Flower Shows & Events Archive - Dec 2006

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...

Longwood Gardens

Learn the technique of connecting two containers to make one dazzling design. Using greens and flowers you will create two bridged designs, one suitable for a long table and one for a round or accent table...

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Join the Royal Botanics for second Green Christmas Festival! Every weekend you can visit Santa in his magical grotto, make beautiful cards and decorations for Christmas, and enjoy our fascinating winter exhibition, Infin8. Green Christmas continues every weekend until Sunday 17 December...

California Welcome Center

Merced's Home & Garden Show is a yearly event that brings in thousands of nterested home owners and community vendors together under one roof will be on Display 6th December 2006...

Chicago Botanic

The Chicago Botanic Garden will be transformed into a winter wonderland featuring twinkling lights and beautiful holiday horticulture displays. Outdoors, thousands of white lights will beckon families to a dramatically lit Esplanade and the Regenstein Center...

Mugford Flower Shoppee

Make your own floral doorswag for the holiday season!! A great alternative to the traditional holiday wreath. Design a spray of various fragrant greens, berries, cones and festive ribbons to greet your holiday visitors.

Post Gazette

Winter Flower Show hosted by Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens at Schenley Park, Oakland, features evergreens, poinsettias and colorful seasonal plantings, from November to 24 - January 7...

Ho Spice

Annual Festival of Trees is Nov. 25 through Dec. 3 at the Wilmington Hilton Riverside, 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. M-F and 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Sat. and Sun. Donna Moscato has graciously agreed to serve as Festival chair. This year's theme is “Let Heaven and Nature Sing.” Special events at the Festival of Trees include the Jingle Bell Jam holiday party from 8 p.m. to midnight Nov. 25; Jazz Night with David Pray Trio and Benny Hill & Friends at 7 p.m. Nov. 26...

Longwood Gardens

Celebrate the season with a night-blooming garden of 420,000 lights?including daffodils, crocuses, lilacs and wisteria all fashioned from lights. Luminescent blue lights outline the five-acre Main Fountain Garden, a towering blue spruce tree is aglow with frosty ornaments, and huge starry snowflakes sparkle in distant trees. And, don't forget that Longwood offers special events year-round throughout the Gardens!

Guide to Malaysia

Malaysia flora festival is a two-week long grand floral parade themed “Colors of Harmony” to be held at Putrajaya from 27 January 2007...

Garden Central

Bring your own creative edge to fashion a holiday wreath with greens from the Tudor Place garden. Cedar boughs, magnolia leaves, berry-laden holly, pinecones, and boxwood are provided. All wreaths are medium-sized and last well past the average nursery wreath. All materials are provided...

Singapore Garden Festival

Unique to the Festival is the showcasing of the creations of top award-winning landscape and garden designers, florists and horticulturists from the Chealsea Flower Show, Philadelphia Flower Show, Floriade (Holland), Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show, Laman (Malaysia) and many more...

Events Eye

Winter Bouquet 2006 is a competition for florists at Lithuanian Exhibition Centre, Laisves Ave.5, LT- 2600 Vilnius, Lithuania for three days between 24th and 26th November, 2006...

National Vegetable Society

This Late Autumn Show will be on display on 25th November, 2006 at Paxton Horticultural Centre, 186 Kirkstall Lane, Leeds, LS5 2AB, West Yorkshire...

National Garden Month

Certain potted plants such as poinsettia, amaryllis and the Christmas Cactus have long been associated with the winter holidays, but many people who receive these plants as gifts, have little luck making them last past the holidays. Getting these plants to bloom the following season or even maintain there festive colors is also no easy chore. Marianne Whitehead will offers tips on how to keep your holiday plant healthy and festive...

Akerne Orchids

Brussels International Orchid Show is being organised in Brussels, Belgium between 17th and 19th November, 2006...

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...

LA Canada Online

A guided, pre-holiday walking tour of the Los Angeles Flower District is being offered Saturday, Dec. 2, by Descanso Gardens. The tour will begin at 7 a.m. at the L.A. Flower District in downtown Los Angeles...

Ellerslie Flower Show

The Ellerslie International Flower Show promises to be an extravaganza of colour, design and entertainment for five days between 5th and 19th November, 2006...

Charter.net

You will create a gorgeous arrangement to coordinate perfectly for the season on 6th November, 2006. Workshop Fee: $50.00

SFE

This florists conference will take place at Birmingham?s International Convention Centre (ICC) on 21st and 22nd January, 2007...

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.