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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A Wildlife Garden . . . of LEGOs
July 28, 2014 – 8:57 am | Comments Off on A Wildlife Garden . . . of LEGOs
A Wildlife Garden . . . of LEGOs

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, …

Summer Flower Show
July 23, 2014 – 8:25 am | Comments Off on Summer Flower Show
Summer Flower Show

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 …

Weird, Wild and Wonderful
July 16, 2014 – 8:00 am | Comments Off on Weird, Wild and Wonderful
Weird, Wild and Wonderful

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 …

Fluttering Flowers
June 30, 2014 – 10:50 am | 2 Comments
Fluttering Flowers

Butterflies and flowers naturally go together, the latter tethered to the earth, and the former free to flit, bringing both color and motion to a garden.
Many conservatories host butterfly exhibits. Some are seasonal, others are …

Florilegium Exhibition
June 30, 2014 – 8:39 am | 4 Comments
Florilegium Exhibition

The Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden Florilegium Exhibition opens with a reception from 6:30 to 8 p.m. August 14, 2014, in the Doty Board Room of the Minneapolis Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
What’s a …

Chihuly Arrives in Denver
June 27, 2014 – 8:48 am | 2 Comments
Chihuly Arrives in Denver

Before he’s done, glass artist Dale Chihuly will have had installations in every major botanical garden from coast to coast (your Road Trips Gardener first saw his work in Chicago’s Garfield Park Conservatory).
Now it’s Colorado’s …

Groundbreakers: Great American Gardens
June 25, 2014 – 8:49 am | Comments Off on Groundbreakers: Great American Gardens
Groundbreakers: Great American Gardens

This summer, check out some great American gardens of the early 20th Century and the women who designed them during a garden-wide exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, New York …

An Adventure in the Alps
May 30, 2014 – 8:18 am | Comments Off on An Adventure in the Alps
An Adventure in the Alps

Are you traveling to Switzerland with children this summer, Road Trips Gardeners? Here’s something new to add to your agenda.
Imagine you’re the size of an ant and live in a wonderfully lush alpine meadow. That’s …

Santa Fe Botanical Garden
March 17, 2014 – 8:55 am | Comments Off on Santa Fe Botanical Garden
Santa Fe Botanical Garden

Spring is Santa Fe’s “undiscovered season”, Road Trips Gardeners, so it’s an ideal time to visit before the summer rush.
At the Santa Fe Botanical Garden, 715 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, New Mexico, visitors find various …

Orchid Paintings by Florence Woolward
March 10, 2014 – 8:09 am | Comments Off on Orchid Paintings by Florence Woolward
Orchid Paintings by Florence Woolward

“Thesaurus Woolwardiae: Orchid Paintings by Florence Woolward” opens April 11, 2014, in the Church Exhibition Gallery of Lyman Plant House at the Botanic Garden of Smith College, 16 College Lane, Northhampton, Massachusetts.
British botanical illustrator and …