Cuddle Up to a Good Cause

Do you have a new family member in your near future? Now you can buy them our exclusive baby blanket and cuddle the new baby in softness. Pendleton Woolen Mills and the Northwest Flower & Garden Show have teamed up to offer an exclusive, limited edition “Counting Sheep” Eco-Wise Wool® baby blanket. The regular price [...]

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Here’s What’s Happening in December

December 1 – December 31, 2011 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 [...]

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Join us for the 2012 #NWFGS TWEETUP!

Join us for the 2012 Northwest Flower & Garden Show Tweetup, a special event for gardening and foodie enthusiasts active in the Twitterverse and blogosphere.   The @nwfgs hosted Tweetup will be held on Thursday, February 9, 2012 from 7:30 am – 9:00 am, just before the show opens to the public. Check-in from 7:30 [...]

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Enter to WIN – “All That Jazz” Grand Prize Drawing

  The garden show’s 2012 “All That Jazz” Grand Prize is in its last weeks before we pick a lucky winner – chosen from your votes in our “Design a Garden” feature on gardenshow.com.  Each time you vote you can enter to win. The more you vote, the better your chances! But you’d better hurry [...]

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Design a Garden – Week 8 Containers

Our 8th installment of “Design a Garden” gives you the chance to choose from 3 sets of containers to go on the patio of our “Here Comes the Sun” garden. Designer Lloyd Glasscock, of Looking Glass Design will fill these containers with lush plantings from Swansons Nursery working with John Stout of Terra Firma Hardscapes to build the show garden [...]

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Food for Thought – Eat Your Vegetables – Part 3

Still more speakers on the hot topic of edible gardening! You won’t want to miss a single one, but no matter what days you attend the show, you’ll find food for thought with these seminar speakers. And of course edibles also means fresh eggs, so we’ve even got seminars on keeping free-range chickens for those [...]

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Food for Thought: Eat Your Vegetables – Part 2

The entire seminar schedule is now posted on the garden show’s website (YAY!) and we hope you will like the newly redesigned look for the ease of reading. Click on a speakers’ name, and you’ll find their complete biography and more detailed seminar descriptions. Today we bring you the 2nd part of our seminar spotlight [...]

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Food for Thought: Eat Your Vegetables – Part 1

More and more people are exploring ways to use their gardening space to grow their own food. It’s fun, it’s healthy, it’s delicious. But what’s the best approach? How do you get started? Which edibles work best for our region? What about patio or balcony gardeners – is there hope for you to grow edibles? [...]

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Design a Garden – Week 7 Design Sketches

We’re now at the 7th installment of our “Design a Garden,” where our website readers are participating in the design of a spectacular show garden for the upcoming Northwest Flower & Garden Show. The theme will be based on the beloved Beatles song, “Here Comes the Sun.” Designer Lloyd Glasscock of Looking Glass Design has drawn up three [...]

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