It’s hard to believe summer has finally arrived and is in full swing. I’ve been weeding, weeding, weeding, and watering as sparingly as possible, trying to practice some tough love.  I’ve got a stack of bulb catalogs awaiting my browsing pleasure, and the fall plant sales are on my calendar. But best of all – [...]

I am having a great time at the Show and I hope that you are as well. I’ve met new people, seen old friends, asked and listened to the many comments about the possible show closing. I met a couple (one of many from what they tell me) who travel from Alaska every year for [...]

I am posting live from the Northwest Flower and Garden Show this evening where I am most happy to announce that attendance is up. I first suspected this when the closest parking garages were full. The very nice thing about the convention center is that is has found a way to link to many garages [...]

Can you feel it in the air? I can. THE SHOW starts tomorrow! Yahoo! While you are there, please check out the show garden from Greenstone Designs. I was honored recently to chat with Maggie Green from Greenstone. She is an amazing lady! Flora-What do you think about the show theme this year of “sustainability”? [...]

How to Build an Award Winning Show Garden, Part 2. Follow Steve Haizlip and the team at New Leaf Creations as they build an award winning garden for the Northwest Flower and Garden Show.

Join us as we follow the building of an award-winning Show Garden for the Northwest Flower and Garden Show!

By Josh Christianson, age 12 on Feb. 27 Guest Columnist Fun for Kids One of the things I did was a scavenger hunt. It was a fun little way to see all the exhibits. You had to look for coconuts in each exhibit and write down how many there were. If you do the scavenger [...]

By Deborah Burns Guest Columnist The transforming magic that happens every February at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show helps to warm me up for the upcoming season of gardening and makes me dream BIG with ideas for my garden. Okay, so my dreams and ideas are usually unrealized by mid-summer as life, chores (and [...]

By Janet Singler Guest Columnist I got to the show at 10:00 a.m. I like to park across the street at the 7th and Pike garage, mostly because I always have trouble finding my car at the end of a long day in the maze of the convention center parking… Display Gardens I went to [...]