Article Archive for February 2014
Headed south? The 21th annual Daffodil Festival is March 7 and 8, 2014, in Camden, Arkansas (map)
Begin your adventure in the Great Hall of the First United Methodist Church, 121 Harrison Avenue SW, Camden, Arkansas …
A flower vendor in Granada, Spain, had a small selection of bedding plants for sale during the first week of April last year.
Yes, Road Trips Gardeners, spring will arrive…later rather than sooner this year!
(Photo ©2013 …
The annual Spring Flower Showsponsored by the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society will be held March 29 and 30, 2014, in the Fletcher Building of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, Scotland. Hours both …
The Boston Flower & Garden Show will return to the Seaport World Trade Center, 200 Seaport Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts, March 12 through 16, 2014, with the theme “Romance in the Garden”.
Set to the backdrop …
Road Trips Gardeners check off trees the way birders check off species. Here’s one for your life list: the Big Oak in Thomasville, Georgia.
It started as an acorn about 1685, but these days it has …
Fresh flowers are available at the Fifth Street Farmers’ Market in downtown Los Angeles, California, which also includes fruits, vegetables and tasty treats.
This selection of blooms was available on a Sunday in mid-January.
The winter version …
The history of photography is closely bound up with the study of botany; many of the early pioneers of photography such as William Henry Fox Talbot and Anna Atkins used botanical subjects for their photographs …
“Bank to Bend” is the topic for a lecture by Matt Bishop at Winterthur Museum, Garden, 5105 Kennett Pike, Wilmington, Delaware.
The presentation by the author of Snowdrops: A Monograph of Cultivated Galanthus begins at 11 …
Gonna be anywhere near eastern Kentucky in a couple of weeks, Road Trips Gardeners? You can catch a screening of the Disney nature movie, “Wings of Life”, at the Central Public Library Farish Theatre of …
The national flower of Malaysia is the Bunga Raya (Chinese Hibiscus, Hibiscus rosa-sinensis).
This bright red example blossoms forth on one of the plantings around Malaysia’s National Monument in Kuala Lumpur.
The monument (below, right), a sculpture …