Sometimes the only way a Road Trips Gardener can get through winter is by visiting a home and garden show. Scheduled mostly at the end of winter, these merchandising extravaganzas tempt us away from the …

“Pardon our dust” notes the Garfield Park Conservatory, 300 North Central Park, Chicago, Illinois (map). They’re finishing up renovations of the damaged Show House, but — the show must go on.
The Holiday Flower Show, …

It’s the kind of show that makes your Road Trips Gardener wish she were a wholesaler.
More than 500 exhibiting companies are expected at the Tropical Plant Industry Exhibition set for January 23 through 25, 2013, …

Get a jump on spring, Road Trips Gardeners, by journeying to the Tidewater for the Virginia Flower & Garden Expo.
Produced by the Virginia Horticultural Foundation, it’s set for January 25 to 27, 2013, in the …

Holiday revelers can take time out to stop and smell the poinsettias at Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens, One Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (map).
Well, maybe not — since poinsettias don’t exude perfume (the “blooms” are …

There’s something about the holidays that inspires botanists to add miniature trains to their gardens.
Here are a few of the places to see this seasonal collaboration:
**More New York City landmarks and trains than ever before …

Woodcut relief prints by Bryan Nash Gill offer a close look at the life of 25 trees next year in an exhibit at the Joutras Gallery of the Regenstein Center, Chicago Botanic Garden. 1000 Lake …

An exhibition of botanical printing, “Artful Collaborations on Paper and Cloth by Leonore Alaniz” continues now through February 10, 2013. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily in the Church Exhibition Gallery of the …

Escape winter’s chill by visiting an Orchid Extravaganza at Longwood Gardens, 1001 Longwood Road, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania (map).
From January 19 through March 24, 2013, Road Trips Gardeners can see thousands of colorful orchids draped on …