“Green Currency: Plants in the Economy” is the topic for an exhibition of original contemporary botanical artwork in the Arthur and Janet Ross Gallery at the New York Botanical Garden, 200th Street and Kazimiroff Boulevard, …

“Flora’s Lexicon”, on display now through June 30, 2011, explores the 19th-century European and American phenomenon of The Language of Flowers, the common understanding that plants and blooms were charged with sentiment and meaning, and …

“Spanish Paradise: Gardens of the Alhambra” opens today in the Conservatory of the New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, New York, and will be on view today through August 21, 2011.
Travel to …

The Rose Festival in Portland, Oregon, takes place May 27 through June 12, 2011. This year’s rose is the Sweet Spotlight (pictured, at left).
White roses are truly elegant, yet rarely are they fragrant… until now! …

Wandering through Atlanta anytime soon, Road Trips Gardeners? If your itinerary allows a weekend stop, consider watching one of the Garden Chef Demonstrations at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, 1345 Piedmont Avenue NE, Atlanta, Georgia.
At noon, …

“Art in the Service of Science”, a display of scientific art, continues through June 4, 2011, in the Sterling Morton Library of the Morton Arboretum, 4100 Illinois Route 53, Lisle, Illinois. The exhibit, by …

Like azaleas, Road Trips Gardeners? Drive on over to the New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, New York, and check out the new Azalea Garden.
The second weekend of the grand opening is May …

Here’s something different, Road Trips Gardeners. The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, just outside London, England, are sponsoring “Hard Rain”, a photographic exhibit which will be on display May 14 through September 25, 2011, on …

With its majestic stature and stunning yellow-and-orange blossoms, the tulip poplar has been designated both the signature tree and the 2011 Native Tree of the Year by Adkins Arboretum on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
A two-day workshop …

In the village of Glion, Switzerland, fields of narcissus should be at their best on May 8, 2011.
A festival celebrating this delicately-scented white flower has been celebrated here since 1897 (that’s an historic poster …