Here’s What’s Happening in October

Saturday, October 1 10:00 am – 3:30 pm – Rain or Shine! 4th Annual Subaru Fall Festival at Greensgrow Farms Join Subaru and Organic Gardening at Greensgrow Farms for a celebration of fresh, local food, crafts and farm fun! If you are from out of town, get off the beaten tourist path and checkout Greensgrow [...]

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Design a Garden – Week 5 Soil Base

Savvy gardeners know one vital fact for having a healthy garden with happy plants: It’s the soil.   While it may not seem very sexy, the soil base and mulch that is used by the show is an important part of the finished polish of the show gardens. Just as your own garden looks better [...]

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Garden Show Welcomes New Exhibitors

 The planning is in full swing for the 2012 Northwest Flower & Garden Show, and that means many new exhibitors are signing up to show off their wares at the second largest garden show in the country – and the show with the greatest variety, depth and quality of any garden show. With over 350 [...]

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Design a Garden – Week 4 Plant Groups

  With the Pacific Northwest having an unseasonably warm September ( it’s about time!) it seems appropriate that the winner of the voting for the song was the Beatles “Here Comes the Sun.”   Between now and September 15 you can vote on plant groups to be used in the garden. The garden show is [...]

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Design a Garden – Week 3 Voting Begins

The Beatles and Led Zeppelin were victorious in the second week of voting for the garden show’s Design a Garden – a show garden designed by our website readers. It was very close – they only won by 1% of the vote!   Now designer Lloyd Glasscock of Looking Glass Design  has had the tough [...]

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