Flower Shows & Events Archive - Dec 2007

The 20th annual Northwest Flower & Garden Show is set for Feb. 20 to 24 at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center.

This year's show will feature 26 world-class display gardens, 120 how-to seminars and an appearance by Academy Award-winning actress Sally Field, who will speak on the health benefits of gardening...

Games organisers have ordered more than 1000 roses from Attleborough-based Peter Beales Roses which will be planted in the grounds of the event and will help transform the city into a floral extravaganza.

Over forty million flowers of more than 500 varieties will be used to help decorate Beijing and images of the stunning displays will be beamed across the world...

Building on its heritage of bringing awareness to the importance of water conservation and environmental preservation through its participation in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Rain Bird, the leading manufacturer and provider of irrigation products and services will once again pay tribute to the central role that water plays in sustaining all of the Earth's inhabitants with its 2008 float entry, Preservation Celebration.

In accordance with the 2008 Rose Parade theme, Passport to the World's Celebrations, and Rain Bird's steadfast commitment to The Intelligent Use of Water, Preservation Celebration vividly captures the intimate relationship that exists between water and life by celebrating India's rich heritage of weaving the natural resource into the fabric of its cultural celebrations...

Flower show : There is a Three-day chrysanthemum show is on at Ujjayanta Palace in Agartala...

Flower markets serving this New Year (Tet holiday) will open on January 30, 2008 and close on February 6, announced HCM City...

The HCM City Department of Transportation and Public Works has submitted its plan to establish additional Tet flower markets to the People?s Committee for approval...

Da Lat City is now ready of the Flower Festival 2007 which will open in December.

The festival is used as a way of introducing the specialty of this city, often dubbed the city of flower. It also helps restore and develop the city?s cultural heritage.

This year, a parade named Bringing pollen to the flowers will be organised by the Vietnam XQ Embroidery Company.

The parade is expected to be an impressive highlights for visitors to Da Lat City for the 2007 Flower Festival, and will be held in the Da Lat XQ Weaving craft village on December 13 and 14.

Vo Van Quan, XQ Vietnam Director said that besides the main activities, the staff and artisans of the XQ company will have a Da Lat Children's Day in which each member of staff and artsan will contribute a part to the 1000 year Thang Long embroidered picture, as well as introducing their art works, including songs, poems or pictures. The money collected at this event will be forwarded to the poor children fund...

Deseret news

With millions of poinsettias being sold in this country each year, it's easy to forget other plants that make popular Christmas gifts.

Amaryllises, as they are commonly called, are likely the most regal of all the plants you might attempt to grow indoors. With only minimal care on your part, they will transform from a leafless bulb into some of the most striking blossoms imaginable.

Like many other plants, they are misnamed. The true amaryllises are the belladonna lily or naked ladies. Amaryllis belladonna is native to South Africa. The plants we grow as interior flowers are called amaryllis but are really hippeastrums...

Sunstar

THE 13th version of the Baguio flower festival or Panagbenga 2008 was launched at the City Hall lobby last Monday with City Government officials and employees in attendance, and with the theme Celebrating 13 years of Caring.

The program moved on with the presence of Baguio Representative Mauricio Domogan, while Mayor Reinaldo Bautista Jr. declared the official launching of the flower festival...

Taiwan headlines

The 12 companies that have set up shop in Tainan County's Taiwan Orchid Plantation have seen their business turnover growing up to three times their original investments, Tainan Magistrate Su Huan-chih said Friday.

Su told 11 visiting South African parliamentarians of the Democratic Alliance -- a liberal political party -- that the investments made by these companies in the orchid biotechnology park have totaled NT$200 million and that in less than three years, their combined production value has tripled their investment...

The News

The closing ceremony of a dry flower arrangement competition and exhibition organised by the Artisan Society was held Saturday at the Artisan Gallery here.

Senator Talha Mehmood, Chairman Senate Standing Committee for Interior was the chief guest on the occasion, says a press release. Najma Khan, Programme Executive Artisan Society, in her introductory address, briefed that the society, which was founded in 1997 by a group of friends, charges nothing from the artists and the running expenses are contributed by the gallery administration...

Grandforks herald

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Orchids grow in strange places. You can find them on Kansas prairies, along Missouri streams and atop the frigid Himalayas.

But an even more exotic locale for the colorful plants is found in David Bird's underground cave in Kansas City, Mo...

Post-gazette

As the weather turns colder and the days grow shorter, the garden view from our window lacks the wonderful palette of what once was. We can fill this void with two colorful bulbs, the paperwhite narcissus and amaryllis. Both can be planted at staggered intervals in order to create an ongoing indoor display throughout the winter months.

Paperwhites produce dainty clusters of white flowers above deep green foliage. They are fragrant, but their musky odor is not universally appealing. It can be an acquired smell that becomes more acceptable as we focus on the beauty of the flowers...

Daily pilot

Orange Coast College's Ornamental Horticulture Department will conduct its 30th annual public poinsettia plant sale Friday, Dec. 7 on campus.?

Approximately 12,000 plants have been grown by OCC's horticulture students this fall in the campus' five greenhouses. Plants will be sold in the Horticulture Garden, located off Adams Avenue, adjacent to the college's Technology Center...

Express India

PAU Vice-Chancellor Dr Manjit Singh Kang today inaugurated a two-day chrysanthemum show in the university.

A beautiful array of chrysanthemum pots of about 275 varieties belonging to button, pompon, anemone, spider and spoon chrysanthemum blooms are on display at the show. Some flowers had refluxed petals which, with attractive colour patterns, were much admired by the onlookers...

The horticulture classes at C.A. Prosser School of Technology are beginning to reap the rewards of their hard work.

They are selling poinsettias now through Christmas break or sooner if the 1,500 plants are sold before Dec. 21.

The plants which are available in red, white, pink and jingle bells are $6.50 each and can be purchased from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Prosser, 4202 Charlestown Road, in New Albany...

The Brown County Garden Club will celebrate the holidays and review its 2007 activities at a Christmas luncheon at the home of Laura Stuart on December 6.

During 2007 the garden club welcomed three new members, Barbara Braun, Karen Reichart and Mary Wood. The club held its second annual Thanksgiving flower bouquet sale, participated in the planning of the Garden Club of Indiana state convention in Nashville, landscaped two Habitat for Humanity homes, received a $1,400 grant from Garden Clubs of Indiana to support Habitat efforts, restored the gardens at the Career Resource Center, held its first Secret Gardens of Brown County garden tour, participated in Nashville's Downtown Saturday Night, began restoration of the Children's Garden at the Brown County Public Library, held monthly meetings planned with education, fellowship and food in mind and decorated a table at the Artful Dining Gala, for which the garden club won the People?s Choice Award for the best decorated table...

The Haverhill Garden Club's annual greenery sale is Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the basement of City Hall.

Items for sale include balsam wreaths, boxwood trees, holiday table arrangements and kissing balls, which are all handcrafted by members of the club. Prices range from $10 to $30...

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.