Saturday, October 2 10:00 am Fall Planting Marianne Binetti Edibles, Lawns and more! Marianne Binetti, a Seattle gardener favorite, will be at Swansons as we leap into the pleasures of fall gardening, the green way! Find out what edibles you can grow – and harvest – during the fall and winter, as well as what can [...]

If you’re in the market for some beautiful blooming bulbs (and who isn’t?) stay away from the big box stores, put away those catalogs, log off the internet and head down to the region’s finest bulb sale – the Arboretum Foundation’s Annual Fall Bulb & Plant Sale, Sunday, October 3 and Monday, October 4, from [...]

Now that summer is officially over (and many will argue that it never really arrived this year) it’s time to get started on all those well-intentioned gardening plans. Molbak’s has some seminars tomorrow that will get you off to a good start with your fall planning – and planting – schemes. It all starts on [...]

There’s a lot to do in the Northwest the weekend of September 18 – 19, so here’s a few things to keep you busy: The Seattle plant sale of the fall season is the Northwest Horticultural Society’s Fall Plant Sale. I was there today as a “Roving Holder” volunteer (or considering how many shoppers brought [...]

The Washington State Convention Center is just a cavernous empty space when the show production staff and garden creators begin their magic. The show gardens are created in only 90 hours, beginning Friday evening, with the teams often working around the clock. All of the gardens must be completed, cleaned up, and vacated by 12:00 [...]

People are always asking, “What’s the theme?”  They’re talking about the theme for the garden show. Believe it or not, for the past few years there really hasn’t been an annual “theme.”  But that’s changing for 2011, as the Northwest Flower & Garden Show brings you “Once Upon a Time…Spectacular Gardens with Stories to Tell.” [...]

Labor Day has come and gone, in all its gray, rainy glory here in the Pacific Northwest. (I live in the ‘convergence zone’ so if it’s going to rain, it’s always right over my house.) It looks like the last summer days are behind us, and now it’s time to start thinking about what we [...]

September is here and that means the acclaimed Northwest Horticultural Society’s Fall Plant Sale is right around the corner. Right now you should be outside with notepad and pen, making notes of all the plants that didn’t thrill you this past season, and need to be replaced with something that works better for you. Once [...]

Join the good folks at Seattle Tilth for the ultimate family garden festival, Saturday, September 11 from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm for their annual Harvest Fair. It will be held at the Good Shepherd Center in Wallingford neighborhood, at 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle. Seattle Tilth will be offering education and entertainment on just [...]