is holding its 65th annual show on Saturday August 25.

It will take place in the village hall in Greenodd?s main street, starting at 2pm...

There is a August Floral Exhibition North Down Museum Sat 25 - Sun 26 Aug..

Ornamental horticulture classes, ranging from irrigation design to organic vegetable gardening, are set for the fall semester at Monterey Peninsula College.

Courses begin the week of Aug. 27 and continue through Dec. 20. The schedule includes introduction to ornamental horticulture; a course on trees; plant identification; horticultural sales and business practices; irrigation design and water economy; organic vegetable gardening; and water features for gardens...

Receiving a beautiful bouquet of flowers or picking one up for yourself is a thrill.

Now, though, comes the challenge: how to keep those bouquets looking fresh and lovely for as long as possible.

It is a three-prong process, say Ann and Sara Petrosky, co-owners of Thallo Design Floral Studio in Melbourne...

The Japanese honeysuckle, Lonicera japonica, hails from eastern Asia including Japan, Korea, northern and eastern China and Taiwan. It plays a great part in the scented garden, its sweet, evocative perfume free on the air.

As a child, I would risk the sting of bees and shoo them away from the nectar bar the honeysuckle had provided them, to pick the flowers and suck the sugary nectar from their bases...

The latest addition to the burgeoning worldwide phenomenon of the conceptual garden show is the first International Garden Festival (IGF) at Emo Court in County Laois, Ireland - right in the middle of the country.

This is a superbly organised and well-curated event, boasting perhaps the most beautiful setting of any such festival, in the park of a 1790 neo-classical mansion designed by James Gandon...

1-800-FLOWERS.COM (NASDAQ: FLWS), a leading florist and multi-channel retailer of thoughtful gifts for all occasions, today announced that the Company will release financial results for its fiscal 2007 fourth quarter and full year (ended Sunday, July 1, 2007) on Wednesday, August 8, 2007. The press release will be issued prior to market opening and will be followed by a conference call with members of senior management at 11:00 a.m. EDT...

Flowers by Emslie and Company, a 110-year-old floral shop, will open this weekend at its new location in the city's historic fire station on 8 S. Main St.

While the primary tenant will be Valerie and Richard Beaudet's garden shop, other inhabitants include the Granite City Craft Gallery, the Firehouse Roasting Company and Cafe, the Vermont Firefighter's Museum, T-Ja's Studio, Wheeler Environmental Services and Amy Miller (a registered nurse)...

Exhibits in quilted art, needlecraft, clothing and hobbycraft will be accepted at the coliseum Monday, July 30, 3-8 p.m.

Vegetable show, food preservation, youth, art and photography exhibits will also be accepted on Monday.

Flower show exhibits will be accepted on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 8-10 a.m...

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...

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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...

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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...

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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.