Hortikultura 2017 starts tomorrow

For gardening enthusiasts, all roads will lead to the Quezon Memorial Circle in Quezon City starting tomorrow where Hortikultura 2017 is being staged by the Philippine Horticultural Society headed by Dorie S. Bernabe, chairman, and Norma Villanueva, president.

This will be the first major garden show for 2017 that will end on February 15. The site is the Flower Garden at the East Avenue entrance of Quezon Memorial Circle.

For those who will be looking for plants and garden supplies to buy, there will be two sites of the commercial section. One is at the left side of the entrance while the other is the site for Friends of AANI on the right side adjacent to the entrance ticketing booth.

The stallholders at the Friends of AANI site will make available planting materials of exotic fruit trees, fresh farm produce like fruits and vegetables, herbal wellness and beauty products, organic fertilizers and biopesticides, ornamental plants and many others.

On the other side, visitors will find a wide variety of ornamental plants that could range from foliage plants, flowering annuals, orchids and many more.

Of interest to the attendees will be the daily lectures starting from February 3, 2 to 4 pm, with Kurt Tan discussing easy to plant carnivorous plants for the tropics.

The next day, the Bureau of Plant Industry will discuss the import and export permit requirements at 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Then from 12 to 2 p.m. Lino Rom will talk on culturing cacti and succulents, to be followed by a lecture

LECTURER ON BREEDING AROIDS – Photo at left shows Fernando Aurigue handing his book on Appreciating Native Trees to PHSI chairman Dorie S. Bernabe in one of the meetings of the garden club. Mr. Aurigue will speak on the need to strengthen the breeding...