What makes this show so relevant to me -- and other gardeners in Northern California -- is that the show's producer, Duane Kelly, will be producing this year's San Francisco Flower & garden Show for the second consecutive year. To be held March 16-19 at the Cow Palace near South San Francisco, Kelly is brining many of the same elements to the San Francisco show.
If you live near San Francisco, you can order discount tickets by mail or fax. Advance tickets are priced at $12.50 each, which is a $2 discount. You can order tickets by mailing your request and check to: San Francisco Flower & Garden Show, 1515 NW 51st St., Seattle, WA., 98107, or by faxing it to (206) 784-5545. Additionally, many local garden centers are selling discounted advance tickets. For more nformation, call toll-free at (800) 829-9751, or visit the show's web site at: www.gardenshow.com.
Among the Northwest Flower & Garden Show highlights in Seattle were the 27 breathtaking show gardens. It always amazes me how landscapers can "build" landscaped gardens within the confines of a convention center. I mean, we're talking a virtual Mount Rainier here as more than 1,100 cubic yards of soil and mulch was trucked in. Specimen trees, some 40 feet high, were in abundance, as was the use of water in the form of water wheels, streams, ponds and waterfalls.
The show gardens included everything from "The Teddy Bears Picnic" to "The Millennium Railway." There were blooming azaleas, tulips and fully leafed-out Japanese maples. Most gardens made ample use of water, fo which the Northwest is never in short supply. Who says we have to wait for spring?
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