Saturdays through September 9:00 am – 6:00 pm Share Your Harvest Molbak’s for Hopelink Are you swimming in squash? Overdosing on onions? Bubbling over with blueberries? Tons of tomatoes (we wish…)? Share your harvest with the Hopelink food banks by dropping it off at Molbak’s, every Saturday in September. Here’s what to donate: Veggies: beans, [...]

  Well it’s official! Your “Design a Garden” votes are in, and the music genre is Rock ‘n Roll and the winning era of music was 1960 – 1990. Now designer Lloyd Glasscock, of Looking Glass Design has selected eight popular musical artists for you to choose from in our next week of voting. This [...]

The garden show announces our 2012 “All That Jazz” Grand Prize, with a new twist on how you can enter: the winner will be chosen from your votes in our new “Design a Garden” feature on gardenshow.com, a show garden designed based on your votes, which we launched August 18. (Week 1 voting has started, [...]

  Have you ever wondered about the countless design decisions that must go into creating a world-class garden show display garden? From the garden creator’s initial kernel of an idea, to the final building of the garden in 72 nerve-wracking intense hours, it is 9 months of planning, designing, recruiting, building, buying, forcing, pleading, sweating [...]

It was set to be a true summer day here in Seattle. The temperature might break 80° F! Now our out-of-town guests were chuckling over the locals’ excitement of such an occurrence (and gratefully relieved to cool off) but it is such a rare event for us here in the Pacific Northleft, we can’t help [...]

Day 2 dawned bright and early as I headed over to Jessi Bloom’s house for our carpool. Jessi’s little farm in the city is near my South Snohomish County house, and certainly has far more interesting life forms. I got to meet her chickens and her new little duck. Andrea and Jayme hopped in the [...]