Flower Shows & Events Archive - Jan 2007

The Tacoma Orchid Society is conducting a orchid show on 20th and 21st of January at Windmill Gardens, 5823 160th Ave E., Sumner, WA.

Tournament of Roses

118th Rose parade themed Our Good Nature, will take place on Monday, January 1, 2007 at 8:00 a.m. (PST) featuring spirited marching bands from throughout the nation, majestic floral floats, and high-stepping equestrian units.

One of the highlights of the parade is that it would be featuring the World's Tallest Roses...

Malaysia is celebrating 50 glorious years of independence with the Visit Malaysia Year 2007 campaign. With over 240 exciting events and programmes lined up, it will be a year-long celebration for both Malaysians and visitors alike.

In conjunction with Visit Malaysia Year 2007, the Malaysia Floral Fest is back with the biggest and most colorful display of flora in Malaysia. For a whole week in January (20 Jan - 4 Feb 2007), Putrajaya and Kuala Lumpur will be transformed into venues brimming with bright, colorful and fragrant blooms...

Changhua Flower Expo 2007 will start from 01 Jan 2007 and will end on 31st Mar 2007. The event will take place at Changhua, Taiwan. Conceived as a way of boosting Taiwan?s flower industry, the annual Changhua Flower Expo sees the exhibition halls bursting with the wonderful colours and scents of incredible floral displays. Held over approximately a 10-week period at the start of the year, this is a fun event that is popular with budding horticulturalists and gardeners of all ages...

Connors State College is offering horticulture classes for the spring 2007 semester.Topics include: residential landscaping, maintaining the home landscape and selecting plants for Oklahoma landscapes. Potential students will be able to select one class or two or take all three classes.The first class offered is residential landscaping. Class meets from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Thursdays on Jan. 18, 25, Feb. 1, 8 and 15 in Warner.Maintaining the home landscape will detail what to do to your landscape. The class meets Thursdays on Feb. 22, March 1, 8, 15 and 29.Selecting plants for Oklahoma landscape meets on Thursday evenings on April 5, 12, 19, 26, and May 3.The cost for each of the three classes is $71.45. Enrollment can be completed at the registrars office at the Muskogee or Warner campuse.

Calyx

International Cordyline Society is organising a Tropical Fair at the Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Australia on 27th and 28th January, 2007...

The University of Maine Cooperative Extension is now taking applications for its 14-week master gardener volunteer training.The training begins on Jan. 26 and is held on Friday mornings through May 4, 2007...

Myanmar will hold a huge floriculture show in the country's famous northern city of Pyin Oo Lwin in the middle of this month to promote tourism.

The six-day floriculture show, which will commence Dec. 15 and will be attached with a festival marking the diamond jubilee of the famous National Kandawgyi Garden (NKG) in Pyin Oo Lwin and the opening of the new National Landmarks Garden near the NKG, will showcase 500,000 domestic floral plants and orchids as well as some rare foreign plants, according to the organizer.

The flower festival will be the first of its kind in the Kandawgyi park's history since it was established in 1915 as a botanical garden...

Pioneer Press

The flower show features hundreds of poinsettias, highlighting about 13 varieties of the traditional holiday plant: deep red ones, accented by pink, peach and white varieties, and deep purple-blue salvia plants. The conservatory is in Como Park at 1225 Estabrook Drive. For more information, call 651-487-8200...

U Mass Turf

The 2007 Annual Lawn Care Seminar (January 30, 2007 at Sturbridge Host Hotel - Sturbridge, Massachusettes) will address topics relating to worker safety, water and other environmental resources protection, aspects of turfgrass physiology, and best management practices particularly related to pest management. Lawn, landscape, municipal and sports turf professionals and crews, and anyone else interested in the ecologically sound, economically feasible management of turf should attend as they gear up for the 2007 season...

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.