Upcoming Events in the Mid-Atlantic II

all right, Speedie--yay! :-) Looking forward to finally meeting you in person!!

We are really looking forward to seeing everyone. I'll be putting up Swap threads in another couple of weeks.

Me too, Catmint, YAAYYY!!! < =D

Patiently chomping at the bit Holly, no hurry. ;) heeheeheee

About the middle of the month that will give everyone 2 months to chat away.

Thank you, Holly, in advance for hosting this event. Button & Bobbin

Flower show season is starting.
This weekend - 9-6 on January 16, 17, and 9-4 on the 18th is the
North Jersey Orchid Society Show and Sale at
Strawberry Blossom, 1364 State Route 23, Wayne, NJ 07470
It's really nice. I've gone for the last 2 years. There are several orchid vendors, and many specimen plants of all kinds of orchids. The store is cleared out from Christmas and the society takes over. There are usually a talk or a tour at some point. Definitely worth a little trip.

This message was edited Jan 16, 2015 9:40 PM

Thanks! It was high time I updated this thread & a flower show is a great way to kick off 2015!

event for TODAY! Dinner party gathering for newlyweds Sandy (ILoveJesus99) & David at Chef Lin in Frederick, 6:30. All welcome! Please Dmail me (critterologist) if you think you'll be there.

A sure sign of Spring!!! The shows are back. Here are the links for them. The Harrisburg show has been a disappointment before, seeing will tell. The show at Timonium Fairgrounds will include The 2015 Maryland Orchid Society Show and Sale from Friday, March 6 - Sunday, March 8. We find this the best time to go. The York Expo just keeps getting better and this year we plan to have some entries there.
Harrisburg: http://www.pagardenexpo.org/
York:http://pagsy.com/exhibitors/
Timonium :http://www.mdhomeandgarden.com/spring
and for orchid lovers:http://marylandorchids.org/annual_show.html

Philadelphia Flower Show Starts Friday - February 28th until March 8th.
theflowershow.com
Springfest at the Sussex County Fairgrounds in Augusta, NJ March 12-15
www.springfestgardenshow.org

Meadows Farms sent me an email about the Capital Remodel and Garden Show, which is this weekend. I've never been so I can't recommend it or not.

They said that tickets for the show are $10 at the gate, but:

"Save $4 - purchase tickets online. Follow the link to the Capital Remodel and Garden Show website. Enter code "Meadows" to receive a $4 discount per ticket (now $6) on your online purchase."

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Something I'd like to hear opinions on - I used to go to these "Home and Garden" shows a lot. I'm recently retired so I don't have the extra money now. But I noticed long ago that these shows (plus tv shows like on HGTV) seem to be mostly about home décor & remodeling. It's like the "garden" part has been pushed aside, unless you're talking about monster grills, gazebos, firepits, etc. Very little info on actual plants, shrubs, trees, etc. Any shows out there that talk about actual gardening: shows like Gardening by the Yard (with Paul James)? I've sent emails to HGTV before but never got a reply. Your thoughts?

Carol, The Pa Garden Expo in Hbg was like that. Not only didn't they have much in the way as far as display gardens. There wasn't even plant or garden related vendors. Pretty much all the vendors were hardscape or home improvements. The wine tasting was pretty nice though. LOL

I guess they display items where the money is.
It is unreal how many--and how huge the displays are just Jacuzzi tubs.

In the long run--comparitively, there's very little money to be had with plants.
A landscape job...maybe.

Homestead Gardens in Davidsonville Maryland will be having their "Celebrate Maryland" Flower Show March 13 - 22. They will feature four native landscapes:shore, rural, urban, and mountain, plus workshops (Baltimore Bonsai, organic lawn care, Watershed Stewarts Academy, and Green Goats!

Any one want to meet up there?

http://www.homesteadgardens.com/upcoming-event/celebrate-maryland-2015-flower-show/

I'm not sure if I should post this here or as a separate thread but in response to Carol13:
Have any of you given podcasts a try? I subscribe to many including a few about gardening. These podcasts are a labor of love by other plant nerds and some are well done (content and engineering). I like to listen to them in the car, when doing dishes, cleaning the bathroom, walking the dog, WEEDING, any otherwise mind numbing task. You can subscribe to all of these through itunes. All of these hosts bring in experts across the field and is geared to the garden geek like us, not your typical weekender. It is worth going back into their archives where you will find interviews with various seed companies, nurseries such as Plants Delight, designers like Piet Oudolf, bloggers, authors, Botanical Gardens, Botanical Shows, etc. And in turn, if any of you have recommendations for great gardening podcasts not meant for beginners, please list them.

1. A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach. Margaret is an author and worked with Martha Stewart. She also opens her garden to the Garden Conservancy every year but I haven't made it to one yet. You can either download her through Itunes or stream her on Robin Hood Radio. You can also stream her archives. Her earliest podcasts was a Q and A format but fortunately, she got rid of that early on.

Her blog: http://awaytogarden.com/category/etcetera/radio-podcasts/

I found her on Robin Hood Radio on Demand. Robin Hood Radio is a small NPR station.
http://podcasts.am1020whdd.com/~am1020wh/shows/index.php

2. Ken Druse/Real Dirt: Ken Druse is a known garden author and speaker who lives in NJ and refers to his show as Gardening 2.0. As a matter of fact, I just got a book out of the library by him called The Collector's Garden. Beautiful! Does he get us or what?
His webpage: http://www.kendruse.typepad.com/
Download through Itunes

3. We Dig Plants with Carmen DeVito and Alice Marcus Krieg. They broadcast out of Heritage Radio Network and own a landscape design firm in Brooklyn. Along with the subjects listed above they get into some historical topics and will usually honor someone at the beginning of the show who has done something for horticulture. I found them on itunes originally.

Their page on the Heritage Radio Network:
http://hrn.herokuapp.com/programs/41-We-Dig-Plants


4. Earth Eats: Real Food for Green Living put out by Indiana Public Radio is not a gardening podcast like those listed above and is more of a magazine style format with the current farming news, articles, interviews, recipes from the point of view of green living. I included it because it touches on many subjects that are growing more popular today with younger gardeners. All these stations carry other shows on this subject but I haven't listened to them since my main interest is Plant Hoarding!!

http://indianapublicmedia.org/eartheats/podcasts/

Any one else have a favorite gardening podcast?

Loretta, I've never considered podcasts before. Thanks for the encouragement.

Your welcome! There is a lot of great programming out there. If this kind of thing appeals to you, other off topic podcasts I would like to suggest people check out This American Life, Invisibilia, Radiolab, Planet Money, Freakonomics, Serial, Replay All, Ted Talks, 99% Invisible, Snap Judgement, The Moth, people into music might like Song Exploder just to name a few.

You can find podcasts about any subject you like - celebrity interviews, science, health, working out, organizing your house, money, history, story telling, stand up comedy. Check the reviews, google for top ten lists, still you have to screen through them. Even if the podcaster knows his stuff, the presentation might be a little dry or the sound quality isn't there. Anyway, like audio books, they are up and coming.

Loretta, thanks for all the resources. Have listened to most of the programming above while I deliver newspaper route over my local NPR station. Really keeps the creative juices flowing and "thinking outside the box'. Way hopeful stuff!

Here is something you all might be interested in, it is a free on-line Sustainable Small Farm Summit March 18-21. from 5 - 9 pm
http://www.smallfarmsummit.org/

This is a little ahead but check out the vendor list at the NARGS sale in cold spring, NY.
http://www.stonecrop.org/schedule.html


Stonecrop is delighted to announce the 9th annual North American Rock Garden Society’s plant sale to be held on site here, Saturday, April 25th from 9am to 3pm. In addition to Stonecrop’s offerings of alpine plants and troughs, the following nurseries and vendors will participate in the sale:
o Wrightman Alpines, Ontario - Grower and supplier of choice alpine plants and rock garden plants.
o Garden Vision Epimediums, Templeton, MA - Grower and supplier of Epimediums and other choice shade perennials.
o Broken Arrow, Hamden, CT - Growers of rare and unusual plants.
o Opus Nursery, Compton, RI - Collectors, propagators and growers that focus on the under-cultivated and garden-worthy plants, and specialize in unusual perennials.
o Jay's Nursery, Watertown, CT - Grower of choice conifers and shrubs.
o Debra Pope, Auburn, MA - Creates unique, custom hypertufa troughs.
o Don Dembowski, Pelham, NY - Spring Ephemerals and Woodland Wildflowers.
o Bill Perron, Cortlandt Manor, NY - Offers a variety of Cyclamen species, Arisaema, and Hellebores.
o My House Leeks, Gloucester, MA - Succulents, sedums and alpine planters.
We hope you can join us for this special event and take advantage of viewing Stonecrop’s spring bulb display. Refreshments will be available for purchase. Admission
$5/members - no charge.

It's good to plan ahead and fun to anticipate!

I just put the VA Herb Festival on the list at the top, and it's not until the first weekend in June.

That sounds like a great sale, can't go this year but maybe next year.

I'll try to remember to put a thread up closer to the date to see if anybody wants to ride down to the Herb Festival with us -- and tour the Shenendoah Museum & Gardens, too, I'm hoping!

PLANT SALE by Mount Laurel Garden Club
Sat. Apr 25, 9am - 1pm (most good things go in first hour)
Mostly perennials - very good prices

Mount Laurel Library
100 Walt Whitman Ave
Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054

The Virginia Native Plant Society put together this list of native plants sales this year:

http://vnps.org/conservation/2015-native-plant-sales/

what a great list! They have the green spring sale a week late, I think... so double check any dates/times before you make plans.

I stand corrected. The Green Spring site has the sale date as May 16. Looks like they may have changed the date to accommodate a rescheduled symposium.

We can't "hit up" the Green Spring sale before our spring plant swap now... but you can still stop by DeBaggio Herbs. It's probably half an hour from Vienna, but that's closer for most of us than making a special trip -- and they are worth a special trip! http://www.debaggioherbs.com/

Adkins Arboretum and Nursery Native Plant Sale
Ridgely, MD
April 24 25 26

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1390705/

Burpee flash sale for selected plants. Over in less than 2 hours. flash29
http://www.burpee.com/sale-shop?cohcid=februarysept@optonline.net&trk_msg=NHSC4GK5JB1K1268396G3QEBQG&trk_contact=4QQ5467CMSP0OJ0USJDQKHACJS&espm=42C278BC9A8540C388C81A4D01E9CBD4&espc=1852B426B7EC0C324C1EE4DBAA454C9F&utm_source=Listrak&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=http%3a%2f%2fwww.burpee.com%2fsale-shop%3fcohcid%3d%23Listrak%5cemail%23&utm_campaign=EM_2015-04-17_FlashPerennials&utm_content=DailySend3

National Arboretum is having their plant sale as we speak. I just came from there. Its GREAT!!!!

I did the NARGS sale at Stonecrop Gardens in NY. Got some very small, expensive but unusual plants. There were several vendors including troughs.

The annual Garden Fair at Blandy Farm, The Virginia State Arboretum south of Berryville is May 9th and 10th. Benefits the Arboretum. Around 80 quality vendors.

For directions: http://blandy.virginia.edu/home/directions

For "flyer": http://blandy.virginia.edu/our-foundation/2015-garden-fair

For map of vendors and brief description of their wares see pages 12 and 13 here: http://www.virginia.edu/blandy/blandy_web/all_blandy/ProgramPagesForWeb.pdf

Out of this world selection, take a BIG truck!

For those not going to the swap--here is where you can buy all kinds of plants.
All outdoors--great deals on bulbs from the Spring Bulb Show.

Market Day at Cylburn Arboretum,
8 a.m. - 2 p.m. free admission, free-$10 parking. Bulbs from the Conservatory's spring flower display, annuals and perennials, native plants, and vegetables - there is something for everyone! Find gorgeous hanging baskets, herbs, trees, shrubs, rare and native plants for sale. Many of the plants are grown on-site by the Cylburn Arboretum Association, Baltimore City Recreation & Parks, and UME Baltimore City Master Gardeners, while others come from area garden clubs, specialty growers, and non-profits. Visit their webpage for more info about parking and the free shuttle running all day.