How would you like special VIP front-row seats for some of the most popular speakers at the 2012 Northwest Flower & Garden Show? PLUS get a free, autographed copy of their books? You can if you stop by the Subaru display garden on the skybridge on the morning of each of these seminars for more [...]

Canadian gardeners who come to the US for the garden show know that they can’t leave home without their passport, and they can’t return home without their passport and their Washington State Department of Agriculture Phytosanitary Inspection Certification paperwork if they buy any plants. Whew! That sounds like a load of paperwork. But at the [...]

It’s one-stop shopping for all your gardening needs (and splurges) at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show. With over 300 Marketplace Exhibitors at the show, you’ll find everything you need. Here’s just a few of the many Exhibitors that have returned to the show year after year, bringing their beautiful art, home décor, nature-inspired jewelry [...]

“No! No! NO! I never, ever, ever win anything! Really!” Julie McCulley exclaimed when she was called to tell her that she is the Northwest Flower & Garden Show’s “All That Jazz” Grand Prize Winner.   Julie wins four tickets to the garden show, two nights lodging at the luxurious Seattle Sheraton Hotel (conveniently located [...]

The Association of Professional Landscape Designers, Washington Chapter (APLD-WA), is organizing FREE landscape design consultations at the 2012 Northwest Flower & Garden Show. This was such a popular service at the 2010 garden show that they are bringing it back next month.   Garden Show attendees have the opportunity to meet with landscape designers who are [...]

MEET JOE! Subaru Garden on the Skybridge Friday at 2:15 pm Saturday at 3:45 pm  The popular and energetic Joe Lamp’l travels all over the U.S. going to garden shows, but he confesses the Northwest Flower & Garden Show is his favorite show. “The people at the Northwest show are so friendly, the show gardens are [...]

Since it was first founded in 1989, the Northwest Flower & Garden Show has had a tradition of inviting three exceptional gardening pros to serve as Show Judges and Speakers. This year is no exception, with Stephen Orr, Garden Editor for Martha Stewart Living, Rosalind Creasy, groundbreaking author of Edible Landscaping, and Steve Aitken, editor [...]

Today we have Part 2 of our blog on the Northwest gardening celebs, friends and mentors we have grown to love over the years at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show (here’s Part 1).  Some of these gardening gurus have been speaking at the show since it first heralded spring back in 1989!   So [...]

The Northwest Flower & Garden Show’s extensive seminar program is one of the best in the world – a testimony to the countless plant addicts and gardening aficionados in the Pacific Northwest. Speakers from all over the nation flock to the show to share their wit and wisdom with our attendees.   But just as [...]

  The 2012 Northwest Flower & Garden Show will feature 26 awe-inspiring show gardens, and here is Part 2 on what to look for in the gardens when you visit February 8 – 12 at the Washington State Convention Center. If you missed it, here’s Part 1 posted earlier this week.   THE SOUNDS OF LIVING [...]