Our Seattle garden show is a little later than usual this year...if you just can't wait, Portland's Yard, Garden and Patio Show comes first this year, is smaller than ours, easier to navigate, less commercial. And you get to spend the weekend in Portland....
I spoke at the Portland show last year, which was a real treat. The seminars are run by my dear friends Lucy Hardiman and Nancy Goldman, and this year they've lured Dan Hinkley and Ciscoe Morris down to speak, as well as Dan Heims of Terra Nova Nursery, edible expert Willi Galloway, and Maurice Horn of Joy Creek Nursery. See the full schedule here.
Be sure and track down the Cracked Pots booth, which is full of garden items cleverly crafted of recyclables and repurposed materials. And then there's the winter display from the Hardy Plant Society, with tables full of bits and blooming pieces cut fresh from the garden...such an extravagent, fragrant look at real-time winter (all those witch hazel twigs in full bloom...heavenly).
Last year YGP's urban edible garden alone was well worth the price of admission. ..this year their take on food gardening is described as "modern and sustainable in design but comfortable, tangible, and full of ideas to make edible gardening a joy." Designed by Carol Senna of Melingo Studio Landscape Design, it features reclaimed lumber and perennial edibles. You'll find an urban orchard and a tea garden, roomy gathering spaces for dining, cold frames and raised beds.
The show runs February 8 - 10 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland.
Here are a few scenes of last year's edible garden, including the dining table that centered it...
Francoise Weeks's inspired, Brussel sprout laden centerpiece...
and the canning corner of the garden....what edible garden could do without that little chicken??
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