Flower Shows & Events Archive - Jan 2009

Home and Garden Show

Gracing the deck of a 32-foot-long ship floating in a huge water feature, buccaneers and cannons greet visitors to the 50th Colorado Garden and Home Show, Feb.7-15 at the Colorado Convention Center.

Floral Show

The National Association of UNESCO Clubs in Bangladesh will hold a day-long "UNESCO Club Flower Show Competition-2009" on Feb.5 at BANBEIS Bhaban at Palassy-Nilkhet in the city.

Boggestow Garden Club of Sherborn

Anyone for whom raising roses is a passion or an unfulfilled dream will be interested in a presentation by Armand J. Lapierre, sponsored by the Boggestow Garden Club of Sherborn, on Tuesday.

Garden Show at Bell Tower Shops

The Perwinkle Garden Club will hold the 60th Garden Show at Bell Tower Shops on Feb.5 and 6. The Perwinkle Garden Club was Mrs. Thomas Edison's garden club and, trying to keep with her traditions, the club tries to live up to the wonderful green thumb Mimi was known to have.

Seed and Suet Season

Earth, Wind and Flowers continues the seasons theme on Feb. 2,when "Seed and Suet Season" is observed at a workshop at Dianna Zaebst's home.

Tacoma Garden show

The Tacoma Home & Garden Show has assembled a blue-ribbon group of experts to share tips on how to garden environmentally while saving money.The show runs through Sunday at the Tacoma Dome.

Cobb Galleria Centre

Boasting a new location, new leader and new outlook, this year's Southeastern Flower Show is reinventing the rose and camellia-centric expo of years past.The 22nd edition of the show, which opens today and continues through Sunday at the Cobb Galleria Centre.

Donzell's Flower & Garden Center

Donzell's Flower & Garden Center is offering Saturday gardening seminars designed to get you growing once spring arrives.

South eastern flower show

Get ready for the first major garden event of 2009! Yes,the Southeastern Flower Show is coming to town this week and it sounds great.The event is the prime fundraiser for the new Southeastern Horticultural Society and is on the theme 'Passion - How do you bloom?'.

Home & Garden show to offer hundreds of Home owners

The 19th annual "Maine Home, Remodeling & Garden Show" will take place Feb 7-8 this year at the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland.This year's event will feature over 170 diverse vendors,displays and artisans,over a dozen live demonstrations by well-known Maine chefs and confectioners,and several home seminars with a focus on Green and money-saving strategies.

Inter-club rivalry adds spice to garden show

Nelson's Frank Grant has been growing flowers and veges for 60 years. Not bad for a bloke who's 65.Next weekend,there'll be extra pressure on him to produce the goods.

Plant city flower show

The Plant City Garden Club is bringing a touch of New Orleans to its annual flower show.Mardi Gras will be the theme of the Feb.5 event at Walden Lake Golf and Country Club,2001 Clubhouse Drive.There's no admission charge to the 5 to 8 p.m. show.

Lalbagh's Flower show attracts visitors

Bangalore's famous garden Lalbagh is packed with visitors these days, all jostling for a walk through a flower show on the theme of world peace.

Ginger Flower show

Ginger Flower and Food Festival which starts today, and runs through January 22 to 25 in Yandina.The display features 200 beehive ginger flowers and 80 fire-engine red crab claw heliconias and is a fitting signature piece for the largest subtropical festival in Australia.

Hothouse shows

It may be cold and bleak outside,but it's warm and fragrant in the Como Park Conservatory,which is hosting two winter flower events this month.

Buds N'Blooms 2009

The Agri-Horticultural Society of Western India has organised 'Buds N'Blooms 2009,' an annual flower show and garden festival,at Empress Botanical Garden between January 23 and 25 between 9 am and 8 pm.

Gardening and horticulture event in the southeast

If you are a landscaper or just love to garden you will not want to miss the premier gardening and horticulture event in the southeast.The 2009 Southeastern Flower Show will take place at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta, Georgia from January 28 to February 1, 2009.

City to flaunt flowers this weekend

More than 2,500 varieties of flowers will be displayed at the International Flower Show,to be held at Raj Bhavan from January 24-26.Seminars and plant bazaars,complete with expert views and impromptu education sessions,will form part of the show.Entry will be open to all,according to organisers.

Home and Garden Show

For the third year Merrell Center in Katy will be the site for the 2009 Katy Home and Garden Show on Jan. 24-25.

More than 300 exhibitors will be on hand covering both levels of the center as well as the adjacent Robinson Pavilion. They will feature products and services for your home and lifestyle.

YumaSun

For anyone whose New Year's resolution was to get to that miracle makeover then the 16th annual Yuma Home & Garden Show is a great opportunity to turn that house into a dream home.

Kollam Flower Show

Labour Minister P.K. Gurudasan inaugurated the ten-day Kollam Flower Show 2009 at the Asramam Children's Park complex on Friday evening.Mr. Gurudasan said that under a project submitted to the Union government, an allocation of Rs.2.86 crore had been made for the renovation of the children's park.

latimes

Horticulturist Lili Singer leads a class on California flora. Learn about planting techniques, irrigation, pruning, maintenance and where to see and buy native plants.

regionaltimes

Karachi Naib Nazim Nasreen Jalil Thursday inaugurated a two-day flower exhibition organized by Jamshed Town administration. Addressing an inaugural ceremony, Nasreen Jalil appreciated Nazim Jamshed Town Javed Ahmed and his team for organizing the exhibition.

daijiworld

The Indian Republic Day horticultural flower show will be inaugurated on Saturday January 17 at 3 pm at the Lalbagh Glass House in the city by Dileep Rao, administrator, Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike. B P Kaniram, secretary, horticultural department, government of Karnataka, will be the chief guest under the chairmanship of Dr G K Vasanth Kumar.

sun-sentine

Orchid lovers know they can't miss the Fort Lauderdale Is your Fort Lauderdale restaurant clean? - Click Here. Orchid Society's annual show, which the American Orchid Society describes as "the largest in the United States."

sun-sentine

Each spring the South is in bloom with garden fests that invite all to stop and smell the flowers. Here are some noteworthy garden festivals this season

highlandnews

?Creative Floral Designs? will be the Program presented by renown floral designer and NGC Life Flower Show Judge Sonja Longley at the RHIS Floral Design Group meeting on Thursday, Jan. 22 at 10 a.m. in the lower level of the Lodge at Plymouth Village, 945 Salem Dr., Redlands.

chattanoogan

Arrangements can be picked up at the First Things First offices at the corner of Oak and Lindsay Streets, Hamilton County, on Friday, Feb. 13, between noon and 4 p.m.

earthtimes

The world's largest flower garden, the Keukenhof in The Netherlands, is marking the 60th anniversary of its birth with a US theme. The festivities include a mosaic of more than 25,000 flowers in the shape of the Statue of Liberty, according to the Dutch tourist office in Cologne.

latimes

Consultant Bob Galbreath discusses smart irrigation controllers in a workshop sponsored by the Theodore Payne Foundation for Wildflowers and Native Plants. Beginning in 2010, only weather-based irrigation controllers, or WBIC, will be sold in California.

gasparillagazette

The featured speaker at the Boca Grande Garden Club,Florida meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 14, will be Joe Lamp?l, a master gardener, certified landscape professional, author, syndicated columnist, national television host and radio personality.

wftv

An elaborate Cinderellabration topiary and an environmentally friendly Green Garden will bring fresh springtime flair to the 16th annual Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival, March 18th through May 31st, 2009.

examiner

Open to the Public , Tuesday through Sunday from 9:00Am to 5:00PM, the Miami Beach Botanical Garden promises a year of cultural arts & environmental education, and Gawd knows we could use a bit of education on this matter before we completely screw up our planet.

mauiweekly

The second annual Maui County Agricultural Festival will take place Saturday, March 14, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., on the lu?au grounds of Maui Tropical Plantation in Waikapu. Admission is free.

news-leader

The Missouri Botanical Garden's "Henry's Garden" annual Orchid Show, this year planned for Jan. 31 through March 15. It showcases one of the nation's largest and finest collections of orchids featuring more than 800 varieties and 8,100 plants.

timesofindia

After the huge success of "Chandigarh Carnival" and "Chrysanthemum Show," the UT administration and municipal corporation are all set to organise "Rose Festival-2009" in February.

APP

The Ocean County Historical Society invites you to celebrate spring early by joining us for a trip to the Philadelphia Flower Show.

Dispatch Politics

Some Clintonville businesses and residents want to save the Columbus Rose Festival and are talking about ways to make sure it blooms again in 2009.

news

The five-day fresh flower festival, namely Flower Street Festival Hanoi 2009, will take place at Hoan Kiem Lake in central Hanoi from New Year

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.