Subaru of America is not your ordinary car company. Did you know that their Indiana manufacturing plant is a Zero Landfill Plant? This means ALL waste is recycled or turned into electricity. And the site is designated by the National Wildlife Federation as a Backyard Wildlife Habitat – over 800 acres serve as a home [...]

Don’t forget that the Northwest Flower & Garden Show’s SHOW GUIDE will be in your Seattle Times – both home delivery and news stand editions – wrapped around the paper, on Monday, February 6th!   The good news is this change from printing it in the Sunday Seattle Times Pacific Northwest magazine allows us to print [...]

Like any mildly obsessive gardener that moves a plant only a few feet to get the garden just right, the team at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show has MOVED the Ticket Office to the 4th Floor North Lobby. If you go looking for the ticket office in the usual street-level location on Convention Center Place, you [...]

Many of you were thwarted in your efforts to get to the garden show last February. Mother Nature wasn’t very kind to the folks who adore her! So you didn’t get to enjoy the new location for our three main seminar rooms – The Conference Center at the Washington State Convention Center. (Or, for those [...]

Most people know about the awards (Gold, Silver, Bronze or Crystal) awarded to the show gardens by our main Show Judges – Stephen Orr, Rosalind Creasy and Steve Aitken this year – along with the coveted Founder’s Cup Award (the Oscar of the garden show) and the American Horticulture Society’s Environmental Award, which goes to [...]

When excited garden show attendees first stride through the doors of the South Lobby of the Washington State Convention Center, they are immediately stopped in their tracks by the elegant display of floral fantasy created by some of the region’s best floral designers. These are definitely not your gramma’s nosegay bouquets – these floral artists [...]

The Northwest Flower & Garden Show is a wonderful way to spend the day with the entire family. The show wants young children to learn about the wonder of nature around them, to unplug from their electronic toys and dig the outdoors! So we’ve created a special place just for the kids. It’s called the [...]

Garden art and accessories are a big way to add some personality and pizzazz to your garden. But you don’t need to break the bank for “real” art. Here are some teriffic do-it-yourself projects that you can do on your own – especially after you see these seminars by these creative and crafty speakers.   [...]

If you have an 8-ft. by 6-ft. space to create a little slice of outdoor living heaven, what would you do with it? How would you make it livable, inviting and give it some panache to reflect your personality? Stumped? For ideas, you need look no further than the creative genious behind the Northwest Flower & [...]

As gardeners we have a passion – and a responsibility – for sharing our little plot of Earth with the wildlife that lives there too. From the beloved ‘flying flowers’ such as birds, bees and butterflies, down to the microscopic creatures we cannot even see, we should all make an effort to create beneficial habitat not only for [...]