You Know It’s ‘Officially’ Spring in Seattle…

In case you didn’t know, the Northwest Flower and Garden Show is going on NOW at the Convention Center in Seattle.  I look forward to this event all winter (and all year for that matter).  And really can’t imagine a better way to kick off spring than looking at display gardens, shopping for garden stuff and buying new plants!

For those of you not living in the Seattle area (since that’s only excuse for not attending yourself), I’ll do my best to capture the display gardens in a post following the show. I’ll also share some of my favorite vendors, like Glass Gardens NW in booth #1104 (this is where I get my glass pond floats)!

For the folks attending or working at the show, I’ll be wondering around all day Saturday.  I should be pretty easy to spot in my new black Hunter boots.  If that’s not easy enough, here are the seminars I plant to attend:

Hood Room

• Plant Em’ and Forget Em’ at 12:15 PM
  Easy Care & Rewarding Plants for Every Garden
  Nicholas Staddon: Director of New Plant Introductions, Monrovia Growers

Rainier Room

• Succulent Container Gardens at 2 PM
  Learn to Create Elegant, Easy-Care Containers
  Debra Lee Baldwin: Photojournalist & author, Designing with Succulents

• Secrets of Success with Growing Veggies at 3:15 PM
  Eat Your Vegetables in Every Season
  Ed Hume: Host, ‘Gardening in America’ & ‘Ask the Expert’

• Understanding Basic Design Principles at 5:45 PM
  Getting Started on Good Garden Design
  Vanessa Gardner Nagel: Designer & owner, Seasons

For more information on the show, visit the official site at http://www.gardenshow.com/seattle/index/.

See you at the show!