Flower Shows & Events Archive - Feb 2007

The annual flower show will be held from February 7th to 11th, 2007. The show is presented by Pike Family Nurseries at the Georgia World Congress Center, in Building C, located on Northside Drive...

All roads lead to Baguio City as the annual Flower Festival starts on February 1. “We in the executive committee would see to it that we improve our featured activities every year,” festival chairman Damaso Bangaoet said. He noted all tourism-oriented establishments here are now ready to give visitors comfort and the best services Baguio is known for.

The Flower Festival is the main tourism activity in this mountain resort which draws at least 500,000 visitors. Traditionally, the most attended activity is the float parade and street dancing but Bangaoet said this year, more activities will be enjoyed both by the participants and spectators...

Royal Botanic Gardens

Tropical Flowers and Orchid Festival will be on display for 30 days at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, from 3rd February - 4th March, 2007.

There are over 30,000 tropical plants on display and many more colours. The orchids, anthuriums, maranta & bromeliads create the largest display of tropical colour in the UK and will take you a million miles from the dark and cold winter days.

Beginning series,will be held from Feb. 5-26 and Intermediate series, will be held on Feb. 2-23. Instructor: Stephanie Scott. Gardens at Heather Farm, 1540 Marchbanks Drive, Walnut Creek.

Gail Nampel, a UW-Extension certified master gardener and secretary of the Dodge County Master Gardener Association will describe how to become a master gardener during the Dodge County Master Gardeners first monthly meeting of the year. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 25, at the Administration Building, 127 E. Oak St. in Juneau. There is no cost to attend.

Nampel will discuss the requirements of the master gardener program and will highlight projects completed in the Dodge County area.

New Zealand's native floral and fauna ? as never seen before will be exhibited at the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu next month. Inside Out Kiwi Icons Seen in a New Light is an exhibition of 25 images of iconic Kiwi animals, fish and plants as seen through the lens of high-tech medical imaging equipment. Three Christchurch doctors Professors Justin Roake and Tim Buckenham and surgeon David Lewis have spent the last two years experimenting with the medical scans to create the images that will be exhibited for the first time from 3 to 18 February at the Art Gallery.

The Orchid Forest, a vivid orchid exhibition, will transform the conservatory's tropical rainforest with a rainbow of more than 15,000 bright pink, yellow, orange, lime green and purple blooms. Visitors will stroll along rolling fog into a Spanish-moss cave and through a spectacular array of tropical orchids suspended in trees. The exhibition will include orchids primarily from Hawaii and California including oncidium, dendrobium, cymbidium, epidendrum and phalaenopsis. Opening weekend also coincides with the American Institute of Floral Designers Show, where visitors will have the opportunity to view arrangements created by some of the most noted designers in Central Ohio. The three-day show will feature a floral design demonstration on Jan. 14 from 2-4 p.m. where AIFD members will create arrangements inspired by the conservatory's current exhibitions - Fiori: A Chihuly Garden of Glass and The Orchid Forest.

The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) has announced that the mandatory code of conduct for the wholesale horticulture sector will be introduced on May 14, 2007. Pushed through after months of pressure the issue has lingered for nearly twice as long as the Government?s election promises but now seems close to conclusion...

Spring in San Francisco is more a change in attitude than solar inclinations. With the average temperature hovering around 60 degrees year-round, extremes of hot and cold are rare. As Goldilocks said to the three bears, it's just right hereabouts. Local gardeners take full advantage of the sublime rise of San Francisco springtime and enhance the greenery amongst the city scenery. Here's some fragrant favorites...

Seattlepi.nwsource

There will be classes for The best types of fruits for our area, their growing requirements and how to prune them to enhance your harvest will be discussed.

Flower Events occur at Northwest Gardens, till 25 th Feb...

Annual Camellia Show, with judging, displays and sales: sales 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Jan. 21; entries accepted 7-10 a.m., judging 10 a.m.-1 p.m., show 1-5 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Jan. 21; Harry P. Leu Gardens, 1920 N. Forest Ave., Orlando; show and gardens are free; sponsored by Camellia Society of Central Florida; 407-886-7917...

Times Dispatch

Gordon W. Chappell, a landscape professional, will lead a landscaping program Feb. 12 and 13 at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. Other course topics include the landscape-design process, site design, land forms, plant selection, structures, preservation and container gardening. The Virginia Federation of Garden Clubs sponsors the Landscape Design School Series XXII, a program of four courses offered twice a year. The deadline to register is Jan. 20. For more information or registration form, call Jean Fender at 730-2256...

Oregon Live

Horticulture magazine, the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon, the O.S.U. Extension Service Master Gardeners Program, the W.S.U. Master Gardeners of Clark County and the Willamette Valley Hardy Plant Group, will host "The Great Garden Debate: When Collector Meets Designer Can They Find Common Ground" on Sunday, Jan. 28, at Hoffmann Hall at Portland State University...

Expect to get a bit more stuffed at the Oregon Wine & Food Festival this year. The exhibition of wines, foods and handmade crafts, now in its 25th year, will have more food vendors this edition, organizer Lorne Brown said.

The event this weekend at the Oregon State Fairgrounds is expected to include more than 100 vendors, including nearly 30 wineries. Here are three standouts this year: a feast of wine, spices and flowers with a local twist...

The flower show in Daan Park was all temporary. It was so extensive that I couldn't imagine that some of the exhibits weren't permanent installations in the park, but after November ended, it was all gone, including some of the art pieces that were there before and removed to make room for the flower show...

The Chiang Mai Flower Festival starts on 2nd February 2007 and it is a 2 day festival. The Chiang Mai Flower Festival is similar to other flower festivals hosted around the world. Chiang Mai is famous for having some truly beautiful flowers. Most bloom early in the year from January to February. Colorful flowers like African marigold, globe amaranth, orchids, Ban Chun, chrysanthemum, celosia, and assorted roses like Fa Mui and thin Uang Dok Lek...

The 18th Annual CAIOS Orchid Show, will be hel on January 27-28 2007 at Sea Crest Resort and Conference Center, 350 Quaker Road, N. Falmouth, MA,USA...

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

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.