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Spring into the season by forcing flowers
If you are waiting for spring flowers, you can give them a head start by cutting some 1- to 3-foot branches of early blooming shrubs and trees and bringing them inside to open in a vase ahead of schedule. This is called "forcing," though garden maven Martha Stewart thinks this term sounds too violent. She likens it instead to gentle ...
Blooms!, a smaller flower show, comes to Boston
The 137-year-old New England Spring Flower Show has been a well loved Boston tradition, the oldest continuously mounted indoor horticultural display in the world. Last year at the Bayside Expo Center, almost 100,000 people ambled through 5 acres of flower arrangements and indoor gardens of rare plants labeled in botanical Latin, interspersed with waterfalls and fish ponds.
Signs of spring
The Massachusetts Horticultural Society presents Blooms!, March 13-15, in the lobbies of One International Place, the InterContinental Boston, and 125 High Street . March 13, 8 a.m.- 6 p.m., March 14-15, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. 617-933-4933, www.masshort.org