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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 & [...]

“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, [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

  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 [...]

Once again a prestigious group of garden designers will be pulling out all the stops when they design and build 26 fantastic show gardens for the 24th annual Northwest Flower & Garden Show, to be held February 8 – 12, 2012 at the Washington State Convention Center.   The garden show theme, “A Floral Symphony,” is inspiring the [...]