The 5th edition of VerdeMura ( www.verdemura.it ) will take place on the sixteenth-century walls of Lucca from 30 March to 1 April 2012.

VerdeMura is a Fair and Green Living outdoors, organized by the Opera of the Walls of Lucca ( ​​www.lemuradilucca.it ) in 2011 which saw over 15,000 visitors and over 200 exhibitors.

VerdeMura takes place in a spectacular location, the bastion San Martino with its dungeons and its terraces, in a period of the season which is excellent for shopping and furnishing of the Green Garden.

We know that the end of March is the ideal month to give your garden all the comforts of a pleasurable experience it.

The sectors that are present in VerdeMura are:

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It also renewed this year and reached its fifth edition, the appointment with Perugia Flower Show, the market-Rare plant and Unusual that brings together top producers nationally and internationally for the benefit of the growing number of enthusiasts.

Since the first edition, the event has gained more and more acclaim and an exponential increase in requests to participate: to give space to display all valid, in fact, this year's edition is also introduced in Autumn (8/9 September 2012) which will finally submit the botanical varieties peculiar to the season.

The world of quality gardening is a rapidly growing environment: this is because, in the purely aesthetic sphere featuring floral products, always very colorful and attractive, combine the therapeutic action and the ease with which you can practice gardening activities and cultivation of plants, including the most rare and unusual.

The organization of Perugia Flower Show is proposed in this general framework, to create a complete event, with the excellence of producers florovivaistici from side to side, the most comprehensive training that experts can offer.

In order to provide the right foundation for new fans, and the public with expert news and more detailed information on products, for the success of the event and to set conditions for future construction.

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Do not miss the course of Rose Pruning, on February 25, 2012 at 9:30 at the Museum in the gardens on the north 10 260, 41028 Montagnana Serramazzoni (mo).

The Museum of Old Rose Garden and its experts will be available to work with you on rose pruning and share their experience on the specific topic.

The meeting aims to identify with the goal of any pruning in the light of the specificity of the plant and habitat conditions. Nature itself provides a autopotatura of old parts, or useless plant. Pruning at the hands of man can speed up a process that would take much longer and slower and encourage the welfare of the plant.

The day is organized around two main parts: a theoretical part where he talks about the anatomy of the rose, and the biological cycle of the little secrets that make a successful pruning, and a second practical part where everyone will work out of bushes and vines for adults get the final result due to group work, advice and documentation available.

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The strawberry is certainly the culture that has had and still has the highest evolution of cultural practices in recent decades. The rapid variation of the "technology" ensures that the strawberry crop is affected by the move from an area where you use certain techniques to another that it introduces new ones.

At European level, Spain, Italy and France are the three main producing countries in the order of strawberries. In recent years in Belgium, Holland and some Italian alpine areas there has been an expansion of the strawberry with the development of cultivation techniques "soilless" to produce strawberries "off season" which may mean a delay in the anticipated production.

The standard varieties are currently undergoing major changes in both growing areas: the southern (Spain and southern Italy, North Africa and other Mediterranean countries) sees the emergence of variety "California" or related products; the northern (Po Valley, Northern France and Central Europe), where variety dominate "Europe" recently established.

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Saturday 22 and Sunday, October 23, 2011, from 9.30 to 18, the Masino Castle Park, in Caravino (TO), will host the seventh edition of the "Two days in the autumn", exhibition and market of unusual plants and special a spectacular show of colors and flavors of autumn, organized by the FAI - Italian Environmental Fund under the careful direction of the architect Paul Pejrone, founder and President of the Piedmont Garden.

The event this year will offer to all experts or simple gardening enthusiasts the unique opportunity to meet up with over 130 of the best Italian and European nurserymen, Masino to present their collections of point and interesting news. In this season of renewal and preparation for the next year, visitors can then read up on plants and flowers for the "garden that will be", and purchase rare and ancient orchard and garden products, which are usually difficult to find.

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Floral Vanzo, the event dedicated to amateur gardeners will be back with the fifth edition in the traditional and prestigious park of Villa Giustiniani, St. Peter Viminario, Padua - Saturday 17 and Sunday, September 18, 2011. Vanzo Floral chooses the autumn, the best season for the garden to prepare land for planting bulbs, new plants, waiting for spring to give the best blooms.

It 's already in full swing the selection of exhibitors: nurserymen, nurserymen, craftsmen to ensure a quality required by our increasingly demanding and looking for ideas, suggestions and ideas.

In homage to the old rose garden of the park, always pride and passion of Robert and Lorenzo Giustiniani, the rose is the star of the exhibition with the latest collections: antique roses, botanical and modern. There are also over-blooming hydrangeas autumn, winter-flowering bulbous plants, the iris, ornamental grasses and herbaceous perennials. And more citrus and a rich collection of aromatic fruits antique and reclaimed materials, special attention to the apple in a wonderful collection of unusual species.

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Saturday 14 and Sunday, May 15 will be held at Santarcangelo, the 23rd edition of the festival Balconies Bloom, an event born with commitment and creativity of the Association of We Rock., with the organization of Blue Nautilus srl.

Not just a flower market, but an entire city that is colored and dresses in colors and scents, with staging of the balconies and across the Square and the historic center, by nurserymen, producers and citizens.

They are expected to attract over 100 exhibitors divided between growers, producers and artisans, they will create a colorful garden where you can find: plants, flowers, succulents, bonsai, pots and crockery, garden furniture (wicker and wrought iron), machinery and equipment gardening, crafts floral essences, perfumes, herbal and natural products

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Return to successfully meet dedicated to green nursery.
From May 20 to 22 blooms again with the fourth edition of the "Perugia Flower Show", exhibition of rare and unusual plants.

Manufacturers specialized and accredited collectors bring on stage during the three days the best production nurseries.

The botanical peculiarities animate and adorn the gardens of Fronto, the green heart of the city of Perugia, real protagonists are as always so the flowers and plants from unusual varieties, colors and shapes more details.

Sponsored by the City and the Province of Perugia, the Umbria Region, the event is part of the most prestigious in Italy in the field of floriculture.
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Spring is back in town with the second edition of "Brixia Florum". After the huge success of last year, returns Sunday, April 3 at Brescia "Brixia Florum", exhibition of plants and flowers on this occasion, decked out in green Zanardelli course.

It renews the appointment with love gardens and gardening. The nurserymen Bresciani Association in collaboration with the Municipality of Brescia and the district center organizes Sunday, April 3 Zanardelli Course in the second edition of "Brixia Florum". And 'guaranteed an explosion of colors and scents only thanks to 19 companies will showcase hundreds of seasonal varieties.

Many new blooms in this edition: beautiful varieties of bromeliads, colorful tropical plants that do not require special care are among the most important products of our province, or Dipladenia, evergreen climber from America with flowers in shades ranging from white to red. They will also present some examples from the collection of cacti and succulents from May prepare to give wonderful blooms.

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Sunday, May 22, 2011, from 10 to 18, the FAI - Italian Environmental Fund organizes the first edition of "Flowers of May ", a lively market exhibition that will see gathered in the beautiful setting of Villa Della Porta Bozzolo Casalzuigno (VA) florists and nurserymen who will offer the public their best collections of flowers and plants for gardens, terraces and gardens.

The undisputed star of the exhibition will be the pink flower of May for excellence and has always been synonymous with elegance, which will present major Italian and European selections.

Great space will then be reserved for the colors and scents of other beautiful blooms typical of spring: the original varieties of hydrangeas, fuchsias, pelargoniums and scented botanical flowers, orchids, herbaceous perennials, shrubs, ornamental berries, shrubs and vines and plants aromatic. Also listed garden furniture and terracotta items, toiletries and beauty of the body from natural sources, as well as various types of honey and jams, produced by renowned local farms.

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