Your Road Trips Gardener is wondering how many cherry blossom festivals will still have cherry blossoms on the trees by the time the scheduled dates roll around!
Oh, well: it’s spring and we can celebrate the …

It doesn’t matter whether you’re in New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, Minneapolis or San Francisco between March 25 and April 7, 2012, Road Trips Gardeners. You can visit a flower show at Macy’s in each …

Yeah, it’s the depth of winter, but we like to remember warm weather flowers, don’t we Road Trips Gardeners? Spring will arrive…eventually.
These magnificent snapdragons were snapped by our photographer during an early fall visit to …

The 27th annual San Francisco Flower & Garden Show will be held March 21 through 25, 2012, in the San Mateo Event Center, 1346 Saratoga Drive, San Mateo, California (map)
This year’s theme is “Gardens for …

Each year, thousands of blooming daffodils in sunny shades of yellow and orange will welcome spring to tiny city of Point Arena in Mendocino County, California.
Highlight is the annual Flower Power Festival and Daffodil Explosion …

Wandering the West Coast this spring, Road Trips Gardeners. If you’re a fan of boat orchids, consider a stop between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. April 21, 2012, at the annual Gold Coast Cymbidium Growers …

According to Wikipedia, Fuchsia is a genus of flowering plants that consists mostly of shrubs or small trees.
The first, Fuchsia triphylla, was discovered on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (present day Dominican Republic and …

The 35th Annual Cymbidium Society of America Congress takes place March 17, 2012, in Adams Elementary School Auditorium, 2701 Las Positas Road, Santa Barbara, California.
It’s held concurrently with the 67th Santa Barbara International …

Today’s flower is the bright red bloom of the Lobivia arachnacantha v. densiseta, a trichocereae cactus thought to originate in Bolivia. (It’s also known as Echinopsis arachnacanthus.)
Our intrepid photographer caught it blossoming in the desert …

The Orchid Show and Sale sponsored by the Orchid Society of California takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. November 5 and 6, 2011.
The annual event will be held at Lakeside Garden Center, 666 …