15 Exhibitions For Landscape Designers

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

Review of the most interesting exhibitions of landscape design

Prepared by the landscape design department of IDS-Petersburg

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Spring is the time for fresh solutions! How to become a successful landscape designer, where to study and how to improve your skills? The landscape design course at IDS Petersburg is based on four main pillars - the study of the most modern aspects of the landscape designer's activity, acquaintance with European trends and technologies, mastering the programs for constructing graphic images of the landscape environment and practice on real objects. An important role in teaching students a new specialty is given to visiting exhibitions and internships - this is also important for advanced training. Design expert and School teacher Ksenia Bandorina tells about the main exhibitions recommended for landscape designers to visit.

Almost all gardening and landscape exhibitions are held in spring, starting in March. The flower city is called Salzburg - you can explore it through flower beds, squares and parks. From 23 to 25 March, the international specialized exhibition Garten Salzburg is taking place at the Salzburg Messezentrum exhibition center, where selective and traditional varieties of flowers, shrubs and trees will be presented. Along with planting material, you will find new decorative tools for decorating both large gardens and small home flower beds and lawns.

Professionals of landscape design and garden art are expected at the specialized exhibition DACHA OUTDOOR, which will be held from 25 to 27 March at the Moscow Crocus Expo. The format of the B2B fair involves business communication between suppliers and buyers on special offers from Russian manufacturers. Here you can not only update your spring arsenal of tools, but also get useful business contacts.

The "Summer Season" will begin in Rostov-on-Don from March 29 to April 1 and will show architectural projects, landscape design tools and a variety of planting materials.

In the Austrian city of Wels, several exhibitions on garden and park design will take place at once, including Blühendes Österreich (Blooming Austria). Exhibitors place great emphasis on organizing and decorating recreation areas. Expert presentations, show gardens, plants and rare plants, decorations, swimming pools and practical garden technologies - there is nothing better in Wels than the spring Blühendes Österreich.

“Art-landscape” exhibition - from April 24 to 28, professionals of landscape and floristry, as well as those who independently practice garden art, come to the Moscow exhibition center “Sokolniki”. During the exhibition, you can learn about the features of new products and the nuances of this segment, the latest developments and prospects in this area. The exhibition is attended by leading manufacturers and organizations from all over Russia and the CIS countries, foreign manufacturers and distributors.

The international exhibition Nature Expo invites you to Riga from 27 to 29 April. Its Gardening section will bring together professional gardeners, florists, industry specialists and everyone who is fond of floriculture and loves to work in the garden. A bright florist competition will be organized. Within the framework of business meetings, issues of environmental protection, green agricultural technologies, environmentally friendly machines and equipment will be covered.

The international exhibition GreenTech Amsterdam will open its doors from 12 to 16 June. With gardening products and solutions, inspiring classes on the latest topics and technologies of the future, you get an overview of your gardening business opportunities. GreenTech Amsterdam is the global meeting point for all horticultural professionals. Last year's edition featured 415 exhibitors from 30 countries, including all market leaders, and four related themes: Crops, Water, Energy and Biobases, a Vertical Farming Pavilion, and an Equipment and Technology Showroom.

From June 19 to June 21, SALON du VEGETAL will take place in France - this is an annual meeting for specialists from the floriculture industry, where business ties are forged. The exhibition in Nantes will be attended by: owners of nurseries, plant breeders, representatives of wholesale companies, as well as manufacturers. This is a showcase of new products and services for professional buyers, a real push for marketing plans.

The Garden Show Oslo is held from 20 to 22 April in Lillestrom, Norway, and it's a real festival! Traditionally, the Oslo Garden Show will demonstrate to visitors a wide range of flowers and plants, innovative ideas related to the arrangement of garden areas, garden tools, seeds and seedlings of plants. This exhibition is intended for true gardening enthusiasts who are interested in news and useful advice from leading experts.

Meanwhile, the Interflora exhibition will be open in Moscow from 22 to 28 April.

Within the framework of the V International specialized exhibition, a rich business program for specialists and design lovers will be held: a competition in professional floristry, seminars from manufacturers of materials, conferences, master classes. To ensure a systematic approach to the issues of functional arrangement of the urban environment, social projects and preservation of the historical appearance of cities, the Green City festival is starting, in which specialists from the field of landscape architecture, landscaping and gardening will take part.

The semi-annual garden festival "Radicepura", an international event dedicated to garden design, begins on April 27th. The venue for the Garden Biennale is Sicily. All events of the festival are dedicated to the current trends in garden design and landscape architecture in the Mediterranean with the participation of young aspiring designers, companies and major players in landscape and architecture. At the Radicepura Botanical Park, you can visit 14 gardens created especially for the festival using the most original plants grown for the event.

April 27 - 28, Toby Buckland Garden Festival (Great Britain, Castle Powderham, Kenton) - everyone who wants to see and purchase the highest quality plants from first-class nurseries from the famous landscape designer strives here. Competitions for the best landscape projects, floristic installations and stylish shows will be held in the unique castle grounds in order to return you to the atmosphere of classic English gardens.

May 31 - June 4 Bloom is Ireland's largest garden festival featuring top designer gardens in Dublin. On the territory of 70 acres of Phoenix Park, competitive installations will be spread, among which will be selected the best in categories - large and small gardens, concepts and implemented projects.

The most anticipated event for all florists and landscape designers is the Chelsea Flower Show, which will be traditionally held in London from 22 to 26 May. According to the results of the luxurious exhibition, the flower of the year will be chosen, and among the author's projects of the gardens one of the best will be named. Each of the gardens, which is created at the exhibition in 2-3 months, was designed by leading designers of the United Kingdom, and all the stars of the country come to see these installations. Of course, the most anticipated visit will be the traditional visit of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Each exhibition is unique in its program and in order to choose what is relevant for oneself right now, one must have a high-quality basic education in the specialty. An understanding of trends, traditions and fashion, the development of creativity and the ability to work with projects of different areas and levels of complexity are brought up through constant practice and its combination with theoretical and technical training: this is the system that is used when teaching landscape design at IDS-Petersburg.

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