Plant aficionados, wagons in tow, will be first in line for A Bloomin’ Sale, the Midwest’s premier plant sale, which returns to the Chicago Botanic Garden on Saturday, May 17 and Sunday, May 18. The Woman’s Board of the Chicago Horticultural Society planned this 42nd annual sale with the theme "Success with the Best." More than 30,000 plants in 900 varieties will be available, including many that are hard to find, easy to grow and reliably hardy.

The Model Railroad Garden: “Landmarks of America” opens for its ninth season at the Chicago Botanic Garden on Saturday, May 10 with new landmarks in Seattle, the Pacific Northwest and San Francisco, including Telegraph Hill. A family favorite, this enchanting outdoor exhibition takes visitors from coast to coast with model trains, miniature representations of America’s best-loved landmarks, and colorful small-scale gardens.

Kew Gardens is leaping into 2008 with the biggest display of spring flowers in the country. Over 5 million flowering bulbs will melt away the winter and carpet the beautiful open spaces of Kew with a riot of colour. Two million blue, white and mauve crocuses (Crocus vernus) will greet visitors as they enter the grand Victoria Gate entrance of the Gardens.

The Young Collectors Committee of the Antiques & Garden Fair gathered recently at the home of Cathy and Michael Busch in Winnetka to view their home and meet its interior designer, Ruthie Sommers. Sommers has been named one of the "Top 25 New Designers" in America by House Beautiful and she ranks among House & Garden's top five in "Best of Design."

Exhibition and sale of original botanical paintings and drawings
Good Friday to Easter Monday, March 21-24

The annual Artists & Artisans Festival showcases the work of more than 20 American artists in metal, painting, photography, jewelry, pottery and more. Find unique items such as bird houses made from mesquite, sculptured metal flowers and handmade stoneware.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden announces Hanami, the Cherry Blossom-Viewing Season, April 5–May 4, 2008. Hanami is the Japanese cultural tradition of viewing and cherishing each moment of the cherry's flowering season—from the first buds, to the luminous blossoms, to the waterfall of petals cascading from the trees. At Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Hanami includes a series of seasonal events that pay tribute to the Garden's iconic collection of Japanese flowering cherry trees.

It will soon be time for those bluebonnet photos, and one of the best places to take them is at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, in Austin TX during the 2008 Wildflower DaysTM. Between March 10 and April 30, the center is open every day, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Look for meadows and gardens abloom with Indian paintbrush, winecups, evening primroses, giant spiderworts, Blackfoot daisies and Drummond phlox as well as the Texas state flower.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden is counting down to its second annual Lunar New Year Celebration and Flower Market on Sunday, February 3, 2008. Because plants are such an important element of a traditional Lunar New Year celebration, the Garden is the ideal setting to welcome 4705.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden's extraordinary winter landscape beckons visitors with the hushed beauty of the season, including the sculpted architecture of the plants and landscapes in the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden and the Osborne Garden.

The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art at Kew Gardens, opening in spring 2008, will be the first gallery in the world dedicated to botanical art and open to the public all year round. The gallery, designed by award-winning architects Walters and Cohen, will exhibit precious works of art from the collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Dr Shirley Sherwood, many of which have never been on public display before.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) announces its Second Annual Lunar New Year Celebration & Flower Market, on Sunday, February 3 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. What better way to usher in 4705—the year of the Rat—than with an exciting program of Asian entertainment and a special cut-flower market featuring plants used in the Lunar New Year celebrations of China, Korea, and Vietnam?