Articles tagged with: Belgium
By Thomas Steinmetz
Special to Road Trips for Gardeners
The Titan Arum, commonly known as corpse flower, is the world’s largest flower that has a complicated arrangement of branches. It can easily be distinguished among other …
Walks through wildflower meadows, demonstrations on growing roses from seed, a discussion of 364 different tomatoes and an explanation of compost ‘tea’ are some of the features of the Festival of Rare Plants, Roses & …
You’ll need to hurry, Road Trips Gardeners: Floralia, a flower exhibition ends May 6, 2012, at the castle of Groot-Bijgaarden, Isador Van Beverenstraat 5, Groot-Bijgaarden (Brussels), Belgium.
The park, which is about 14 hectares, incorporates nearly …
It’s time to plan that trip to Belgium, Road Trips Gardeners. The Royal Greenhouses will be open to the public from April 15, 2012, through May 8, 2012.
This is your only chance this year to …
When spring arrives, the central square in Brussels, Belgium, is filled with flower vendors.
Even though, as tourists, we can’t carry home armloads of potted geraniums or masses of petunias for window boxes, we can buy …
Check your travel calendars quickly, Road Trips Gardeners. The Belgian Royal Greenhouses are open to the public only from April 15 to May 8, 2011, this year.
Designed by Alphonse Balat in 1873 for King …
Tucked into the town of Durbuy, Belgium, is “the greatest topiary park in the smallest town”. Parc des Topiaries is a unique collection of clipped boxwood is spread over 10,000 square meters in the Ourthe …
Every year, on the second weekend of June, the gardens of the Castle of Hex in Belgium are open to the public for a festival of rare plants, roses and kitchen gardens.
This year’s festival will …
The Royal Greenhouses in Laeken, Belgium (near Brussels), are open to the public for just three weeks. If you want to wander the six acres of neoclassical rotundas, domes and galleries, you need to get …
It’s held only once every five years, so Road Trips Gardeners are anxiously booking their tickets to Belgium for Floralies 2010. The 34th edition of the show, to be held April 17-25, 2010, is organized …
