Flower Shows & Events Archive - Feb 2009

Portland Flower Show

The Portland Flower Show, which has run for 10 of the past 12 years and is the only remaining exhibition of its kind in Northern New England in 2009, will open Wednesday, March 11.

Garden Club

The Lexington Field and Garden Club will present Sue Kaplan's demonstration on Flower Arranging, entitled ?Live in Color,? on Wednesday, March 11 at the National Heritage Museum, 33 Marrett Road in Lexington.

Punjab Agricultural University

The flower show at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) pulled more crowds than before with the organizers recording a whopping increase of 30% entries for various competitions under 10 categories.

Bedford Garden Club

The Bedford Garden Club will have its own mini flower show on Tuesday, March 10. Kirsten Van Dijk will fashion four or five floral arrangements which will then be raffled off.

Free Winter Garden Fair

Everyone is invited to the 15th annual Free Winter Garden Fair -- a weekend of demonstrations, informational booths, food, music, and of course, beautiful brilliant plants and flowers.

Home & Garden Show

The Home and Garden Show is going on this weekend in Eau Claire at the Eau Claire Indoor Sports Center. You can find vendors, seminars and displays for all-types of home improvement projects at the show, from building to landscaping and energy efficiency.

WDuquesne Light Pittsburgh Home & Garden Show

The 28th annual Duquesne Light Pittsburgh Home & Garden Show will feature more than 1,500 exhibitors spread across both floors of the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.

Home and Garden Show

The Capital Home & Garden Show returns for four days only, Thursday, Feb. 26 through Sunday, March 1, 2009, at the Dulles Expo Center.

Home and flower show

Those looking to remodel or touch up their home or landscape can find resources and ideas at the 15th Annual HBA Akron Home and Flower Show presented by Infinity from Marvin. The 2009 event takes place Feb.27 through March 1 at the John S. Knight Center.

Flower of life workshop

A Flower of Life Workshop will be offered at Visions Metaphysical Boutique, 101 Franklin Street, in downtown Clarksville on March 27, 28, and 29 from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Home & Flower Show

If you're thinking of sprucing up a little around the house, you might want to stop in at the Home Builders Association serving Portage & Summit Counties' 15th annual Akron Home and Flower Show, which is set for Feb. 27 to March 1 at the John S.Knight Center.

Home & Flower Show

Looking for some mid-winter landscape inspiration? Starting tomorrow, you can catch two showcase homes being decorated and landscaped.

Annual Massachusetts Camellia Society Show

The 180th annual Massachusetts Camellia Society Show takes place 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Tower Hill Botanical Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston. Admission is $10, $7 for seniors, $5 for children 6 to 18, and free for children under 6.

Garden Club of Georgia

The Garden Club of Georgia and Pebble Hill Plantation will host the State Flower Show Feb. 20-21 on the grounds of Pebble Hill.

Punjab Agriculture University

A flower show and competition will be organised by the Department of Floriculture and Landscaping, Punjab Agriculture University (PAU), on the university campus on February 25 and 26 as part of Dr M S Randhawa's birth anniversary celebrations.

Rhode Island show

The Rhode Island Spring Flower and Garden Show, Thursday through Feb. 22 in Providence at the Rhode Island Convention Center, and the Connecticut Flower and Garden Show at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford that same weekend.

Bluffs town hall

Club president Gaylyn McIntyre said about 100 people turned up to see 638 entries in categoriesthat included flowers, floral art, vegetables, baking, preserves, and handcrafts.

Flower and Garden Show

One of the largest and most prestigious flower shows in all of New England, the "28th annual Connecticut Flower & Garden Show" will be held Thursday, Feb.19-Sunday, Feb. 22 at the Connecticut Convention Center on 100 Columbus Ave. in Hartford.

Rhode Island Convention Center

With buds about to blossom, the plants are coming to Providence in heated trucks for the flower show, opening Thursday through next Sunday at the Rhode Island Convention Center.

Wisbech Standard

The Aspley Orchid Society's Summer Show celebrating Valentine's Day will be held this weekend at the auditorium, Mt. Coot-tha Botanical Gardens.

Camellia Flower Show

The second annual Judged Camellia Flower Show sponsored by the Southeast Alabama Camellia Society and the Dothan Area Botanical Gardens will be held Saturday, Feb. 21, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church Family Life Center in Dothan.

Flower and Garden show

Next week's Northwest Flower & Garden Show is your chance to get the garden off to a good start. Whether that garden is a suburban acre, a P-Patch plot, a shady courtyard or a couple of pots on the deck, you'll find everything you need at the show.

Home & Garden Show

Foss will bring his green tips and techniques to the Des Moines Home & Garden Show Feb. 12 to 15 at the Iowa Events Center.

Cape Coral Winter Home and Garden Show

The News-Press second annual Cape Coral Winter Home and Garden Show will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Coralwood Shopping Center, 2301 Del Prado Blvd., north of Veterans Parkway.

Mid-Atlantic Home & Flower Show

Win A Pair Of Tickets To The Mid-Atlantic Home & Flower Show At The Virginia Beach Convention Center February 13-15, 2009.Mid-Atlantic Home & Flower Show offers education and entertainment for all ages and offers all of the inspiration you'll need to get ready for spring.

Northwest flower garden show

The possible final Northwest Flower and Garden Show will be held this Feb. 18 to 22 at the Washington Convention Center. It was the first major event ever produced at the convention center.

Garden club show

The theme of the flower show was 'Love is in the Air'. And judging by the sheer lush beauty of the many fresh plants at the event, it was clear that a great deal of love had been gently bestowed upon the more than 300 entries on display, as well as on the 50 elegant design entries.

Home and Garden show

Hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected to attend the 66th Annual Fifth Third Bank Home & Garden Show Feb. 7 through 15 at the I-X Center in Cleveland.

Flower and Garden show

The Northwest Flower & Garden Show in Seattle Feb. 18-22 will feature 119 speakers for a full round of free-with-admission seminars. Among those on deck are Swedish landscape architect Ulf Nordfjell, perennial expert Tracy DiSabato-Aust and TV-show personality Joe Lamp'l.

Cleveland home and garden show

With its high-end exhibits, accessible expert advice and sophisticated project ideas, hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected to attend the 66th annual Fifth Third Bank Home & Garden Show.

Flower Festival

Music, fun and a glass of wine await guests at an evening to raise funds for the Marsworth Flower Festival.

Foyer Gallery

"Embodied Spirit" is the title of a new focus exhibition which has just opened at the Foyer Gallery. The four gallery artists presenting samples of their art are: Jay Anderson, Ruirong Yu, Linda Privitera and Paul Hopkinson. The show will continue until Feb.8.

Rose varieties

The gardens include a musical garden, spiritual garden, herbal garden and a bio-diversity park all of which are open to the public from February 7 to March 10 between 10 am to 4 pm daily, except Mondays. While entry will be stopped at 4 pm, the gardens will be open for viewing till 5 pm.

Light Flower show

The Edison Festival of Light flower show is scheduled to run from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. today and Friday at the Bell Tower Shops in south Fort Myers.

Northwest Flower & Garden Show

With its cheerful colors and heady scents, next month's Northwest Flower & Garden Show might seem to be the perfect pick-me-up for an economically brutal winter filled with layoffs and shutdowns.

Philadelphia Flower show

The weather may be cold outside, but flowers and summer gardening intentions are blooming inside. The East Brunswick Friends of the Library announce their annual upcoming bus trip to the Philadelphia Flower Show on Thursday, March 5th.

Oregon's Garden Show

They come by the thousands to the Portland Home & Garden Show with dreams, plans and ideas, gardeners looking forward to spring and all things green.

Home and Garden Show

The Leisure & Cultural Services Department reminds that entries for the Hong Kong Flower Show 2009 plant exhibit competition will close February 6. Applications are free.

New England Spring Flower Show

When organizers pulled the plug on this year's New England Spring Flower Show, they cut off a vital link between businesses and customers who connected at the annual show.

Annual Flower show

IN A DAZZLING DISPLAY of colour and foliage the annual flower show of the Barbados Horticulture Society came to an end over the weekend.

Camellias,to be exact.

With the 46th annual Camellia Show coming up on February 7 and 8, Camellia aficionados are gearing up for the yearly event that Brookhaven is famous for and to welcome Camellia lovers from across the country.

Design blossoms at show

The more technical aspects of roses, carnations, lilies, daisies and other flowers will be showcased this weekend at the Deptford Mall.

Gardening Expert Melinda Myers

Nationally known gardening expert, TV host and author Melinda Myers will begin her 2009 Spring Flower Show Tour this week, sharing fun ideas and practical advice with fellow gardeners.

The annual flower show

It promises to be a treat for nature lovers. The annual flower show organised by the Agri-Horticultural Society of India begins next week (February 5-8).

callawaygardens

Geared toward gardening in the South, this event offers a complete one-stop gardening marketplace, exciting optional workshops and outstanding lectures! Discover the best roses; the best clematis; the best fruits and perennials for the South at Callaway Gardens, Mountain Creek Inn, Pine Mountain, GA on January 16th, 2009 at 10 am, through the 18th

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.