Northwest Flower & Garden Festival

10/12/2020

Due to the current limitations on large public gatherings and the continuing uncertainty brought about by the COVID-19 Pandemic, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival, scheduled for February 17-21, 2021 at the Washington State Convention Center.

Though we have been working diligently with local health authorities and our facilities to develop a safe action plan for a return to events, the current climate of the pandemic is not conducive to the operation of consumer and trade shows in the city of Seattle at this time.

Stay tuned to our feed over the coming months for updates.

We're committed to creating safe, successful and vibrant marketplaces for our consumers and exhibitors alike, and will do so in a virtual manner until the day when we can all meeting in person again!

03/14/2020

During this critical time in the garden industry, our local nurseries, artists, authors, florists, and mom and pop businesses have suffered a wave of canceled events and lost stability. PLEASE support small businesses and self employed people in this vital spring busy season. Leave a comment with how we can support you or your favorite business below!!
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Repost from @editwhidbey on Instagram 🙏

03/09/2020

A big round of applause to our City Living award winners! 🏆👏 Best Plant Material awarded to Zenith Holland Gardens, Best Design awarded to digs inside and out, and People’s Choice awarded to Urban Earth! Congratulations to our winners and all of our participants in these beautiful, inspiring displays! 🏙🌱

03/07/2020

We are proud to showcase a variety of exhibitors at the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival! Congratulations to our award winners! 🏆👌 Best Small Display goes to Revelaré, Best Medium Display goes to The Plant Farm, Best Large Display goes to Ballard Reuse, and Best in Show goes to Mutual Materials. Well done!
Learn more about our prestigious awards here: https://gardenshow.com/show-features/awards

03/05/2020

THANK YOU from the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival team! 🌿🌷🌸💐
We are lucky to host so many talented people in the garden & horticulture industry from across the globe.
To all of our exhibitors, garden creators, attendees, sponsors and speakers: we couldn't do this without you. Thank you. 🙏

𝐒𝐞𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫, 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟏𝟕-𝟐𝟏, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏.

The Northwest Flower & Garden Festival is an event that takes a full year to execute. Without the hard work of the following people, this show wouldn't blossom into reality:
Jeff Swenson - Show Manager
Courtney Goetz - Operations Manager
Jill Kivett - Regional Vice President | Sponsorship
Lloyd Glasscock - Gardens Coordinator
Linda Knudsen - Exhibit Sales Coordinator
Greenane Davison – Exhibit Sales Coordinator
Janet Endsley - Seminar & Judging Manager
Michelle Derbes - Show | Office Administrator
Brian Faker - Temporary Staff Coordinator
Matt McClane - Production Staff Coordinator

2020 Display Garden "Come Out And Play!" by Fancy Plants Gardens, Inc. / Susan Browne Landscape Design

03/03/2020

Thank you Petals & Blooms! Can't wait to see you next year

This was our second year at the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival in Seattle & oh my my goodness it was AMAZING. It was such a spectacular experience and a perfect way to kick off SPRING!! 🌷☀️ Thank you to all the friendly faces who have introduced themselves these past few days in Seattle.

We will see you next year for the 2021 Northwest Flower & Garden Festival!! February 17 - 21, 2021

03/02/2020

Did you catch Container Wars this year? The lightweight self-watering containers are thanks to Gardener's Supply Company! Check them out here: gardeners.com/buy/outdoor-planters/patio-planters/

Thank you Gardener's!

And that's a wrap at the 2020 Northwest Flower & Garden Festival! We chatted with thousands of gardeners of all ages and from all countries, handed out 2000 coupons, gave away $50 gift cards to five lucky winners, stood on our feet for 5 days straight (thank goodness for our Recycled Rubber Mulch Mats, they saved our backs!), drooled over fabulous flower fashions, hung out with friends Charlie Nardozzi, Laura from Garden Answer , Toni Gattone, and Marianne Benneti — and are going home tired, inspired, and ready for gardening season! Thank you Seattle - see you next year!

03/01/2020

Garden Answer

Oh my! The Northwest Flower & Garden Festival was SO good!!! We’ve been so super busy over the past couple days that I haven’t had time to post any of the gorgeous inspiration we’ve been able to see, so here’s the first bit! Mannequins completely dolled up with fresh flowers! @fleursdevilles what an amazing, and over-the-top gorgeous job you did on your exhibit! Breathtaking! ❤️

02/29/2020

Urban Earth

This years Northwest Flower & Garden Festival display pays tribute to Alice Eastwood, a self-taught botanist and women of science. Please enjoy “Alice’s Woodland”, designed by Juli Bertucci and the other strong females at our women owned business.

02/29/2020

Nature Perfect Landscape and Design

Here is Nature Perfect's 2020 Northwest Flower and Garden Festival Display Garden. We are pleased to say we are Gold medal recipients! Come and check it out. The show goes on until Sunday in the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle.

02/28/2020

We have a surprise substituion! ⭐ The incomparable Richie Steffen, Director/Curator of the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden and co-author of The Plant Lover’s Guide to Ferns will be speaking on “Fabulous Ferns for Northwest Gardens” today at 11:30am in the Rainier Room. Knowing Richie you'll have the chance to learn about lots of other amazing plant varieties as well! 🌿🌱

02/28/2020

😍🌸 we cannot wait to see the magic of the Headmaster tomorrow!

【Event – 生け花✕テクノロジー】
Yesterday we witnessed the never-before-seen collaboration between the traditional art of Ikebana and cutting-edge technology from the Microsoft HoloLens 2. Enjoy the breathtaking and magical world created by Mr. Hiroki Ohara, headmaster of the world-renowned いけばな小原流　Ohara School of Ikebana.

Headmaster Ohara will create traditional Ikebana arrangements at the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival tomorrow, February 29. Come join us! Tickets to the festival can be purchased here: https://gardenshow.com/tickets

02/28/2020

Don't forget to VOTE for your FAVORITE Display Garden and City Living balcony - the winner will receive the coveted People's Choice award!
Cast your ballot at gardenshow.com/vote

02/28/2020

Welcome Uprising Seeds to the Festival! They have a beautiful art print with different pollen colors in the back of their booth.

If you are in the Seattle area, come on down and say hi at the NW Flower and Garden Show at the Seattle convention center through Sunday. We had a great day today meeting long-time customers in person and chatting seeds with folks. It’s been a while since our farmers market produce-slinging days and our business has shifted to less face to face contact over the years, so we really enjoy the opportunity to get out and meet real live people when we can. We’ll be here 9am-8pm through Saturday and 9-6 on Sunday. Hope to see you there! We’ll have almost the entire catalog available throughout the event, booth 2427.

02/28/2020

King County Wastewater Treatment Division

King County Resource Recovery is at the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival!
Come visit us at Booth #2615 and get some free compost! Event runs through Sunday, March 1 at the Washington State Convention Center.

02/28/2020

Ali Bradley

Learned about sustainable gardening and the best plants for our planet (and our Orcas) this morning at the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival 🌿🌷🌻♥️ A big thank you to everyone for the hard work today!

02/28/2020

Raising the Bar Northwest

Come out and play! Let’s make cocktail bitters. On the Main Stage Fri. 5pm or Sat. 5pm at the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival 🌺
Learn the magic of infusion.🧚‍♀️

🌼 GARDEN-to-GLASS 🥃 DIY Bitters Workshop. Start the weekend creating. Workshop ticket includes pass to show -> $45
—> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/garden-to-glass-diy-bitters-workshop-tickets-91170167425

02/27/2020

Ciscoe Morris is stepping in as a surprise substitution! ⭐ Learn from Ciscoe today at 3:30 pm in the Hood Room in his seminar “Bugs – The Hidden World in the Garden.” 🐞🐛 You can also catch Ciscoe Friday at 9:30 in the Hood Room as he shares his favorite plants. Which ones will make the cut? 🌿🌱 Grab your copy of “Oh La La!” and get it signed after the seminars. 📚 Lastly, Ciscoe and 6 of his friends will face off on Saturday at 4:30 pm in “Garden Jeopardy Game Show Round 2: The Rematch!” Oh la la! Don't miss your chance to learn from this legendary gardener.

02/27/2020

KING 5 Evening

KING 5 Evening

Gorgeous floral art mannequins are brand new to the festival this year -- each handcrafted using dozens of flowers and plant materials 🌻🌸🌼🏵️🌹 #k5evening

02/27/2020

Love these ultra-creative projects from Dunn DIY. Visit booth 707 at the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival to see these DIY creations in person!

diy.dunnlumber.com/projects/2020-seattles-northwest-flower-garden-festival-guide

02/27/2020

The 2020 Northwest Flower & Garden Festival is now open! 🌸🌿🌺

It only happens once a year and it's here! The 2020 Northwest Flower & Garden Festival is now open! 🌸🌿🌺

Join us as we celebrate “Spring Fever” with over 30 display gardens, 100 free seminars and workshops, and thousands of treasures in the garden marketplace. The Northwest Flower & Garden Festival is the best annual event to gather ideas and inspiration for beautiful living spaces. Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or just starting to dig in the dirt, there’s something for everyone!

Show hours are Wednesday thru Saturday 9 am to 8 pm and 9 am - 6pm Sunday. Don't miss it!!

02/26/2020

Christianson's Nursery & Greenhouse

As the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival opens its doors tomorrow, John and Toni Christianson, and the Christianson's staff are placing the finishing touches on this year's display garden, "Hill Top Farm."

Their interpretation is derived from inspired travels to Beatrix Potter's Hill Top Farm located in the Lake District near Sawrey, England.

We hope that your imaginations will leap through our garden as Beatrix's little animal tales leaped through your hearts.

Read about our set-up and behind the scenes answers from Toni Christianson here https://www.christiansonsnursery.com/events/northwest-flower-garden-festival/

Photo by Evan Smith

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02/25/2020

Admission for ages 12 and under is FREE! 🌿🌵

SHOW HOURS:
Wednesday 9 am - 8 pm
Thursday 9 am - 8 pm
Friday 9 am - 8 pm
Saturday 9 am - 8 pm
Sunday 9 am - 6 pm

Show FAQs: gardenshow.com/information

02/25/2020

Little Prince of Oregon Nursery

We are very excited to invite gardeners from all over the Pacific Northwest and beyond to visit our beautiful garden at the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival! The show opens Wednesday and closes Sunday! Please drop by and say hi! Our garden is a crevice garden and showcases many of the great plant species we grow at Little Prince and how they can be used creatively in garden design. Follow the pictures to see how the garden came together!

02/25/2020

Here's a few exhibitors who are close to finished with their booths at the 2020 Northwest Flower & Garden Festival!

02/25/2020

Fleurs de Villes is in the building!! Here's a tiny peek of these AMAZING displays that are coming together right now! 😍🌺🌸

Don't forget the Early Bird discount expires in 24 hours! Buy now to save $5: nwf.gs/tickets

02/25/2020

Plant nerds unite! Our new Community Plant Center will have a section carved out for the Cascade Nursery Trail plant sale. We snapped a few pics while they were setting up... you better get here early for these rare and unique plants!

Collaboration with Secret Garden Growers LLC / Hydrangeas Plus / Out in the Garden Nursery

02/24/2020

One of our new Plant Market additions! 😍🌿😍 Booth #2417

We’re here, Seattle! The festival starts Wednesday at 9am! Who are we going to see?🤩🌱🌿
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02/24/2020

Pacific Bonsai Museum

Metal Pine for a ‘Zen Furiosa’ Garden // For his show garden at the 2020 NW Flower & Garden Festival, Tony Fajarillo (Redwood Builders LLC) was inspired by the film /Mad Max Fury Road/ imagining a post-apocalyptic, urban garden. The film’s central character, Furiosa, rebels against a resource-controlling warlord to protect and save the warlord’s life-giving harem and secure hope for the future in the form of the world’s last remaining seeds. So, when Tony asked us to contribute a bonsai to the display, PBM Curator Aarin Packard said, “I have just the tree.”

Packard began restyling this bonsai in 2016 when he was inspired to design a bonsai to express emotions of pain, grief, hurt, healing, and hope. He believes these feelings are less commonly expressed in bonsai compared to expressions of peace and tranquility. To achieve his design vision, he inserted six, iron nails and one broken saw blade into the trunk of the tree.

The addition of metal does not inflict long term damage on the tree; rather, the tree incorporates the material and grows a callous over the wound. Packard later learned that the practice of inserting nails is a common bonsai technique used in China to produce trunk thickening at the base of the tree: a desirable aesthetic effect that mimics agedness.

The metal--evident to the viewer--stands as a symbol of the process we all go through when we live through difficult events and then carry their residue as a part of who we become.

Japanese Black Pine (Pinus thunbergii) / In training as a bonsai since: 1992 / From the collection of Pacific Bonsai Museum.

The show starts this Wednesday (2/26) and runs through Sunday (3/1). Learn more about NWFGS and get tickets to see ‘Zen Furiosa’ at
gardenshow.com

or https://facebook.com/events/s/northwest-flower-garden-festiv/372734500110088/?ti=icl

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02/24/2020

Christianson's Nursery & Greenhouse

Racks on racks of plants! We'll have over 20,000 blooming bulbs in our display gardens alone!

Greening up the Convention Center.
#ChristiansonsNursery #NWFGS #FloweringShrubs #FloweringTrees

02/24/2020

Spring has arrived in the Washington State Convention Center! 🌺🌸🌿
Our Garden Creators have been working hard for the past 48 hours - only 24 hours left to go!

02/24/2020

SO. MANY. HOUSEPLANTS. 😍
Photo snapped in our Plant Market during move-in.

Don't forgot to snag your tickets before the online Early Bird discount expires! -> nwf.gs/tickets

02/22/2020

Our Official Show Guide is now available online! Get the first look at our exciting show features, exhibitor list, stage schedules and maps right at your fingertips.
View and download your copy here: nwf.gs/showguide 🌺💐

The guide will also be available at show entrances.

02/22/2020

Daniel Hinkley will be at the 2020 Northwest Flower & Garden Festival as one of our prestigious Show Judges and will be speaking on:

𝗧𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘆 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀, 𝗧𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘆 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 (𝗢𝗞, 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗧𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘆…)
Wednesday, Feb 26 at 11:30 am

𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗮𝗻’𝘀 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘀, 𝗦𝗵𝗿𝘂𝗯𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗩𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗡𝗪 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘀
Thursday, Feb 27 at 10:00 am

Dan is a writer, lecturer, nurseryman, and naturalist devoted to introducing rare plants to the gardeners of North America. This endeavor led him into the wilds of China, South and Central America, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, Nepal and Vietnam over the past 20 years. Dan remains as the Director of Heronswood and proprietor of Windcliff Plants with his husband Robert Jones.

Learn more about Dan and his appearance at the Festival: gardenshow.com/seminars/speakers/#dan-hinkley

The Early Bird discount expires soon, so buy your tickets now to save $5! 🌿 nwf.gs/fbtickets

02/21/2020