YOUR PLACE EXOTIC BEAUTIES EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ORCHIDS AT ANNUAL SHOW.There is something about orchids that draws people closer. Perhaps it's the delicate flowers. Or maybe the exotic colors and shapes. Whatever the explanation, there's no question orchids attract attention. And lately they're everywhere They're Everywhere is an episode of The WB drama series, Charmed. Synopsis Prue and Piper give in to their fears that the men in their lives may be Warlocks and cast a mind-reading spell to find out the truth. you turn - the grocery store, hardware store and flower shop. Beginning Friday, hundreds of orchid species will be on display and for sale at the 56th annual Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. International Orchid Show. More than 75 exhibits by professional and amateur growers will showcase breeds such as cymbidium, paphiopedilum (lady slipper), cattleya cattleya (kăt`lēə): see orchid. cattleya of Brazil. [Flower Symbolism: WB, 7: 264] See : Flower Or Plant, National and phalaenopsis (moth orchid) at the Earl Warren Showgrounds
Santa Barbara County is one of the nation's largest producers of orchids. In conjunction with the Orchid Show, area growers will open their greenhouses for tours and viewing. Maps and tour information will be available at the show. The show hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and March 25 and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 24 at the Earl Warren Showgrounds Exhibit Building at Highway 101 and Las Positas. Admission is $8 general, $6 for senior and students with ID and free for children 12 and under. For more information, call (805) 967-6331 or log onto www.SBOrchidShow.com. - Elizabeth Smilor To learn more about orchids, become a member of the American Orchid Society The American Orchid Society is a horticultural society devoted to the promotion, cultivation, and study of orchids (plant family Orchidaceae). The organization was founded in 1921 and now has a worldwide membership. . Members receive a subscription to the monthly Orchids magazine, which provides tips and articles on orchid culture, conservation, hybridizing and propagation. It also presents a calendar of orchid shows. You'll also receive ``Your First Orchid'' - a 64-page soft-cover book with more than 70 color photographs and an easy explanation of growing orchids in the greenhouse, on the windowsill, under lights and in the garden - and other resources. Dues are $40 a year. For more information, call the society at (561) 404-2000, check out the Web site at www.orchidweb.org or write AOS (Alternative Operator Services) Operator services provided by a third-party organization. See operator services. 1. AOS - /aws/ (East Coast), /ay-os/ (West Coast) A PDP-10 instruction that took any memory location and added 1 to it. , 16700 AOS Lane, Delray Beach, FL 33446-4361. - Knight Ridder Newspapers CRAZY FOR TULIPS?: Descanso Gardens will kick off its annual Spring Festival of Flowers with Tulip Mania today through March 25. More than 24,000 tulips, daffodils, Dutch hyacinths, Dutch iris and other flowers will be greeting spring as they unfold to full bloom full bloom the stage of a crop when two-thirds of the plants are in flower; the crop is mature. by the end of the month. There will be garden walks, gardening demonstrations, flower shows, plant sales, workshops and seminars, children's activities, music and more. Children will laugh when they recognize the Surfing Rhinos, nine life- size topiaries based on the characters in Julie Mammano's children's book ``Rhinos Who Surf.'' You will enjoy ``tiptoeing'' down the Tulip Promenade, which is planted with 20,000 tulips, representing 75 varieties. You can also take a narrated tram tour for $2 per person. Today, Mammano will sign books from noon to 4 p.m., pausing to speak at 12:30 and 3 p.m. From 1 to 3 p.m. there will be ukulele ukulele (y  kəlā`lē), Hawaiian musical instrument developed from the Portuguese guitar. It has a fretted fingerboard and four strings that are plucked or strummed. music. Today and Sunday, there will be guided tours of the Boddy House at 1 p.m. and walking tours through the gardens at 1:30 p.m. Sit in on ``The Tulips of Spring 2001: How to Grow Tulips in Southern California'' at 2:30 p.m. March 24, presented by Brian Sullivan, horticulture supervisor for Descanso Gardens. At 2:30 p.m. March 25, camellia camellia (kəmēl`yə) [for G. J. Kamel, a Moravian Jesuit missionary], any plant of the genus Camellia in the tea family, evergreen shrubs or small trees native to Asia but now cultivated extensively in warm climates and in horticulturist Wayne Walker will speak about ``Secrets of Camellia Care.'' Garden hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily. Admission is $5 general, $3 seniors and students, $1 children ages 5-12 and free for children under 5. Descanso Gardens is at 1418 Descanso Drive, La Canada Flintridge. Call (818) 952-4401 or visit www.descansogardens.org. - Michelle J. Mills A STITCH IN TIME
a competition in the pleasure horse sport comprising usually one day each for dressage, cross country and show jumping. will include quilting quilting, form of needlework, almost always created by women, most of them anonymous, in which two layers of fabric on either side of an interlining (batting) are sewn together, usually with a pattern of back or running (quilting) stitches that hold the layers classes, quilt appraisal and a 54-merchant mall of quilts, fabrics and other quilting materials. Show hours are 2 to 9 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 24 and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 25 at 2500 Hollywood Way in Burbank. Admission is $7 daily, $2 for children 2-11 and $10 for a three-day pass. For more information, call (888) 337-8458 or log onto www.glendalequiltguild.com. - Daily News CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1) no caption (orchids) (2) no caption (tulips) (3) no caption (quilt) |
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