Thought I would post some pictures from the PNW Flower and Garden Show. Sue and I went on Wednesday and Thursday and had a great time. Here are a few of our favorite plant picks for 2008!
Ceanothus "Zanzibar" Great varigated foliage!
PNW Flower and Garden Show Pictures
I will post pictures of the display gardens this weekend. Rachel
Sue and I ran into Jim at the UW Bookstore booth and had a nice visit. We never crossed paths with Pixy but we kept in touch via cell phone (have to love technology!)
Nice pics Rach, can't wait for more
Sorry don't stay up late on my account, but loving it.
Really like that outdoor setting and the water troughs
Have you any ideas for my area? (tread I started)
EEEEEu Love the rock, Laurie will LOVE IT.
Thanks for the photos. I wasn't able to make it at the last minute and really appreciate seeing what was there.
wooo, wooo, the rocks!! Actually, Rach, if we are talking about the rock bridgey thing that is so easy to do - and cheap as chips - I can send instructions if you want to do one - that one looks as though it is dry laid - which is very easy or you can use concrete to hold it together more permanently. I'm not wild about the rock cages behind - there is a garden near here that has used those as huge retaining walls near their path - and I have to say I am always tempted to bring wire cutters with me. But I love some of your plant choices - yummy stuff - especially the dusty miller - most covetable (should that have two t's?)
I do think a PNWDG work team could do much more interesting display gardens - and cause a bit of havoc in the doing - twould be fun - and we have the official looking t-shirts, with names! (We all might have to wear those black glasses with nose and mustache - but we could manage that).
Rachel,
Oh more pictures please, I just love them! You are passing around your adventure to those of us who were not able to participate!
Thanks,
Carla
Hello and Welcome NWGordon,
Let me introduce myself and tell you to jump right in on these threads with pictures. We love sharing our plants and ideas!
Post a picture of your new bears breech, I miss mine I left it at our home in Lynnwood... and I have finally found a home for one this year! Now to just find the right one!
NW welcome - and photos please. Love looking at things through other's eyes/lens. Cocoa nice foliage combination.
Laurie I like the fenced rock wall. It is far better than mortar. IMHO> especially with light vineing clematis climbing the fence material. Summer =color-Winter =rocks with clematis vines remaining. There are so many glaciated rocks here in the states we need to do more with them.
I absolutely LOVED this place! A few of the gardens were a bit over the top for me, particularly those with an urban flavor, but. . .wow. I could so easily have many of those places as my yard! I'm glad there are pictures here because, as I mentioned on another thread, forgot my camera (in addition to my brain) so didn't get any pix. Many are firmlly embedded in my mind now, though. I LOVED the kitchen garden with the rooftop corn and sunflowers...that was the same one with the chicken coop with the living roof, I think.
I fell in love with the begonia "escargot." The leaf shapes were so cool but methinks it would have to be a houseplant. And heather...I LOVE heather...any color...everything about it. It's so great! And begonia foliosa...
All I know is next year I have to have a plan. There was just SO much there I was totally overwhelmed. I could have spent a LOT of money but as it is, only bought a heather, two orchids (DH is hooked on them now) and bulbs. Got some gloves that actually fit my "man" hands...now THAT was a treat!
Escargot is my favorite rex begonia, too. So cute! You can use them outside in containers during the summer if you like.
Oh, and you're not the only one who forgot the camera...
Rachel, so glad your chicken coop picture included the roof so I could show it to DH.
Gordon, I loved the chicken, as well as most of the other metal sculptures in their booth. Gotta have one (or more) and I think the shop is in Greenwood area. Regarding the wire retained rock walls, AKA gabions, they are a 'less costly' means of constructing retaining walls and find a welcome use in areas where other structures are too difficult to construct. Not too cool for landscaping though. The show was really nice, and the Cheesecake Factory across the street was great. Too many plants and ideas from the show, how can I ever live without implementing most of them. lol
NWGordon, So what's the trick to getting Escargot so big and lush looking? Mine is not happy.
Is you acanthus tasmanian tiger? That is a great one. I love begonias and have lots for sale. think they are great. What did you thinkof the one by plantswoman design. She had the one with the red metal planter box.
Is you acanthus tasmanian tiger? That is a great one. I love begonias and have lots for sale. think they are great. What did you thinkof the one by plantswoman design. She had the one with the red metal planter box.
Did see them and they were cool. Didn't say on the tag, just rex! But that was my guess when I bought it. Way up in Mt Vernon at Summersun Nursery. The angel wing is Looking glass, pretty sure. Got to get everything organized!
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