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The Northwest Flower and Garden Show part two, The Sky Bridge
One of my favorite parts of the Northwest Flower and Garden Show is the vignettes on the sky bridge of the convention center. These small slices of beauty allow folks to exercise their creativity...
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Northwest Flower and Garden Show Floral Competition
It's always fun to check out the floral competition at the show. I am always glad that I don't have to judge any part of the show. Comparing apples to oranges (sometimes asparagus?) and coming up with...
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Northwest Flower and Garden Show - More of Those Great Display Gardens.
Here are some images of gardens that I didn't get images of for my first post and gardens that I wanted to explore further. ART-itecture for Urban Wildlife was o.k. from the front but had some...
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Time for some Winter Magic!
You may recall my posts about Judy Hook's garden full of her own unique artwork here. Recently, we had the opportunity to once again visit her garden, enjoy her previous work and see some new pieces...
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Flowers for My Blog Valentines!
Twelve Ikebana arrangements, to be exact,  from a show by Ikebana International Seattle Chapter (website here.) at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show. I am totally ignorant of the rules and art of...
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Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day February 2014
Even though it's still winter, spring is so close I can taste it! This long weekend is traditionally a time for me to get out and get going on the winter projects I've been putting off. Because we've...
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Foliage Follow - Up a Day Late
Sincere apologies to the fabulous Pam Penick, host of Foliage Follow Up for starting my post with a flower and for talking about plants that are inside for the winter. The rain has been coming down...
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Interesting California Neighborhood Ideal Spot for Druid Ritual.
By the last garden tour of the last day of the Garden Bloggers' Fling in San Francisco, we were all feeling a little overwhelmed by having seen so many incredible gardens and awesome plants.  The last...
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A Winter Visit to Alpine Nursery
Judy Hook called me a couple of months ago to tell me that she'd decided to start making garden art to sell. I was thrilled as I'd greatly admired her pieces in her garden which you can see here. A...
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Bedrock, Where Recycling is an Art!
Seeing these fun glass blobs and other fused glass treasures in the Bedrock space at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show, and reading Linda's post here, reminded me that it was about time for a visit...
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The Northwest Flower and Garden Show - So Many Vendors, So Little Time!
While everyone who attends the NWFGS enjoys the show, some people are especially fond of the seminars, others favor the demonstration gardens, and some revel in the shopping bonanza to be found in the...
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Tough Love?
Last weekend, while driving from one nursery to another across town, we took a different route than usual. It's nice when your travel companion is so accustomed to you hitting the brakes and pulling...
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Slimed!
 Giant squid on the beach?    Pile of smelly seaweed?Remains of an alien from outer space?No, none of those. Rather, this is what happened to my giant Zantedeschia aethiopica when we got our first...
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And Now, The End is Near...
The end of the Garden Bloggers' Fling in San Francisco, that is. Â On the final evening of the fling, there was a reception at Flora Grubb Gardens. Â Before we take one more fond look back at that...
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Visiting a Couple of Great Seattle Nurseries
Another Saturday with heavy rain and wind that make working in the garden not really an option had us venturing to Seattle to visit a couple of great nurseries there, one I'd visited before and one...
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At Least it isn't Snowing!
As I write this, the rain outside is coming down sideways, the wind bending tree branches and making the windows of my old house rattle. Muttering something about being tired of winter to myself, it...
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All Too Soon It Ended - Visiting Flora Grubb Gardens
The climate (USDA zones 10a and 10b but it seldom gets horribly hot in the summer) in the San Francisco Bay area allows for a wide variety of plants to be grown out of doors. After three days of...
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