Saturday, March 2, 2013

Flower Shows And Festivals Showcase Spring Blooms


This week the always magnificent PHS Philadelphia Flower Show is underway.  If you are not able to visit Philadelphia
we are including a list of other festivals and events compiled by the AP celebrating the Spring, we expect most welcome in some hard hit regions by Winter storms. 

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Big Ben, the central display welcoming attendees of the PHS Philadelphia Flower Show





FILE - In this March 19, 2012 file photo shows blooming cherry blossoms framing the Jefferson Memorial, on the Tidal Basin in Washington. The bloom season is one of a number around the country this spring celebrating flowers in season. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Here are some of the best and biggest festivals and flower shows around the U.S. this spring, along with some notable botanical gardens where something is always in bloom.
EVENTS
Atlanta Dogwood Festival, April 19-21, Piedmont Park, Atlanta, http://www.dogwood.org/

Biltmore Blooms Festival of Flowers, March 21-May 31, Biltmore Estate, Asheville, N.C., http://www.biltmore.com

Boston Flower & Garden Show, March 13-17, Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, http://www.bostonflowershow.com/

Biltmore Blooms Festival of Flowers, through March 23, Middleton Place, Charleston, S.C., http://www.middletonplace.org/

Celebrate Spring, March 1-April 30, Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, Ga., http://www.callawaygardens.com/

Chicago Flower & Garden Show, March 9-17, Navy Pier, Chicago, http://www.chicagoflower.com

Daffodil Days, April 6-28, Blithewold Mansion, Gardens & Arboretum, Bristol, R.I., http://www.blithewold.org

Daffodil Festival, April 26-28, Nantucket, Mass., http://www.nantucketchamber.org

Dallas Blooms, March 2-April 7, Dallas Arboretum, http://www.dallasarboretum.org

Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival, March 6-May 19, Walt Disney World, Lake Buena Vista, Fla., https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/events-tours/epcot/epcot-international-flower-and-garden-festival/

Festival of Flowers, March 21-24, Bellingrath Gardens, Theodore, Ala. (near Mobile), http://www.bellingrath.org

Garden Conservancy's Open Days (more than 300 private gardens in 18 states open to public on select dates March-November), http://www.opendaysprogram.org


Hatsume Fair, March 23-24, Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Delray Beach, Fla., http://www.morikami.org/

Garden Club of Virginia's Historic Garden Week, tours at various sites April 20-27, http://www.VAGardenweek.org

Lilac Festival, May 10-19, Rochester, N.Y., http://www.lilacfestival.com/

National Cherry Blossom Festival, March 20-April 14, Washington, D.C., http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/

Philadelphia Flower Show, March 2-10, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, http://www.philaflowershow.com

Sakura Matsuri Festival, April 27-28, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, N.Y., http://www.bbg.org

San Francisco Flower & Garden Show, March 20-24, San Mateo Event Center, San Mateo, Calif., http://sfgardenshow.com/

Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival, April 26 - May 5, Winchester, Va., http://www.thebloom.com

Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, April 1-30, Mount Vernon, Wash., http://www.tulipfestival.org/

Tulip Time Festival, Holland, Mich,, May 4-11, http://www.holland.org/visitors/tulip-time-festival/

Tulip Time, May 2-4, Pell, Iowa, http://www.pellatuliptime.com/tulip-time/

Washington State Apple Blossom Festival, April 25-May 5, Wenatchee, Wash., http://www.appleblossom.org/

Wistaria Festival, March 17, Sierra Madre, Calif., http://www.sierramadrenews.net/?page_id=259
PLACES

Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island, Wash., http://www.bloedelreserve.org

Cleveland Botanical Garden, Cleveland, http://www.cbgarden.org/

Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, http://www.dbg.org

Dumbarton Oaks Gardens, Washington D.C., http://www.doaks.org/

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, Fla., http://www.fairchildgarden.org/

Garden in the Woods, Framingham, Mass., http://www.newfs.org

Holden Arboretum, Kirtland, Ohio, http://www.holdenarb.org

International Rose Test Garden, Washington Park, Portland, Ore., http://washingtonparkpdx.org/attractions/

Huntington Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Calif., http://www.huntington.org

Lan Su Chinese Garden, Portland, Ore., http://www.portlandchinesegarden.org/

Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pa., http://www.longwoodgardens.org

Magnolia Plantation & Gardens, Charleston, S.C., http://www.magnoliaplantation.com

Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Mo., http://www.mobot.org

New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York, http://www.nybg.org

San Francisco Botanical Garden, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, http://www.sfbotanicalgarden.org

U.S. Botanic Garden Conservatory, Washington, D.C., http://www.usbg.gov

Wave Hill, Bronx, N.Y., http://www.wavehill.org

Winterthur Garden, Winterthur, Del., http://www.winterthur.org

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