A Northwest Flower and Garden Show Plant Peek

Windmill Nursery in nearby Sumner supplies and or stores plants for some of the designers participating in the NWFG Show each year.  Eager to see what we might find in some of the gardens, I sneaked (with permission, of course) past the Employees Only sign to take a peek.  In addition of a lot of hellebores and other plants in the cool house doing what they usually do this time of year here are some to the others.







A field of lavender?  Notice the fuchsias in the background?  They are huge standards.  I heard a rumor earlier in the season that there had been a call for roses in bloom as well.  Maybe in another house?  Maybe a change of plan?


And speaking of foliage, looks like someone will be using coleus.  There were huge grow lights above all of these plants in the warm house. to induce growth.  Will any of the vines bloom in time?  There were also quite a few large Bougainvillea in bloom.

I'm guessing it's our native Lysichiton americanus (Skunk Cabbage.)  Mine hasn't broken the surface of the soil yet.  Where might these be popping up at the show?


Going a bit further (The greenhouses are extensive) I found part of this year's crop of geraniums growing on in their four inch pots.

Seedlings.  Spring is only a month and half away and I'm hoping that our mild winter has no more frozen intervals!