Articles tagged with: August 2014
Special to Road Trips for Gardeners
This summer, immerse yourself in nature’s healing sanctuary, ‘Plantasia’, at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, and experience the stimulating, transformative power of plants: from barefoot walking trails and …
Qingdao, a city on China’s east coast, is the host for 2014 International Horticultural Expo. The exhibit, open now, runs through October 25, 2014.
It features a 23,000-square-meter botanical gardens, which uses low-carbon climate-control systems to …
The ninth annual Tomato Tasting takes place August 30, 2014, at Heritage Farm, 3094 North Winn Road, Decorah, Iowa.
It’s sponsored by the Seed Savers Exchange. You can read about the 2013 event online.
Sample dozens of …
“Following in the Bartrams’ Footsteps” is a traveling exhibition sponsored by the American Society of Botanical Artists.
It’ll be on display at the North Carolina Botanical Garden at the he University of North Carolina at …
“From the Mountains to the Sea: Plants, Trees, and Shrubs of New England”, a juried exhibit of native New England plant portraits by members of the New England Society of Botanical Artists, will be on …
How about this, Road Trips Gardeners: a wildlife garden built entirely of LEGOs.
You’ll have to take a jaunt across the pond to see it, though. It’s a project of the LEGOLAND Windsor Resort, Winkfield Road, …
Road Trips Gardeners driving through Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this summer should schedule a stop at the Summer Flower Show in the Phipps Conservatory, One Schenley Park — especially if they have children in the car.
That’s because …
It’s not often that an artist comes up with a new way of seeomg. Robert Bueltman has done just that.
Without using either camera or lens, Buelteman’s technique — which he has dubbed photograms — has …
Driving in eastern Iowa in mid-August, Road Trips Gardeners? Consider a detour to take part in the Community Field Day from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. August 16, 2014, sponsored by Seed Savers Exchange.
You’ll …
In homage to the beauty of the botanical world’s most bizarre flora, the New York Botanical Garden invited members of the American Society of Botanical Artists to participate in a study of the eccentric, creating …
