These pale pink geranium blossoms were snapped in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, last February.
Your Road Trips Gardener had no idea that there was controversy over this flower until she started researching it for this post.
It …

Your Road Trips Gardener doesn’t often share videos, but these two are glorious!
Both are by Vladimir Vorobyov of Vorobyov Production in Astana City, Kazakhstan.
The image (at left is from The Beauty of Flowers.
An earlier video …

Although perhaps more popular as a potted plant than an outdoor ornamental in North America, cyclamen are valued for their brilliantly colored petals as well as their variably patterned leaves.
These cyclamen in scarlet, deep magenta …

OK, Road Trips Gardeners, you’ve probably noticed that there are no flowers on this gigantic prickly pear cactus.
Wasn’t the season for blooms, they told our intrepid photographer.
No matter. It’ll spring forth in, well spring! This …

Your Road Trips Gardener confesses that she doesn’t know what these flowers are called.
Can anyone identify these brilliant pink blooms? They were resplendent on a warm September afternoon with eight petals surrounding a yellow center.
The …

OK, Road Trips Gardeners, you’ve been to every North American garden tour and are ready for new horizons.
One place to check out: Gardening Tours. This company, based in Canada, leads tours for gardeners world-wide.
Upcoming jaunts …

“Flowers, Gardens and Parks of Siberia” is the theme for an international exhibition of flowers, landscape design and garden art set for August 10 through 13, 2011, in the International Exhibition Center in Novosibirsk, Russia.
Exhibitors …

If you’ll be wandering India during the last week of February, Road Trips Gardeners swing by Chandigargh for the annual Festival of Gardens in Leisure Valley (sector 10).
The three-day extravaganza was originally called the …

A Chrysanthemum Show will be held in the Terraced Garden (Sector 33) of Chandigarh, India, in December. If you’re headed to southwest Asia, Road Trips Gardeners, watch for the announcement of the exact dates.

The Utopia Orchid Park at Kibbutz Bahan in the Emek Hefer region north of Tel Aviv, Israel, includes an indoor orchid garden with more than 20,000 orchids of different species from around the …