Re: Roger Swain and People Plants and Places Show

In a message dated 3/20/03 7:50:51 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
cherylisaak@adelphia.net writes:


The new show arrives Sunday AM - on Channel 56 at 8 AM, on the 
America One cable channel on Sundays at 10:30 AM.
The first show is at the New England Spring Flower show,>>>>>

Aha, Cheryl, 8:00 am.  I did find it in the upstate NY market on WRGB, local 
channel 6,a powerful local station. The time is 6:30 am Sunday.  Poor Roger, 
I am not up at 6:30 am on Sunday for anyone.  The markets for this show are 
Boston, Hartford, Providence, Albany and Portland.  All in the Northeast.

<<<<which leads to the question - did any one go to the  NE Flower Show? 
I was going to boycott based on the sale of so much of their library, 
but I find myself desperate for a breath of spring; its been a long 
and stressful winter.>>>>>

We went.  Take money. Parking is 12.00 and tickets are 16.00.  For me the 
Mass Turnpike adds another 5.60.  And that gets you in the door.  Bayside 
Expo has a show contact over next year.  In either 2004 or 2005 it will move 
to the new New England Conference Center and will have 15 acres. This will 
either be nirvana in the spring or bankrupt the MassHortSoc.  There are many 
springy things and a large marketplace doing a land office business.  There 
is a very good seed seller with seeds from the US, Frances, Italy plus onion 
asparagus and that sort of thing.  For those of you who live in towns and 
cities where big city prices are not the norm, if attending here bring money. 
 If driving the BigDig has finally gone off into it's final position and the 
road which moves location yearly is now a straight, uncluttered shot into 
Bayside.

Somewhat related, here is site selling every kind poppy there is plus other 
unusual seeds:

 <A HREF="http://www.cyberus.ca/~rborg/seeds/";>Click here: 2003 Seed Catalog. Seeds, Tree Seedlings, and flower bulbs from 
Borghese Gardens</A>

They had a flyer there and I saw the website just this week.  Some rare and 
unusual seeds for collectors, a Canadian company.  

Montreal had an example of mosaiculture.  In Montreal there is a large 
permanent competitive display of this garden form which is mostly Oriental 
and very intricate.  The next world competition will be in Boston.  Figures, 
whole enacted dioramas are done in plants.  The plants are sprayed and 
trimmed daily, the various colors of the plants making the "sculptures."  
There is a website on the Montreal garden which proved popular enough to keep 
it on for a while. Another digression for the Northeast.  If going up to 
Canada for a few days, a four day plant show and sale and tea 
celebration/sale (Japanese and Chinese gardens in Montreal Bot.) will be May 
21-24.  I think I can throw this in here as many New York and New England 
gardeners drive up to Canada in the spring.  The Montreal Bot site which was 
in French for years, now has an English version.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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