2023’s Best U. S. Cities for Local Flowers
May 11, 2023 – 10:29 pm | Comments Off on 2023’s Best U. S. Cities for Local Flowers

Looking at five floral categories in the 200 largest U.S. cities, Lawn Love came up with these two lists.
They checked out access to flower shops and specialty-cut flower vendors, consumer ratings, and the number of …

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Floralia Brussels
May 3, 2012 – 12:13 am | Comments Off on Floralia Brussels
Floralia Brussels

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 …

Albany Tulip Festival
April 27, 2012 – 12:49 am | Comments Off on Albany Tulip Festival
Albany Tulip Festival

New York State’s capital city hopes to have 212,000 tulips in bloom during its 64th annual Tulip Festival, set for May 12 and 13, 2012, in Albany’s Washington Park.
In 1948, Erastus Corning II, the mayor …

Tulips along Lake Geneva
April 26, 2012 – 12:01 am | Comments Off on Tulips along Lake Geneva
Tulips along Lake Geneva

Every year, a Tulip Testival in Morges, Switzerland, celebrates the return of spring.
A hundred thousand tulips form brightly colored banks in the Parc de l’Indépendance, and Floralies, which presents 400 iris varieties, is held …

Lilacs at Lilacia Park
April 25, 2012 – 12:20 am | Comments Off on Lilacs at Lilacia Park
Lilacs at Lilacia Park

You can smell the festival even before you can see the blooms. It’s almost Lilac Time in Lilacia Park, 227 West Parkside Avenue, Lombard, Illinois (map).
This year’s dates are May 5 through 20, 2012, and …

Spring Bulb Show
April 16, 2012 – 12:30 am | Comments Off on Spring Bulb Show
Spring Bulb Show

If you’re traveling with potted spring bulbs, Road Trips Gardeners, bring ’em along to the spring bulb show and competition set for April 21 and 22, 2012, at Red Butte Gardens at the University of …

Lilacs Mean Spring is Here
April 13, 2012 – 7:13 pm | Comments Off on Lilacs Mean Spring is Here
Lilacs Mean Spring is Here

Lilac season arrived a bit ahead of schedule in North America. In your Road Trips Gardener‘s back yard, the peak blooms are fading to green.
The Hulda Klager Lilac Festival takes place April 21 through May …

Wellfield Botanic Gardens
April 4, 2012 – 12:26 am | Comments Off on Wellfield Botanic Gardens
Wellfield Botanic Gardens

By Jackie Hughes
Elkhart County Convention & Visitors Bureau
A small non-profit organization in Elkhart, Indiana has transformed the city’s well field, a water and hydraulic energy source since the mid-1800s, into a public, art-filled botanic …

Royal Greenhouses in Belgium
April 2, 2012 – 12:41 am | Comments Off on Royal Greenhouses in Belgium
Royal Greenhouses in Belgium

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 …

Chelsea Flower Show
March 30, 2012 – 12:46 am | Comments Off on Chelsea Flower Show
Chelsea Flower Show

This is the big one, Road Trips Gardeners, and it’s never to early to make plans to head to London for the Chelsea Flower Show.
This year, the show is May 22 through 26, 2012, at …

Quilt Gardens
March 26, 2012 – 12:36 am | Comments Off on Quilt Gardens
Quilt Gardens

OK, Road Trips Gardeners, get those cars ready to roll.
The Quilt Gardens along the Heritage Trail in northern Indiana will feature 19 gardens — each in a quilt design — this year — its fifth. …