NW Flower and Garden Show

This is the premier garden event in the Northwest – a huge display of demonstration gardens and garden product vendors – and we are actually here and were able to go! (In spite of my still-bad cold. I just took my box of tissues and cold medicine along.)

The venue is the WA Convention Center, an amazing place in downtown Seattle. The event attracts all kinds of folks – and people-watching is certainly one good reason to go. The big garden displays always include patios, water features, bridges, trellises, art, patio furniture, massive amounts of plants – tulips were quite prominent this year – and trees. And, of course, everything is identified so you can rush out to your local nursery and place your order! They have all kinds of information and gardening assistance available – we found out about native bees and signed up for emails about baskets (that might have been a mistake, but you know how it is when you get to talking to someone…) and got some information about the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival in April. Mark got a 'bee' cap. We wandered down to the market when we were done and I got some fresh roasted cashews. All very exciting stuff. It was wonderful. Sigh.

Spring might be around the corner. We might eventually sell our house and get out of this apartment. I might, at some point, even get over this cold. It could all turn out OK after all.

It didn’t rain today either!










(Is this a garden nymph?)


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