The Northwest Flower and Garden Show, Another Sneak Peek. Dig!

The amount of planning, ingenuity, and hard work that goes into making the Northwest Flower and Garden Show such a grand experience always amazes me.  On Sunday Afternoon, after work, I went to Vashon Island to visit one of my favorite nurseries and to see the work they'd done on the structure for their booth for this year's show.  The owners, Sylvia and Ross have come up with another amazing creation!   Weaving black steel strips between rusty metal grid yields a beautiful effect.  Ross says that eventually the black paint will wear off and the strips will rust as well.  How cool will that be?

This had been built and they were taking it apart already in preparation of loading it up and rebuilding it at the show.


Like everything at dig, the structure is amazing but the focus will be plants and containers.  Here's a glimpse of some of what will be offered for sale in that woven wonder.  I already see one or two things that need to come home with me!

Sylvia has always carried tillandsias but it seemed like there were more varieties at the nursery than I remembered seeing before.  They're such cool plants and Sylvia said that she liked the fact that you could just plop them in anywhere "like jewelry."

I wish I'd taken more pictures of the wide variety of tillandsias but I was too busy admiring them (and putting them into my pile!

This stunning Yucca elephantipes 'Jewel' is only hardy to about 27 degrees but it would be a great indoor/outdoor plant!  I don't know if this will make it to the show.





I know that at least one Begonia luxurians is going on the truck!  Aren't those large lush leaves gorgeous?



Some dolt didn't remember that Arbutus menziesii is the name of our native Madrone, one of his favorite trees.  Isn't that foliage spectacular?


Just wait to see the cute Esther pots that Sylvia's planted for the show!  My camera lens was still recovering from coming into the moist warmth so my images didn't turn out well.

So I'll tell you that they're planted with Lithops which I find interesting but planted in shallow Esther pots, they make a statement like you wouldn't believe.





What's weirder looking than Euphorbia flanaganii?  Euphorbia flanaganii with partial fasciation!  this plant can't decide what it wants to be when it grows up.




Burlap bag full of bromeliad anyone?   What a great way to sell these, especially at the show where carrying pots of dirt can become cumbersome!  One of these is already hanging in my greenhouse but it would be happier with company!








But context is everything and Sylvia can display things so seductively that one might be jumping at the chance to buy a dandelion!