NW Garden Show in Seattle

Anyone going to the PWN Garden Show in downtown Seattle this week/weekend? I'm going to go, just haven't figured out which day.

Gwen

I haven't been to a Flower and Garden Show since I was 12 years old. I have a sensory memory of walking in the doors to the show and being suddenly surrounded by moist air and the mingled smell of foliage and flowers, such a contrast to the frigid winter air outside. I was helping my grandfather along, as he was 87 and walking slowly. He loved the going to the flower show and wasn't going to miss it even though his health wasn't so good.
I looked up the Seattle show. It looks fun, but don't know yet if I'll be able to go. If I do, it would have to be on Saturday. Would love to go to a Cass Turnbull seminar on pruning, since I definitely need some timely instruction in that area.

I wanted to go badly this year, but things here did happen so I could. If you go give a nice full report.

Have fun.

D

I am planning to go on Thu, my business is slow and neighbor is offering her company and drive.
What information from the Show can be of interest for some of you?

Ah, i'd LOVE to go, but it's much too long a drive. You guys, while you're there, you might want to visit the new Sculpture Park! I've never been, but i'm eager to see it. Maybe a trip next fall .... here's some info ....

http://www.seattle.gov/parks/parkspaces/OlympicSculpturePark.htm

Safe passages, and take lots of pictures! :)

Gwendalou, I went and it lightened up my pockets a bit. I was focused on one area where I spent most of my money. Naylor Creek had some new shipments in from Japan and India that were knockouts. I bought 6 hardy orchids,of Calanthe, several Arasaema, the rhizome on A speciosum var. Magnificum weighed a couple of pounds, and 5 hardy ferns Pyrrosia, one has a veriagated leaf. so it was an experience. hostajim1

I decided not to go for that very reason. :( I have wanted to go so bad the entire 5 years we've lived here. Every year something comes up. Last year I was all set to go and then fell and injured myself and I wasn't able to go physically. I promised myself I'd go this year. Now my husband has been out of work for 4 months and I just can't afford anymore luxuries. I'm so bummed. I sure would like to see it.

I'm glad you went and had fun! I'll have to live vicariously.

Gwen

Gwen, maybe both our lives will be such next year that we can go - between my job and my elderly parents, I just don't seem to be able to fit much in. Here's hoping your dh finds work soon!!!

We are going this evening. A dinner before with friends and then a stroll through the gardens with over priced wine. Couldn't be better. Then off to the plant sales area to see what looks interesting. Planning on spending too much and then spending Sat potting them up in the greenhouse.

JB

Dang, now I'm really jealous.

Gwen

JB this is where lack of culture in Montana is painful. I miss 3 things of Greater Seattle, Puget Sound, Annual Garden Show and The Opera. Have fun and take lots of pictures of the water guns shooting into the air and landing on the distant ponds.

Just gaze out over Flathead Lake and pretend it's the Sound. I pretend the Sound is Flathead.

Gwen

I had a sailboat, and kayak and covered all areas of Puget Sound, Vancouver Island, Gulf Islands, and the San Juans before the crowds took over. I miss that smell of raw seaweed.

Murmer, I'm with you on the elderly parents, job and other family pulls on the time and heartstrings. My mom needs help this weekend, so I'm off to Olympia rather than the Garden Show. Maybe I'll stop in at a nursery there just to get a little garden fix, and buy a 4inch pot of something that won't break the budget.
Gwen, very tough to have an injury when you love to garden. I hope that you are healed now, and that the work situation gets better soon. On another subject, I think I offered some Queen Anne's Lace seedlings some time ago. They are starting to sprout up in my yard here and there now. I discovered that they don't pot up well when they are bigger. I'll try again to keep some alive, and try to get them to you somehow this year if you are still interested....or it might be easier to collect some seeds later in the season. those would be fairly easy to mail. My Fall this past year was too crazy to manage that.

Sofer, I was at Golden Gardens with my mom today and there were sailboats everywhere (many very small ones which appeared to be part of a club - there were 8 that stayed together all afternoon). But this one I saved just for you.

You are a kind person Murmur. Sailing in the winter is the best!

I attended the NW show Saturday afternoon. My poor DH....couldn't keep up with me. lol. This was my 2nd year attending the show, so I kinda learned the "Do's & Don'ts" (lol....so I think I did). It was just awesome to see color!!!! But, as soon as we got our tickets torn & hand stamped, I B-lined it to the Plant Market. I had to stop several times so that my DH could catch up with me, even had to call him on the cell. phone to find out where he was. I guess I should have "shared" my plan of action/attack" with him, huh?!?! lol. I went straight to Naylor Creek's booth/area. I FINALLY got my 'Touch of Class' & 'Rainforest Sunrise'. Also, purchased "Theo's Blue" & "Blue Chip" hosta, a fern and several sedum plants. I ended up really holding back on buying plants, to my surprise.

Boy! Lot's of hellobores galore! I love them, too, but since I had already spurged (is that a word?) on 2 Heronwoods double hellobores in Dec., I actually didn't buy any. There was a plant that I had never seen before, Bromeliad Queen's Tears, that was so beautiful in one of the display gardens. I couldn't find it at the show (for sale), but eBay has a couple of sellers that have it. I'm not too sure how bromeliads or air plants do in the NW.....Any info. would be appreciated.

Now, I can't wait for the Point Defiance Flower & Garden show (June).