Flower Shows & Events Archive - Nov 2007

The Ellerslie International Flower Show is the very best in the country with international links. This prestigious event is such a good fit for our city and will boost Christchurch's Garden City image.

Christchurch is an event city and we look forward to more opportunities to bring the very best festivals and events to our city. This event provides Canterbury and the South Island with an opportunity to showcase our breathtaking natural landscape and our world class tourism offerings...

Gerhard Watzig, a downtown flower shop owner, has filed to run for mayor of Portland next year.

Portland needs new ways of thinking, Watzig said Monday. He's focused on issues from improving city infrastructure to cutting the cost of doing business, he said.

Born in Germany, Watzig moved with his parents to a farm in Washington in the 1950s and to Portland in 1956. He graduated from David Douglas High School and got a sociology degree from Oregon State, then held a series of jobs, including deputy sheriff in Multnomah County and sales and marketing positions, he said...

EXPERIENCE the pleasure of walking through 14,000 square metres of fragrant and luscious floral and herbal gardens when the Kingdom's biggest lifestyle and garden show, the Riffa Views Bahrain International Garden Show (RVBIGS), transforms the Bahrain International Exhibition & Convention Centre (BIEC) into an indoor paradise for garden and horticulture enthusiasts for three days in spring commencing February 22.

Scented Gardens, the theme for RVBIGS 2008, will feature a wide variety of aromatic plants that are grown in climates similar to Bahrain as well as spectacular landscapes by notable designers from the industry...

AL Hawaj Group will participate at the Riffa Views Bahrain International Garden Show 2008 (RVBIGS 2008) for the fourth consecutive year.

RVBIGS 2008 will be held from February 22 to 24 at the Bahrain International Exhibition and Convention Centre (BIEC).

The event is organised by the Bahrain Exhibition and Convention Authority (BECA) under the patronage of His Majesty King Hamad and support of his wife and chairwoman of the Supreme Council for Women, Her Highness Shaikha Sabeeka bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa...

In just under a week, the Chelsea Flower Show will be unveiled to a reverent gardening public and the world?s television cameras. There will be actresses with simpering expressions being photographed beside roses or sweet peas named after them. Chelsea Pensioners will be posed like scarlet tulips in their red uniforms alongside floral displays...

The American Nursery and Landscape Association (ANLA) will join OFA, an Association of Floriculture Professionals for their annual Short Course, U.S. floriculture?s premier educational and trade show event, held here next July...

The parents association at St. Mary's School in Barndarrig will hold a Christmas Floral Evening on Wednesday December 12.This proved a very popular event last year and it sold out quickly with only limited spaces available.

The parents association at St. Mary's School in Barndarrig will hold a Christmas Floral Evening on Wednesday December 12.

Residents who participate in the Rockland Master Gardener program said the experience had allowed them to meet new friends, learn more about gardening and serve the community.

The program is offered by the Cornell University Cooperative Extension of Rockland and includes training on everything from plant botany to addressing wildlife nuisances.

It is apparently so thorough that in just 10 weeks, you can go from all-thumbs to green thumbs...

While most other flower growers in Da Lat are busy multiplying foreign flower breeds, Tran Pham Anh Tuan is bent on creating new ones.

So when he first embarked on his journey to create new plant breeds for Da Lat seven years ago, friends and colleagues were skeptical andtried to persuade him to follow the conventional road multiplying foreign plants using asexual reproduction methods.

The most interesting feature, however, is that the new petunia breed can yield flowers for nine months yearly, which is three months longer than the imported breed and the flowers can last for an entire week. At present, Tuan is preparing thousands of petunia pots to showcase at the Da Lat Flower Festival 2007 to be held next month...

The Badger/Lake Geneva FFA floriculture team, including three University of Wisconsin-Platteville students, recently received a silver rating at the national FFA floriculture contest. The contest was held in conjunction with the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis, Ind.

The Kendrick FFA Chapter is having a scholarship breakfast and poinsettia sale at the Senior Citizen Center in Kendrick December 8 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The menu will consist of pancakes, French toast, sausage, eggs, applesauce, juice, coffee and hot chocolate. The cost for the breakfast is $5 for an adult and $3 for kids 12 and under.

EASTERN entrants were among the big winners at the Ellerslie Flower Show last week.

The Earth Sharing Garden created by Howick based landscape designer Lynn Cairney of Fusion Landscape Design and Julie Moore from Plantet Earth was named People?s Choice.

The Earth Sharing Garden also won a gold medal and a supreme award for national lighting.

Manukau City Council?s performance garden won a gold award at the show.

The council says the garden gave show visitors a taste of the Aotearoa that colonial settlers first experienced and featured exciting performers from a range of Manukau cultures. It won the gold award in the retail garden category.

Judges described the garden as ?really innovative. It captures the essence of this part of the world.

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...

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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...

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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.