Over the past 24 years the Northwest Flower & Garden Show has become an eagerly anticipated tradition for winter weary gardeners. Families with young children flock to the show’s PlayGarden for the fun exploration and giggles from kids learning about nature’s wonders. Plant addicts mark their calendars months in advance and make a beeline to our [...]

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 [...]

The Northwest Flower & Garden Show will be bringing winter weary show attendees an extra dose of cheer with their 2012 show theme – A Floral Symphony – and the musical events they have scheduled throughout the garden show. Festive South Lobby concerts, all FREE with admission, will be four times each day, with a wide [...]

“A Floral Symphony,” the Northwest Flower & Garden Show extravaganza arriving February 8 – 12, 2012, covers six acres of the Washington State Convention Center. It has 23 spectacular show gardens, 3 “Living It Up” balcony gardens, 16 Container Exhibitors, over 300 garden-related Marketplace exhibitors, 116 seminars, 45 musical performances, a “Funky Junk” exhibit by high-school students, [...]

The beloved song “Rockin’ Robin” is the inspiration behind the new PlayGarden at the 2012 Northwest Flower & Garden Show. The show has teamed up again with the folks at Seattle Children’s PlayGarden to design and build this popular new feature. Children of all ages – and especially their parents – will love the creative ways [...]

The Northwest Flower & Garden Show’s musical theme, “A Floral Symphony,” will be showcased throughout the show, in the display gardens, and a musical stage in the South Lobby. Even the youngest budding gardeners can enjoy musical tunes just right for them, as we present an outstanding lineup of children’s entertainers that are sure to [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Colleen Miko, CPH, shares this spicy recipe that was given to her by her cousin, Traci Prendergast, who is co-owner of Vesta Flatbread in Emeryville, California, and who has lived and traveled extensively in South America.   Here’s Colleen’s take on this unusual sauce: “Unlike most chimichurri sauces I have sampled which are green, like [...]

Piggies are coming to the Northwest Flower & Garden Show! Piggybanks, that is, as part of our children’s Treasure Hunt. The Treasure Hunt is a great way to engage young children in viewing the Display Gardens. While children are engaged finding hidden piggies in each garden, adults can look at the plants, design, accessories, water [...]