Now through – January 1 5 – 10 pm daily Garden d’Lights The enormously popular Garden d’Lights festival features over half a million lights which transform the Bellevue Botanical Garden into a blossoming winter wonderland. Inspired by plants found in Northwest gardens and gardens around the world, hundreds of volunteers have been busy making new [...]

Water is a precious resource, and today’s savvy, environmentally conscious gardeners know that truly good gardening is synonymous with conservation. We will have four seminars at the show that will teach you how you can get the most moisture for your moolah, thereby conserving both water and your money. There are many different ways to [...]

Now Canadian gardening fans have never had it easier making the annual trek to the Northwest Flower & Garden Show, to be held February 23 – 27, 2011, at the beautiful Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. O’Loughlin Trade Shows, producer of the garden show, has teamed up with Group Travel and the Crowne Plaza [...]

Karen Chapman is a container garden designer and owner of Le Jardinet.  Born in England, she grew up with an appreciation for the beauty of nature and the wonders of gardening, including growing food that can be harvested for culinary enjoyment. Karen shares a recipe that is easy enough for a child to make. If [...]

Pruning is one of those necessary evils of good garden maintenance. Do it incorrectly, and you risk creating an ugly, misshaped shrub or tree, or worse, and unhealthy one prone to diseases. Do it correctly, and you never really see the results – you only see the splendor of your shrubs, vines or trees, aging [...]

Adding the sound of water to your garden is a soothing way to mask unwanted neighborhood noises, and lend a tranquil ambience to any garden space. And using recycled materials in a creative fashion helps keep unwanted stuff from our landfills and is pretty much de rigueur these days. Now you can add a water [...]

Meghan Fuller is a landscape designer and maintenance manager with Rock Solid Landscapes in Seattle. Many of you may know her from the popular seminars that she teaches at Swansons Nursery.  Meghan will be speaking at the show on “The Details Make the Difference: Plant Marriages That Don’t End in Divorce,” on Friday, February 25 [...]

We have a number of seminars that focus on one kind of plant species, so if you are a fan of roses, hydrangeas, clematis, Pacific Coast Native Iris, Orchids, native plants, or lavender, be sure to plan your time at the show to catch the seminars that most interest you. We will be bringing you [...]

Kelly Dodson and Sue Milliken are bonafide plant geeks. As owners of Far Reaches Farm, a specialty nursery located in Port Townsend, Washington, this offers the perfect excuse to indulge their life-long passion for plants and combine it with a nursery retail and wholesale operation. Don’t try this at home!  It’s a lot of work [...]

Now avid gardeners in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon can ride in comfort and style to Seattle and enjoy two days of gardening nirvana at the 23rd annual Northwest Flower & Garden Show. O’Loughlin Trade Shows, producer of the garden show, has teamed up with Group Travel and the Crowne Plaza Hotel to offer a [...]