It’s the age-old question: Which comes first, the plants, or the garden? So many of us begin our gardening journey by putting a few plants into our outdoor spaces and thinking we’re done. Then, faster than the spread of Euphorbia Robbiae, our plant lust addiction grabs a hold of our senses, and we find ourselves [...]

Milwaukee’s favorite gardener, Melinda Myers, claims “A cook I am not, but I love to grow the ingredients for my favorite meals. And when summer arrives and I can pick the herbs and veggies right from my garden, cooking becomes less of a chore. And the results taste much better! This is the dish I [...]

Early next year, during five typically cold and gloomy days in February, the Washington State Convention Center in downtown Seattle will spring to life like a Tim Burton movie set. Twenty-two groups of garden designers and landscapers will be creating dramatic show gardens, most using a beloved book or fairy tale as the source of their [...]

Wednesday, January 12 6:45 pm “Gardening Where We Live: A Pacific Northwest Convergence” Lucy Hardiman Lucy Hardiman, author, teacher, garden designer and owner of Perennial Partners in Portland, will discuss horticultural convergence of cutting edge nurseries and inventive designers that produce the great gardens of the Northwest. She will illustrate this convergence by showing how [...]

Zsofia Pasztor is the owner of Innovative Landscape Technologies. She knows all about plants that grow well with little water, so she’s a big fan of Sorrel, a perennial herb. Here she shares a recipe for Savory Sorrel Tart, similar to a quiche and a wonderful lunch or dinner entrée. To Zsofia Sorrel, which is [...]

Good gardening means not only keeping plants, it’s keeping soil. And knowing how to evaluate your soil and how to amend it is an important first step in developing a beautiful, healthy garden. Then there are the plants themselves. Many people want to start their plants off from seed. But how do you go about [...]

One favorite area of the garden show is the ‘Garden Resource Center’, where all the gardening educational organizations are located. This is a wonderful way to check out the many benefits of joining a location organization, see what they each have to offer, and discover which organizations share your interests and passions.   In 2011 [...]

I feel so fortunate to have a high-quality nursery about two miles from my house. When the owners of the former Wileywood Nursery retired, I really missed having a neighborhood nursery so close at hand. Then nursery industry veterans Jenny Gunderson and Bill Raynolds took the plunge and bought the nursery, fulfilling their dream of [...]

Join us for something completely new on the seminar stages as five gardening luminaries get together to talk about the growing trend of edible gardening. This is a totally spontaneous and ad-libbed conversation hosted by Lorene Edwards Forkner, popular lecturer and author of Growing Your Own Vegetables, along with guest stars Joe Lamp’l, host of [...]

 Once upon a time, in the Emerald City, at the far northleft corner of the world called USA, there was an event so magical, it seemed like a fairytale to all who came. Flowers bursting with colorful blooms in the middle of cold, dreary February and gardens overflowing with fruits and vegetables.  Huge boulders and [...]