ROBIN HAGLUND, GUEST BLOGGER Last night during the Arboretum Foundation fundraiser Arbor Eden event, I was able to grab a few moments with my friend and co-hort Theresa Loe, Associate Producer of Growing a Greener World TV (http://www.growingagreenerworld.com/), founder of Living Homegrown Fresh® (http://www.gardenfreshliving.com/), Master Canner, and well, so much more. We’ve been hearing a [...]

MARTY WINGATE, GUEST BLOGGER Each year, garden creators are offered the chance to decorate and hide a certain object somewhere within their displays. It’s a fun game for both kids and adults; this year, you’ll be looking for piggy banks. But in addition to the pigs, you’ll find another theme running through the displays: sustainable [...]

COLLEEN MIKO, CPH, GUEST BLOGGER The first day of set up for the Northwest Flower & Garden Show is always a highlight of my year.  The energy of 20+ plus teams of garden creators starting on the displays they have been planning since last summer is overwhelmingly positive.  “It’s finally here”, they are thinking, or [...]

  The past few years, when I would go to the Washington State Convention Center during move-in of  the Northwest Flower & Garden Show, I always had one primary objective – not to get run over by a front loader or trip on a piece of lumber and face plant into a pile of compost. [...]

  Everyone familiar with the Northwest Flower & Garden Show knows that for years the all-important Show Guide is printed in the Seattle Times Pacific Northwest magazine the Sunday before the show opens. This year that day would be Sunday, February 20th. So you’ll be surprised when you open the magazine and find the Show [...]

This year garden show attendees can get a taste for the tropical Hawaiian Islands courtesy of Alaska Airlines – just by visiting the show garden. Alaska is creating a lush green garden in the show’s South Lobby that should make you feel like you just landed on Kauai.  Look for a detailed wood carving depicting [...]

Joe Lamp’l, Host and Executive Producer of the national public television show “Growing a Greener World,” doesn’t let any grass grow under his feet! Each week he covers the latest in organic/sustainable gardening, eco-friendly living and DIY garden projects, while Chef Nathan Lyon cooks up a weekly recipe with fresh, seasonal produce. Many garden show [...]

Have you ever wondered how some of the new plants you see in nurseries became the latest must-have plant for Northwest gardeners? Especially after you read the plant tag that indicates the plant is from China, South Africa, or New Zealand? How do these plants make their way into cultivation? And will they be hardy [...]

Subaru of America has gotten into gardening in a big way, and embracing the 2011 theme at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show – “Once Upon a Time…Spectacular Gardens with Stories to Tell.”   Subaru is creating two breathtaking gardens for the 2011 show. One, located on the scenic skybridge at the Washington State Convention [...]

In our effort to bring you all the news and events of the Northwest Flower & Garden Show, we have enlisted to help of four well-known authors/bloggers who all volunteered to serve as Guest Bloggers on The Garden Show Blog. We’re turning them loose at the show, even during move-in, to give you their take [...]