Awards Bestowed Throughout Garden Show

Most people know about the awards (Gold, Silver, Bronze or Crystal) awarded to the show gardens by our main Show Judges – Stephen Orr, Rosalind Creasy and Steve Aitken this year – along with the coveted Founder’s Cup Award (the Oscar of the garden show) and the American Horticulture Society’s Environmental Award, which goes to

Design a Garden – Week 7 Design Sketches

We’re now at the 7th installment of our “Design a Garden,” where our website readers are participating in the design of a spectacular show garden for the upcoming Northwest Flower & Garden Show. The theme will be based on the beloved Beatles song, “Here Comes the Sun.” Designer Lloyd Glasscock of Looking Glass Design has drawn up three

Marianne’s Swiss Chard – On Guard!

Garden show favorite Marianne Binetti shares her recipe for using Swiss Chard all winter, saying it’s her formula for good health: “It keeps me on guard against colds, flues, poor eyesight, bad skin, gum disease, bunions, and Post Vacation Stress Disorder.”

Design a Garden – Week 5 Soil Base

Savvy gardeners know one vital fact for having a healthy garden with happy plants: It’s the soil.

Grow Radicchio To Color Your Diet With Abundant Antioxidants

Antioxidants found in radicchio are your natural defense against aging Grow Radicchio To Color Your Diet With Abundant Antioxidants is a post from: Your Organic Gardening Blog

Great Lawn Guaranteed! Apply Lime Now!

The reason to apply lime is to encourage a thick, vigorous stand of grass. Lime provides calcium, a nutrient required for healthy turf growth.

Janit’s Quick Pasta Sauce

Janit Calvo is an artist, a lifelong gardening enthusiast, and an entrepreneur with a joie de vivre that makes just about anything come to life. As a passionate creator Janit has “shrunk” the world of gardening with Two Green Thumbs Miniature Garden Center, a company she formed in 2004. Here Janit shares a low-calorie (full

Exhibitor Spotlight – Wilberton Pottery

Bob and Iris Jewett, owners of Wilberton Pottery, have been a fixture at the garden show since 1995.  Their creations of fine tiles have graced many homes and gardens and – full disclosure – I have two tiles decorating the new outdoor cook top structure my husband and I built three years ago, and a

Plant Sale of the Season

September is here and that means the acclaimed Northwest Horticultural Society’s Fall Plant Sale is right around the corner. Right now you should be outside with notepad and pen, making notes of all the plants that didn’t thrill you this past season, and need to be replaced with something that works better for you

Pesticides: 12 Most Contaminated Fruits & Vegetables. The Choice Is Yours For Organic Gardening

You may be ingesting 67 pesticides if you’re eating non-organic celery , according to a new report from the Environmental Working Group.

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