Dora and Diego's Garden Adventure at the San Antonio Botanical Garden. Join Labor Day weekend as for the premiere of Dora and Diego's Garden Adventure. This fun, interactive family exhibit is the first time that Nick Jr's popular characters have ever appeared at a botanical garden. Dora and Diego will guide families through the Formal Gardens as they learn about the natural world. For more information, log on to www.sabot.org
January 12 - February 29, 2008
The Huntsville Botanical Garden is once again going to the dogs!! Our popular Dog Days of Winter promotion begins on January 12 and runs through the month of February. We welcome you and your four legged pals to enjoy a leisurely stroll through the Dogwood Trail and outer loop during January and February. Bring a Frisbee, stick, ball or special toy for your pet to enjoy while playing in the "no leash zone" located in the back of the Garden. Free to members and regular Garden admission for non-members. For more information visit our website at http://www.hsvbg.org/.
January 19 - May 11, 2008
"Dr. Entomo's Palace of Exotic Wonders" - Insect Exhibit at the North Carolina Arboretum. Learn about bizarre live insects from around the world. Reminiscent of a traditional circus sideshow, the exhibit will feature more than two-dozen living and mounted insects ranging from glow-in-the-dark scorpions to bird-eating tarantulas. Visitors will also witness the wonders of metamorphosis as butterflies emerge from their chrysalis in "Winged Transformers," a corresponding butterfly house exhibit.
February 2 - April 13, 2008
Titled "An Alphabet Garden of Orchids," the exhibit will feature hundreds of exquisite orchids --including many rare and endangered species -- from the collections of the United States Botanical Garden and the Smithsonian Institution's Horticulture Services Division. This exhibit will entice visitors to wander through, and linger in, an "alphabet garden" that celebrates the beauty and diversity of orchids. The exhibit invites an exploration of the world of orchids, from their astounding Adaptations to their environment . . . to orchids as a big Business among growers and merchandisers . . . to the critical Conservation of orchids . . . to the Zeal of orchid lovers worldwide. The USBG will host a variety of programs throughout the course of the exhibit, including workshops on painting orchids in oil or watercolor, repotting your own orchids, and photographing orchids; a tour of the exhibit led by a USBG orchid expert; and lectures on orchids as a plant family and the mysteries of orchid pollination. For further programming information, contact the USBG by calling 202-225-1116.
February 21, 2008
Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve presents its 8th Land Ethics Symposium: Creative Approaches to Ecological Landscaping. This stimulating and informative Symposium focuses on ways to create low-maintenance, economical and ecologically balanced landscapes using native plants and restoration techniques. This event will be held at the Sheraton Bucks County Hotel, Langhorne, Pennsylvania in Bucks County and is convenient to I-95 and the PA Turnpike. Continuing education credits are available. Pre-registration required. To request more information call the Preserve 215-862-2924, email Hildy Ellis, ellis@bhwp.org or visit www.bhwp.org.
February 23, 2008
Green Spring Gardens Master Gardeners present the 4th Annual EcoSavvy Gardening Symposium - Techniques for Keeping our Planet Healthy on Saturday, February 23, 2008 from 9 am to 4 pm. Increasing demand, pollution and the impact of climate change on our water supply are global issues with a local impact. Wise water usage will be examined from a variety of viewpoints - a conservationist, ecologists, a park manager and a landscape designer. Pre-registration is required. Contact Sandra Reichert at sandra.reichert@fairfaxcounty.gov for information.
March 7, 2008
The Longwood Graduate Program 2008 Annual Symposium, "Powerful Exhibitions for Every Institution" will be hosted by Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA. Come and discover ways in which your organization can execute exhibitions that have the right fit, the right purpose, and that will attract the right audience. Registration opens January 1, 2008; make sure to sign up early as seating is limited. Please visit our Web site, www.udel.edu/longwoodgrad for more information or contact Kathryn Thoroughgood at longwoodgrad@udel.edu or 302-831-2517.
March 8 - April 13, 2008
Dallas Blooms 2008: The Star of Texas, sponsored by Chase, launches on March 8th and runs through April 13th at the Dallas Arboretum. The ever-popular festival is the largest outdoor floral festival in the Southwest and features more than 400,000 spring-blooming bulbs – including tulips, daffodils, Dutch iris and hyacinth throughout the 66-acre garden. Memories will be made as you stroll through more than 3,000 azaleas in 150 varieties, 100,000 pansies, violas, and poppies, as well as thousands of other spring-blooming annuals and perennials add to the spectacular display with sumptuous shades of pink, red, purple, orange, yellow, and new this year - red, white and blue, as part of our Star of Texas festival.
April 12 and 13, 2008
Chapel Hill Spring Garden Tour
A leisurely self-guided tour of ten distinguished private gardens in residential areas of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and including the North Carolina Botanical Garden, where a native plant sale will be held. Features a wonderland of unique plants, water features, sculptures, and architectural details. Visitors will enjoy a variety of styles and sizes of gardens, including a woodland "rescue garden" featuring rare native plants with over 700 trilliums. Sponsored by the Chapel Hill Garden Club, now in its 77th year. Proceeds benefit construction of the North Carolina Botanical Garden's "green" Visitor Education Center and the educational and community projects of the Chapel Hill Garden Club. See http://www.chapelhillgardentour.net/ for tickets and http://ncbg.unc/ edu for more information.
April 17-19, 2008
The Mount Cuba Center Trillium Symposium. Join the world's leading trillium experts to discover and share unique scientific, conservation, and gardening knowledge about this magnificent woodland treasure. For more information visit www.trilliumsymposium2008.org.
April 18 - 20, 2008
Celebrate the return of green grass and spring blooms outdoors, while discovering the latest trends of modern, "green" and organic design, at the Chicago Botanic Garden's signature spring event, the Antiques & Garden Fair. The ninth annual fair, which runs from Friday, April 18 through Sunday, April 20, offers the best in antique garden furnishings, botanical art and home and garden design from almost 125 dealers from Europe and the United States. Fairgoers will find three trends prevalent at the show: modern, green and organic, as well as colorful gardens throughout the spaces of the Regenstein Center and under tents in the Esplanade and Rose Garden. Bill Heffernan of Heffernan Morgan, Inc, Chicago, has designed the interior spaces.
April 27 - October 31, 2008
The passionate, imaginative fine art of Niki de Saint Phalle is coming to the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis in 2008! From Apr. 27 through Oct. 31, Niki will present 39 mosaic and painted sculptures gathered from around the world, placed throughout the lovely 79-acre botanical garden. Prolific self-taught artist, Niki created a repertoire of work that also included paintings and illustrations. She sculpted her playful, larger-than-life creations from fiberglass, stones, glass, mirrors and semi-precious materials. Visitors are encouraged to touch many of them and some invite sitting or climbing.
June 1-5, 2008
The Society for Economic Botany Annual Meeting sponsored by the Sarah P. Duke Gardens in conjunction with the North Carolina Botanical Garden and the JC Raulston Arboretum. "Building Upon the Legacy of Botanical Education and Traditional Knowledge," will reflect on the current era when teaching botany and basic plant sciences are rapidly declining in American universities, and how this provides an unusual window of opportunity for expanding the role of public gardens. For more information visit our web site at http://www.econbot.org
If your garden has an event that you would like to share, please contact Madeline Quigley, Director of Marketing & Communications at 302-655-7100 ext. 17 or mquigley@publicgardens.org for more information.
