March
5 ,
2004
Annual
Spring Flower Show Opens March 6
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Photo:
Todd M. LeMieux
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The annual Spring Flower
Show at the botanic garden will begin Saturday, March 6, and run
through
Sunday, March 21, in the Talcott Greenhouse. The popular show
will feature the display of hundreds of spring-blossoming bulbs
and plants in the main show house.
In recognition of the 2004 U.S. Women’s Open to be played
this summer at The Orchards, Mount Holyoke's 18-hole championship
golf course, this year’s theme, “Links to Spring” will
include golf-themed vignettes interspersed among spring-blooming
bulbs and plants. Visitors may expect to see fragrant hyacinths,
narcissus, pansies, anemones, ranunculus, daffodils, crocus,
scilla, muscari, and primroses, as well as the brightly colored,
daisylike cineraria and the red and yellow-hued calceolaria,
or pocketbook plant.
Visitors may also wish to explore other areas of the century-old
Victorian era greenhouse complex. The Talcott Greenhouse displays
a permanent, living collection of plants from around the world,
including ferns, orchids, bromeliads, aquatic plants, cacti and
succulents, as well as other tropical, subtropical, and temperate
plants. The warm conservatory, which contains larger tropical
specimens such as bamboo, calabash, palms, ficus, and banana
plants, is especially popular with visitors.
The show will run daily from March 6 through 21 from 10 AM to
4 PM. The greenhouse is wheelchair accessible, and the show is
free and open to the public. Groups are welcome with advance
notice. For more information or directions, please call 413-538-2116,
or visit http://www.mtholyoke.edu/go/botanic.he unhe
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