Articles in Midwestern USA

Garden shows are one way to hurry springtime. The Chicago Flower and Garden Show, set for March 15 through 23, 2014, on Navy Pier, 600 East Grand Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, offers all sorts of antidotes …

A new variety of poinsettia — Christmas Beauty Nostalgia (pictured at left with its pink and green bracts) — is spotlighted during the Holiday Flower Show at Como Park Zoo & Conservatory 1225 Estabrook Drive, …

Look for a variety of festive poinsettias, showy amaryllis and aromatic paperwhite narcissus arranged in garden scenes plus evergreens glowing with thousands of LED lights, and a dinosaur-themed Garden Railroad at the Winter Flower Show …

It’s inevitable: some time during December you’ll have the urge to check out a holiday flower show.
Fortunately, Road Trips Gardeners, there are shows in progress all across the country.
This is a great time not only …

Special to Road Trips for Gardeneers
By Fiskars
Every year community gardens continue to sprout up across North America. To help groups make their community garden plans a reality, Fiskars is pleased to open its 2014 …

It’s not too late to catch a glimpse of autumn’s favorite flowers, Road Trips Gardeners — if you’re already near Minneapolis-Saint Paul, that is.
The Fall Flower Show at Como Park Zoo & Conservatory, 1225 Estabrook …

More than 5,600 poinsettia plants — multi-hued, deep red, sparkling white and speckled — are grown in Lauritzen Gardens’ greenhouses starting as early as July for the annual holiday show in Lauritzen Gardens, 100 Bancroft …

The Holiday Poinsettia Show kicks off Friday (November 22, 2013) in the Luthy Botanical Garden, 2520 North Prospect, Peoria, Illinois. It’s open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily through December 31, 2013.
The holiday …

The Fall Chrysanthemum Show continues at the Lauritzen Gardens – Omaha’s Botanical Center, 100 Bancroft Street, Omaha, Nebraska, through November 24, 2013. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
The visitor and education center’s indoor …

Here’s an exhibit of horticultural paintings such as you’ve never seen, Road Trips Gardeners.
Peggy A. Guest‘s whimsical work is described as “a kind of horticultural hysteria one whisker off center”.
It’s on display from 9 a.m. …