Yellow Walpapper: Flower Shows

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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Annual wilmington garden show 2010

Annual wilmington garden show 2010

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Tatton Park Flower Show 2011

Tatton Park Flower Show 2011

Fresh, vibrant and colorful, the Tatton Park Flower Show 2011 is an ideal choice to take into account whenever you’re looking to enjoy a relaxing day in Knutsford, Cheshire. The event is perfectly made for people who are in love with gardening and who want to make their techniques public. The family celebration brings to the spotlight amazing ideas and tips regarding the best ways to make an appealing and healthy garden.

Whether you’re interested in an edible or just an ornamental garden, the main concept is to make it natural. These days, chemical influences to make a gardens seem big and voluptuous are everywhere. However, the Tatton Park Flower Show 2011 is all about staying organic and as natural as possible. There can be nothing more refreshing than growing the freshest and healthiest fruits and vegetables.
A flower show is about design and landscaping as well. Apart from being natural a garden needs to be appealing and look stunning. The people attending the 2011 show will also need to come up with genuine ideas of growing their pants, as well as the purpose of such an activity. In most situations, people would say that gardening is the best therapy for stress and depression. When you see that your hard work starts blooming and that the lively colors begin to emerge, you immediately feel that everything was well worth the effort.
Get ready for the summer and take your entire family to the remarkable Tatton Park Flower Show 2011 in Cheshire. Prepare yourself to be mesmerized by the delicate flowers and esteems the richest edible gardens at the exhibitions. After all, the flower show is indeed an entertaining event that is appropriate for the entire family. Regarding some of the highlights, attendees will have the chance to admire gardens inspired from the most important football teams of the region, as well as several competitions like the College of the Year floristry competition and the RHS National Young Garden Designer of the year .
Overall, this is your chance to get as much information as possible regarding growing healthy plants and flowers. Additionally, you can even ask for advice from gardeners and they might give you some useful tips when it comes to plants and flowers. The Tatton Park Flower Show 2011 is indeed amazing and full of color. Generally, the summer season is a great opportunity for the people of UK benefit as much as they can from the warm temperatures. Flower shows are all about having a good time with your loved ones, families and close friends.

Tatton Park Flower Show 2011

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Chelsea Flower Show

Chelsea Flower Show

The end of May always heralds the start of the gardening show calendar with the Chelsea Flower show.
Whilst it was not quite as glitzy as it used to be, the 2010 show was a feeling of optimism all around and even the RHS judges awarded 8 gold medals for garden design compared to just 3 in 2009. Unsurprisingly the show was as popular as ever with ticket touts selling single tickets for up to £1000.
The 15 main show gardens were all fantastic in their own unique ways and it is inconceivable as to how much work the designers and their assistants put in to make the Chelsea Flower show as special as it was. Many of the exhibitors spend much of the working year in preparation for the show with many suppliers using the show as an opportunity to launch new strains and hybrids of plants, seed and bulbs.
The 26 themes this year ranged from biodiversity to contemporary, to cottage style to more traditional (and not forgetting ‘urban’).
This year, the Tourist Malaysia garden design drew much attention and was not surprisingly full of large lush exotic planting and it had a ‘living’ wall. There was plenty of structure and water which seems to be a major theme in garden design at the show this year.
The M&G garden was a beautiful romantic English garden, with reclaimed brick paths, pergolas and rambling roses tumbling everywhere. Amazingly it even went to the extent of having an old animal trough as an additional water trough to the pond.
The Daily Telegraph garden design also won an award. This particular garden was very visual and seemed to utilise more flowers than some other contenders in addition to the unusual steel columns in between. A mixture of cottage and contemporary.
It wasn’t surprising that the Eden Project garden design was one of the most talked about and most highly anticipated. The Project had constructed a greenhouse out of plastic bottles, sticking with their strict ‘green’ garden design ethics. There were many homeless people who were involved with the building of this garden and there was a great sense of camaraderie between them all allegedly.
The one thing that did seem quite surprising considering the historical prominence of lady horticulturists and their influence on gardening in Britain was that so few women designers exhibited at Chelsea Flower Show in 2010. Out of the main 15 show gardens, only one of them had been solely designed by a woman, while one other was a male/female partnership. This coincides with the all of the hard landscaping and popular use of structures in Garden Design so maybe this is seen as a male realm?
As well as all these stunning gardens and of course the smaller ones too, the marquees and the Grand Pavilion were as popular and as interesting as previous years, filled to the rafters with everything imaginable ranging from cut flowers to vegetables (even giant vegetables!) to conservatory tender plants to palm trees. The marquees were cool and the smell was wonderful, even if the weather outside wasn’t quite so Spring like.
The amazing flowers and plants lifted one’s soul and filled you with a sense of wonder at their beauty. There is so much to see at the Chelsea Flower show that it is not surprising that the opening times are from eight in the morning until eight in the evening and that people leaving look happy but very, very tired…
On the very last day there is the amazing plant sale, practically a tradition now in the UK’s Horticulture calendar. People who know the form head straight to the Great Pavilion, (which this year was also a welcome shelter from the constant rain) and begin their negotiations early with the exhibitors. The plants officially go on sale when the bell rings at 4pm but the majority of the stall owners tend to let people reserve their plants and pay for them in advance, so it’s always a good idea, if you have come across something you really want, to go and secure it.
However if you are less sure about what plants you really want, you may be better off to wait until the end of sale as most exhibitors are keen to sell their products rather than have to take them home with them, especially after a week of hot weather, which will have taken its toll on a few of the weaker-stemmed flowers such as the beautiful yet slightly depleted tulips.
Each year during the Chelsea Flower show, there seems to be plants that are more fashionable than others and sell more. This year it was the Sea Hollies, common Myrtle Salvias, Mexican Feather grasses and the Alpine mint bushes which were amongst the more popular.
The Chelsea Flower show is one of those places that every home garden designer should visit at least once, but remember to buy your tickets well in advance, wear comfortable shoes and be prepared to take it easy the next day!

Chelsea Flower Show

Saturday, September 3, 2011

The 2011 Philadelphia International Flower Show

The 2011 Philadelphia International Flower Show

The 2011 Flower Show will Toast the Gardening and Culture of Paris!
With the 2010 Flower Show drawing crowds to the Pennsylvania Convention Center through March 7, planning for next year’s Show has begun in earnest.
PHS, producer of the famed event, announced that the Show theme for next year will be “Springtime in Paris” to be held March 6 – March 13, 2011, a nod to the world’s most popular tourist destination.
“From Moulin Rouge to the Musee d’Orsay, Paris intrigues and entertains like no other city,” said Show Designer Sam Lemheney.
Featured displays will draw from the Louvre, the Musee d’Orsay, artists such as Renoir, Monet, and van Gogh; modern art collections of the National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou; and the beloved Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise and le Catacombes where the remains of Chopin, Moliere, Gertrude Stein, Jim Morrison, and Oscar Wilde reside.
The Philadelphia International Flower Show is produced by PHS and presented by PNC. PHS has 16,000 members throughout the country, offers hundreds of educational programs year-round, and is considered the nation’s leading authority on urban renewal through greening. The Flower Show benefits Philadelphia Green, PHS’s acclaimed program that restores neighborhood parks, creates community gardens, conducts large-scale tree plantings, revitalizes vacant land, engages thousands of citizens in community development activities, and maintains treasured public landscapes. As the nation’s largest comprehensive community greening program, Philadelphia Green serves as a model for cities across the U.S.
The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (www.pnc.com) is one of the nation’s largest diversified financial services organizations providing retail and business banking; residential mortgage banking; specialized services for corporations and government entities, including corporate banking, real estate finance and asset-based lending; wealth management; asset management and global fund services.

The 2011 Philadelphia International Flower Show

Lalbagh Flower Show - Aug 2011

Lalbagh Flower Show - Aug 2011

Every Republic day (Jan 26th) & Independence day (Aug 15th) there will be a Flower Show in Bangalore usually in Lalbagh Garden. This year's Independence day, a Lotus Temple & the Wheel of Sun Temple, Konark is designed using the flowers in Lalbagh's Glass house.