Today I switch my Social Media Manager hat to my Seminar Manager hat as I report that the entire seminar schedule is now on the garden show website! With 125 seminars on four stages over five days, the Northwest Flower & Garden Show has the largest roster of horticulture seminars of any garden show in the [...]
Robin Haglund, CPH, sent me this recipe for Huckle-Bear-y Honey Muffins along with a guest blog about bees and honey. She and Corky Luster, owner of Ballard Bees, will be speaking at the show about “The Sweetest Buzz! From Politics to Plants – Keeping Bees in the Urban Garden” on Sunday, February 27 at 2:45 [...]
The Northwest Flower & Garden Show’s 2011 theme, “Once Upon a Time…Spectacular Gardens with Stories to Tell,” challenges our inventive show garden creators to interpret a beloved storybook or classic novel in their imaginative show gardens. They are well into the design process, and they are rising to the challenge! Books also serve as the [...]
Bob and Iris Jewett, owners of Wilberton Pottery, have been a fixture at the garden show since 1995. Their creations of fine tiles have graced many homes and gardens and – full disclosure – I have two tiles decorating the new outdoor cook top structure my husband and I built three years ago, and a [...]
Teresa O’Connor (aka @SeasonalWisdom on Twitter) writes about gardening, local foods and seasonal folklore for online and print publications as well as on her blog http://nwf.gs/d9HAQX. Teresa co-authored Grocery Gardening: Planting, Preparing and Preserving Fresh Foods (Cool Springs Press, 2010) where she reported on nutritional research about produce, and provided tips for purchasing fresh foods locally. [...]
From attracting birds, bees and butterflies, to making inner peace with slugs and snails, the garden show has many seminars about sharing your garden with wildlife – even chickens! Here’s a sampling, and for the full seminar schedule go to www.gardenshow.com. One of the joys of gardening is creating a beautiful, natural space that you, your [...]
To Barbra Sanderson’s eye, almost anything in the garden can become a work of glass art. She studies nature’s patterns and shapes so she can interpret them into the unique, one-of-a-kind sculptural pieces of blown glass. She has created daisies, mushrooms, birds, carrots, radishes, yams, and pomegranates, and she’s experimenting with peas in a pod [...]
October 15-17 & 22-24 10am-3pm MsK Nursery’s Fall Tree & Shrub Sale Do you have a planting project to do this fall? Fall is the best time to plant trees and shrubs in the Northwest, and we are here to help. Join us for MsK Nursery’s two-week long Fall Tree and Shrub Sale this October. [...]
DigginFood.com creator Willi Evans Galloway shares this quick and easy recipe for healthy and delicious slow roasted tomatoes. Willi is presenting three seminars at the 2011 Garden Show: “Love Your Vegetables! The Best Vegetable Varieties for the Pacific Northwest” (February 23, 9:30 am in the Hood Room); “Salad to Go: Edible Gardening for the Small-Space [...]
Just what is “guerrilla gardening?” No, it’s not gardening with another species with DNA similar to humans (a species capable of spreading compost for hours and hours – if they are not rolling in it). Besides, that’s spelled “gorilla.” Guerrilla gardening is a playful term to describe the illicit greening of barren or [...]
