February 9-13, 2022

Washington State Convention Center

705 Pike Street, Seattle, WA

Speakers at a Glance

Name: Official Northwest Flower & Garden Festival
Start: 2022-02-09
End: 2022-02-13
Location: Washington State Convention Center

Here are all of the gardening luminaries coming from around the U.S., U.K., and Canada who will be appearing at the 2022 Northwest Flower & Garden Festival.

Want to know more about a speaker? Simply click on their name to find their biography, website, seminar description, date(s) and time(s).

The speakers are listed below alphabetically by last name. All seminars are FREE with your ticket!

Ann Amato

Ann Amato—Horticulturist and seed propagator at Cistus Nursery and blogger, amateurbotannist.com

Ann Amato lives in Portland, Oregon and is a horticulturist and seed propagator at Cistus Nursery and a propagator at Secret Garden Growers in Canby. She has been a garden blogger (amateurbotannist.com) for over a decade and is the recipient of an Oregon Nurseries Foundation Scholarship. Currently she is the President of the Mount Hood Gesneriad Society, an affiliated chapter of The Gesneriad Society. She has appeared on ‘Garden Time TV,’ was interviewed for ‘The Planthunter’ in Australia, as well as for the podcast Horticulture Rising. At 18, she published the book Ancient Forests and Western Man: A Pictorial History of the West Coast. Later, she earned a BA from Portland State University with a double major in English literature and art history. She now tends to her small urban garden named Campiello Maurizio (the Garden of One-of-each-ee) and when not working, she tends to her houseplants—over 500 different plants in her indoor plant collection—many of which are either gesneriads (African Violets) or begonias. www.amateurbotanist.com

Mounting Plants: Growing Epiphytic and Plants Indoors

When you run out of shelf space for all your beloved houseplants, go vertical and use your walls! Join a horticulturist and houseplant geek to discover easy techniques to mount your epiphytic plants. From bromeliads to huperzias (club mosses), orchids to gesneriads (African Violet relatives), each has its specific requirements needed to grow into the best possible specimen plant. Sometimes doing so in a small terrarium is best. Always doing so with adequate light is key to your success. Ann will walk you through the process and teach you some propagation tips along the way.

Wednesday, Feb 9 at 1:30 pm / DIY Stage

Julie Beeler

Julie Beeler—Artist and Founder, Bloom & Dye and co-author, Forever Flowers

Designer, artist, educator and native Oregonian, Julie Beeler grew up with a deep love and curiosity for the natural world. She experiments with the unpredictability of plants by growing and harvesting, observing and foraging, and tethering herself to nature’s seasons. Julie holds a BFA magna cum laude in Graphic Design and Art History from University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA). For seven years she was on the faculty of Pacific Northwest College of Art and Oregon College of Art & Craft in Portland, and is a teacher at Wildcraft Studio School in Portland. She is co-author of the upcoming book by BLOOM Imprint, Forever Flowers, to be published in the fall of 2022. In 1994 along with her husband, Brad Johnson, she founded and led Second Story, an interactive design studio in Portland until 2012. A Trout Lake, WA resident since 2014, Julie conceived and launched Bloom & Dye in 2018 to grow her work and passion to benefit what she values most: curiosity, education, creativity, collaboration, community, and the environment. Bloom & Dye is situated on an 18-acre WSDA certified organic property along the White Salmon River. When she is not digging in the soil, Julie is working in her art studio, foraging for dye mushrooms or leading workshops. Find her at www.bloomanddye.com/

Colors from the Dye Garden Featured in the upcoming book Forever Flowers, Julie Beeler of Bloom & Dye will introduce you to the fascinating alchemy of natural dyes. She shows how to discover the dye plants growing around us and teaches how to unlock a plant's natural ‘tinctoria.' Julie will share some of her favorite, easy-to-grow dye plants, with tips on how to extract unique and colorful pigments for textile dyeing and other new forms of botanical artwork, including sample project ideas.

Saturday, Feb 12 at 5:00 pm / DIY Stage

Diane M Blazek

Diane Blazek—Executive Director at All America Selections and National Garden Bureau

For more than 30 years, Diane has been immersed in gardening, both personally and professionally. She brings a passion to the subject based on a history in the horticulture industry as well as a love for gardening and culinary exploration. Growing up on a small family farm in Missouri, Diane spent years helping her parents plant, tend and harvest a large home vegetable garden. As a newly married homeowner, she and her husband tackled the compacted clay soil around their suburban Chicago home as they tried to improve their outside space. Since 2010, Diane has been leading All-America Selections and National Garden Bureau through an exciting period of growth as they establish themselves as inspirational resources in the minds of garden communicators, public gardens, growers, garden retailers and home gardeners. All-America Selections has tripled in size with trial additions, an expanded website, more Display Gardens and an ever-increasing social media presence. National Garden Bureau has quadrupled in size with the addition of new programs, social media, therapeutic garden grants and new membership categories. With both organizations, the connection to the consumer is of topmost importance and by using that connection, she provides direction and insights to the industry. Prior to that Diane was president and publisher at Ball Publishing for 15 years, where she led the way in connecting the commercial side of the industry with consumers via the live focus groups called Consumer Buzz Live! Diane also managed Ball Publishing’s entry into consumer garden book publishing.

https://ngb.org/

https://all-americaselections.org/

Garden Lust: New Must-Have Plants for 2022

Gardeners always like to know about the latest plant introductions and, if possible, put them in their own gardens. But how to keep up with all the “new” plants? National Garden Bureau to the rescue! Through NGB’s connections with dozens of plant breeders, they compile lists of hundreds of new varieties and present them on their website via their “New Plants” program. But hearing about these exciting new plants live, with personal stories, insights and experiences is far more exciting! Bring a pen and paper to this seminar to write down all the new varieties you’ll want in your garden!

Saturday, Feb 12 at 4:30 pm / Rainier Room

Harvest These Tips: Victory Gardening for Beginners

James H. Burdett founded National Garden Bureau in 1920 and wrote the original Victory Garden Manual in 2040. A century later the COVID pandemic hit and the country again turned to Victory Gardening. National Garden Bureau relaunched the Victory Garden concept in March 2020, calling it Victory Gardening 2.0. Those Victory Garden blogs had many beginner tips that are sure to help any gardener be more successful. This seminar will share some of the original Victory Garden pointers as well as those for today’s gardens which are sure to be valuable take home tips.

Sunday, Feb 13 at 10:30 am / Hood Room

Jessi Bloom

Jessi Bloom—Award-winning owner, NW Bloom, author Creating Sanctuary and co-author, Practical Permaculture Design

Jessi Bloom is a best-selling author, award-winning ecological landscape designer, and teacher at the OSU Permaculture program. She is the founder N.W. Bloom EcoLogical Services, based near Seattle, known as an innovator in the field of permaculture design, sustainable construction and land management. Jessi has written four books from Timber Press: Creating Sanctuary (2018) and its companion Everyday Sanctuary (2019), Free-Range Chicken Gardens (2012), and she co-authored Practical Permaculture (2015). She also wrote The Wetland Handbook: A Community Guide to Growing Native Plants (King Conservation District, 1998). Her work has appeared nationally in Better Homes and Gardens, Sunset, NY Times, Fine Gardening, PBS's Growing a Greener World TV, Martha Stewart Living, Mother Earth News and many other large media outlets. Jessi has received awards the WA State Department of Ecology, the AHS, WSNLA, WALP, and Pacific Horticulture and Sunset magazines. She was appointed as a King County Agricultural Commissioner as well as an executive advisor for the urban forestry programs in the WA State Dept of Natural Resources for the PNW International Society of Arboriculture. Jessi has built popular display gardens at the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival, winning Gold medals and special awards of merit. She lives near Seattle with her 3 children in their little permaculture paradise, which is full of functional gardens and rescue animals. www.nwbloom.com

Reconnect with Nature: Rewild Your Garden!

Our gardens balance between our domestication of the land and it wanting to be wild, making our role as stewards important to create compassionate harmony with flora and fauna and find benefits for ourselves. Learn how to rewild your garden and edit the space to make it more natural, wildlife friendly, and easier to care for. With the uncertainty of climate change, unpredictable weather is making this shift this more important than ever. Jessi will cover step-by-step instructions as well as the best plants to use in the Pacific Northwest for the rewilding of your garden.

Wednesday, Feb 9 at 6:00 pm / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

Loree Bohl

Loree Bohl—Author of Fearless Gardening and blogger, thedangergarden.com

Loree is the creative force behind the popular blog danger garden, where she shares her love for agaves, cactus, and all things spiky—as well as a fondness for ferns and a good patch of Pacific NW moss. Loree’s first book, Fearless Gardening: Be Bold, Break the Rules, Grow What You Love was published by Timber Press in early 2021. Loree has written for magazines such as Better Homes and Gardens, Fine Gardening, and Pacific Horticulture. Her home garden and design projects have appeared in several magazines including Sunset, Old House Journal and in the books Private Gardens of the Pacific Northwest and The Water-Saving Garden: How to Grow a Gorgeous Garden with a Lot Less Water. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Loree knows how fortunate she is to garden in an area with a vibrant horticulture community. That said, garden travel is high on her list of leisure pursuits as she enjoys exploring other regional gardening styles, how climates influence gardeners’ plant choices, and how those plants are grown. She is a current board member at Hardy Plant Society of Oregon. Loree gardens in NE Portland and is a firm believer there is always room for one more plant. Sharing her passion for plants and garden design is a driving force behind everything she does. www.thedangergarden.com

There Is No “Right Way” to Garden

Have you ever felt gardening is just a long list of things to do, and not do? Loree calls these rules the “Gardening Commandments” and worries you may be tempted to follow them—after all, if they’re what the experts believe, who are we to question? Gardens are individual creations, however. What works in one may not work in another. Loree will humorously take you through a some of these Commandments and share other ways to look at the “rules” of gardening.

Thursday, Feb 10 at 5:00 pm / Hood Room / Book signing to follow

Create a Garden You Love

If your garden doesn’t bring you joy, what’s the point? It sounds so simple, but sometimes we forget that pleasing ourselves is reason enough to do something. In this photo-rich seminar Loree will guide you through multiple ways you can go about surrounding yourself with a garden you love. She’ll share examples from her own Portland garden, as well as others from her garden travels. Warning! You may leave inspired to make changes in your garden.

Friday, Feb 11 at 11:00 am / Hood Room / Book signing to follow

Bess Bronstein

Bess Bronstein—Horticulture consultant and ISA Certified Arborist

Bess Bronstein is an educator, horticultural consultant, and ISA Certified Arborist® based on the Kitsap Peninsula in Kingston, Washington, with over 35 years’ experience in arboriculture, landscape management and garden design. She was an instructor for the Edmonds College horticulture program for 28 years, with a focus on courses in pruning and tree care, plant identification, plant pests/diseases and diagnosis, and soils. She frequently teaches public and professional arboriculture and horticulture courses throughout the Puget Sound, does training for WSU Extension Master Gardener programs, and speaks to garden clubs and horticultural groups on a variety of topics. Bess holds an A.T.A. degree in Ornamental Horticulture, and a Master of Education (M.Ed.) degree from the University of Washington. Bess is proud to be a lifetime member of Plant Amnesty and supports ongoing education in sustainable landscape management practices and tree care.

Pruning ABCs for Healthy Trees and Shrubs

Does this sound familiar? A few years ago you enthusiastically purchased new trees and shrubs for your garden. They have grown, as is their habit. What do you do now to keep them managed, yet healthy and aesthetically pleasing? Don’t just grab those old pruning shears and start to make round balls or squares of varying sizes. Learn the ABCs of proper pruning techniques and timing for a variety of ornamental trees and shrubs, and find satisfaction in a pruning job well done. Your shrubs and trees will thank you!

Thursday, Feb 10 at 11:45 am / DIY Stage

GARDEN 101: All the Right Cuts

How to Plant a “Prune-less Garden”

Pruning is both art and science, but it doesn’t have to be intimidating if you learn basic techniques. Here three arborists will get you started on the right cuts to make, and when to make them. Charlie Nardozzi will help demystify pruning by talking about when to prune various flowering and non-flowering shrubs and trees, some basic pruning cuts you can do with all shrubs and trees and the tools you'll need to do the job. Next, Bess Bronstein helps you tackle an aging garden so that you can best plan how to take an overgrown chaos of huge shrubs, using pruning techniques for size and density reduction, plant definition and rejuvenation. Finally, Christina Pfeiffer will identify how plant choices, placement, and cultivation, along with those famous last words, “you can always prune it to keep it smaller,” contribute to creating a prune-a-lot garden. Learn how to optimize plant selection and how design elements can help set the stage for less pruning over the long term life of the garden.

Thursday, Feb 10 at 2:30 pm / Rainier Room

Greg Butler

Greg Butler, BLA, ATA—Designer, educator, and owner Design of the Times

Greg has been educating and entertaining gardeners of all levels of interest as a teacher, lecturer, writer, and garden coach for over two decades. As owner of the design and consulting firm Design of the Times, he puts an emphasis on helping his public and private clients create beautiful, functional, and easy-care gardens and landscapes that don’t depend on pesticides, chemical fertilizers, or any other kind of synthetic tom-foolery for success. Greg is a former Edmonds Community College Landscape Renovation instructor, a frequent guest on the “Gardening with Ciscoe” radio show, and a guest blogger on the website for Swansons Nursery. He also spends an enormous amount of time arguing with his wife (also a landscape professional) about what to do in their own garden, which they have dubbed “The Garden of the Shoemaker’s Children.”

The Gardener's Seven Deadly Sins
Laugh and learn from the blunders of a highly over-educated garden professional, as well as those of his colleagues, clients, and fellow homo sapiens. We’ll cover a litany of transgressions and tragedies including design fails, maintenance follies, control freaks run amok, terminal plant lust, and more. Remember, it's always better to learn from someone else's mistakes than from your own!

Sunday, Feb 13 at 3:00 pm / Hood Room

Dr Linda Chalker-Scott

Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott—WSU Horticulture Professor and author, How Plants Work and The Informed Gardener

Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott has a PhD in Horticulture from Oregon State University and is an ISA certified arborist and an ASCA consulting arborist. She is WSU’s Extension Urban Horticulturist and a Professor in the Department of Horticulture, and holds two affiliate professor positions at University of Washington. She conducts research in applied plant and soil sciences, publishing the results in scientific articles and university Extension fact sheets. In 2020, she was named the new editor for the Western Arborist magazine. Linda also is the award-winning author of five books: the horticultural myth-busting The Informed Gardener (2008) and The Informed Gardener Blooms Again (2010) from the University of Washington Press and Sustainable Landscapes and Gardens: Good Science – Practical Application (2009) from GFG Publishing, Inc., and How Plants Work: The Science Behind the Amazing Things Plants Do from Timber Press (2015). Her latest book is an update of Art Kruckeberg’s Gardening with Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest from UW Press (2019), which has won several national awards. In 2018 Linda was featured in a video series—The Science of Gardening—produced by The Great Courses. She also is one of the Garden Professors—a group of academic colleagues who educate and entertain through their blog and Facebook pages. Linda’s educational contributions to science-based information have been recognized by such groups as Garden Communicators International, the National Association of County Agricultural Agents, and the International Association for Arboriculture. www.facebook.com/TheGardenProfessors

Interpreting Soil Tests: What to Know, What to Ignore and What to Do

Many home gardeners wisely send their soil samples to testing labs to identify nutrient deficiencies and to screen for heavy metals. Understanding the results, however, can be challenging, especially when different labs have different recommendations. This seminar will help gardeners identify test results that are important for garden management decisions; it will also help them understand which soil characteristics can’t be changed. Don’t waste your money trying to “correct” soil deficiencies that may not actually be a problem at all for your plants.

Wednesday, Feb 9 at 11:00 am / Hood Room / Book signing to follow

You’re Stuck with the Soil You’ve Got—Now Deal With It!

Linda Chalker-Scott gives you all the best dirt on garden soil. She will address the most common problem seen in residential landscapes: poor water movement. She’ll demonstrate how mulches and amendments can either improve or worsen drainage. What happens when you use gravel or foam peanuts in the bottom of pots? Does water move best through landscape fabric, newspaper, cardboard, or wood chips? You’ll see the evidence for yourself! This seminar will save you and your plants heartbreak by better understanding the science of healthy soil.

Thursday, Feb 10 at 1:30 pm / DIY Stage / Book signing to follow

Fertilizers: The Good, The Bad, And the Completely Unnecessary

There are so many different fertilizers out there: granular, slow-release, or liquid, not to mention synthetic and organic. What works and what doesn’t? This session will present the science (or lack thereof) behind many popular fertilizer recommendations. After debunking these myths, you will learn a new approach that combines soil test results with science-based recommendations for providing the necessary nutrients and avoiding those that are already at toxic levels.

Sunday, Feb 13 at 4:00 pm / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

Karen Chapman

Karen Chapman—Owner, Le Jardinet, award-winning co-author, Fine Foliage, Gardening with Foliage First and author, Deer-Resistant Design

Born in England, Karen grew up with a trowel in her hand. After moving to the Pacific Northwest in 1996 she joined Molbak’s Garden & Home as a garden plant specialist before establishing Le Jardinet in 2006. While initially specializing in custom container gardens, Karen now applies that same attention to detail by designing functional and artistic landscapes. Her designs have been featured in Fine Gardening, Sunset and Better Homes & Gardens. She is co-author of two popular books on foliage: Gardening with Foliage First (Timber Press, 2017) and the award-winning Fine Foliage (St. Lynn’s Press, 2013). Her latest is Deer-Resistant Design (Timber Press, 2019). When not designing gardens or writing about them, Karen is usually teaching landscape and container design in workshops around the country, as well as online courses. Whether on the stage or the page, Karen’s aim is always to inspire, educate and share the fun of gardening with her audience. www.lejardinetdesigns.com

Beyond the Basics: Designing an Enchanting Garden

Gardens should be experienced, not just observed. Yet how do you design a garden to be more experiential? Designer Karen Chapman does this by finding ways to fully engage all the senses, but also to pique curiosity and engage the imagination. Using examples from her travels to outstanding public and private gardens across the country she will explore ways to transform your garden into an enchanting, captivating retreat, with ideas for gardens and budgets of all sizes.

Thursday, Feb 10 at 9:30 am / Hood Room / Book Signing to follow

Saturday, Feb 12 at 12:30 pm / Hood Room / Book signing to follow

Container Wars

Once again we’ve lined up leading garden designers and writers to “battle it out” in our highly acclaimed “Container Wars.” Containers can go virtually anywhere—patios, decks and balconies or even in the garden! Drawing from identical plant materials, Karen Chapman and Charlie Nardozzi will each create three gorgeous containers—all in under an hour! Working against the clock, and with fun “challenges” thrown at them by Master of Ceremonies Marianne Binetti, see how they pull together plants and share their tips for designing luscious container gardens. Learning about plants has never been so fun!

Friday, Feb 11 at 11:30 am / Main Stage in North Hall

Design Dilemmas & Savvy Solutions

Some gardens (and gardeners) present significant challenges: plant lust run amok, an established focal point that has no sense of “place,” or a hodge-podge of multi-colored plants that better resemble grandmas crazy quilt than a well curated collection. Learn how to creatively solve these and other common design problems while also discovering how to break at least some design rules (because most of us are rebel gardeners at heart). Laugh as you learn how to make the best of a bad situation.

Friday, Feb 11 at 3:30 pm / Hood Room / Book signing to follow

Brian D Coleman

Brian D Coleman, MD—Author, Private Gardens of the Pacific Northwest and West Coast Editor for Old House Journal

Brian D. Coleman, M.D., is a practicing psychiatrist in Seattle, Washington. Also an old-house enthusiast, Brian has grown his love for historic restoration into an active second career. He serves as the West Coast Editor for Old House Journal and is the author of 22 books, including Fortuny, Porthault, and Zuber (all by Gibbs Smith). His most recent book, Private Gardens of the Pacific Northwest, (Gibbs Smith, 2021) features an intimate look at 20 lush private gardens around the region. Brian divides his time between Seattle and New York.

Private Gardens of the Pacific Northwest

Join author Brian Coleman to explore Private Gardens of the Pacific Northwest—a stunning visit of 20 lush private gardens. These sprawling estates, small sanctuaries, and artful retreats capture the natural beauty of the verdant Pacific Northwest, each one splashed with hints of boldness, modernity, artistry, and exquisiteness. You will leave inspired with ideas of the Northwest’s natural beauty for your own garden.

Saturday, Feb 12 at 11:30 am / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

Sharon J Collman

Sharon J. Collman—Award-winning Emeritus Professor, WSU Extension Educator in Horticulture and IPM

Sharon Collman is a Washington State University Emeritus Professor and a WSU Extension Educator in Horticulture and IPM. She has a B.S. in biology, M.S., and Ph.C. in Entomology. Sharon was the first woman Agriculture Agent in Washington. In 1973, she was a founding member of the pilot WSU Master Gardener Program and provides pest ID and diagnosis training. She was the first Extension Liaison to EPA working on water quality and pesticides issues, then became EPA’s Regional IPM Coordinator. She’s written 75 bulletins, been a guest on Ed Hume’s “Gardening in America” and Ciscoe Morris and public radio shows, and her photographs have been published in the Ortho Problem Solver and others. She has won many awards including the Ed Lacrosse Distinguished Service Award by WA State Master Gardener Foundation (2017); EPA Team Award of Excellence for the Urban Pesticide Initiative (2003); Outstanding Urban Horticulture Program in the U.S. (1986), 2nd place national for her column, “Bugs and Blights” (1986); "Nurseryman of the Year," “Educator of the Year” (2008), Honorary Lifetime Membership (2008), and “Pioneer Award” for enduring contributions to the green industry (2014) by WSNLA; Achievement Award from the NACAA (1979), as well as awards for her slide shows, writing and photography. Her presentations and hands-on workshops are fast paced, light and enjoyable. Sharon is totally committed to the value of extension and Master Gardeners in protecting the environment and human health. She is passionate about the insects in all their diversity and continues to teach and photograph insects for enjoyment. www.bugsandblights.com

Building a Pollinator Garden: From Grass to Blooming Exuberance

The seminar will document the transition from a bumpy, unhealthy lawn and sheared conifers to a garden of perennials, flowering trees, and shrubs, lots of buzzing by pollinators, and a bonus of water quality benefits. Learn to really SEE the tiny pollinators, flies that look like bumble bees and bumble color-stripes you may have overlooked.

Wednesday, Feb 9 at 12:30 pm / Hood Room

GARDEN 101: What’s Bugging Your Garden?

Top Five Garden Pests: Aphids and Weevils and Snails, Oh My!

Bugs. Insects. Pests. Weevils…they just sound evil, don’t they? Every garden gets its share of insects, but many are beneficial! Discover what’s bugging your garden and what you can do about it without resorting to harmful chemicals. Sharon Collman talks about the top 5 garden pests and helps you to learn “who’s who” so you do not unwittingly kill off the natural allies that are eating your pesty bugs. Susan Mulvihill takes it a step further so you can discover how to attract even more beneficial insects to your garden by eliminating pesticide use, creating habitat for them, interplanting flowers and herbs within your vegetables, and building your own insect hotel to welcome these amazing creatures. Finally, Ciscoe Morris takes you to the hidden world of these fascinating creatures and how to use the beneficial guys to help prevent the troublemakers from inflicting serious harm to your plants.

Saturday, Feb 12 at 2:30 pm / Rainier Room

Janice Cox

Janice Cox—Author, Natural Beauty from the Garden and Beautiful Flowers

Janice Cox is an expert on the topic of Natural Beauty and making your own cosmetic products with simple kitchen and garden ingredients. She is the author of six best-selling books on the topic: Natural Beauty at Home (Henry Holt & Co., 2002),Natural Beauty for All Seasons (Ogden, 2^nd ed, 2019),Natural Beauty from the Garden (Ogden, 2018) as well as Beautiful Luffa, Beautiful Lavender, andBeautiful Flowers, all from Ogden. She is currently the beauty editor for Herb Quarterly magazine and a regular contributor to several national healthy living and woman’s magazines on the topics of health, beauty, and garden plants. Janice has appeared on television and radio programs discussing natural and organic beauty treatments and garden herbs and flowers. She is a member of the Herb Society of America, United States Lavender Growers Association, Northwest Lavender Association, National Garden Bureau and Garden Communicators International. Janice lives and gardens in Medford, Oregon.

www.naturalbeautyathome.com

Let’s Have a Seeds & Stems Party

Get ready for spring by learning how to make this your best seed starting year ever. Janice will help you understand to decipher seed packet lingo, prepare your organic seed starting soil mix, and plant and tend seeds of all varieties. She will also cover stem cutting techniques from mature plants so you can increase your plant inventory from your own backyard. Learn to make sustainable pots that you can use for your own garden or patio containers.

Wednesday, Feb 9 at 5:00 pm / DIY Stage / Book signing to follow

Create Your Own “Flower Seed” Paper

Seed paper is very on trend right now. Companies and garden enthusiasts are using recycled paper with seeds, herbs, and dried botanicals embedded in it as postcards, invitations and business cards. Imagine sending someone a beautiful card that also grows flowers. You will learn how to upcycle scrap paper such as junk mail, newspaper, shopping bags and computer documents into beautiful and useable seed paper creations. Janice will demonstrate this craft that combines recycling and gardening and is also good for the earth.

Thursday, Feb 10 at 5:00 pm / DIY Stage / Book signing to follow

Mary Palmer Dargan

Mary Palmer Dargan—Landscape architect, botanist and author of Timeless Landscape Design and Lifelong Landscape Design

Mary Palmer Dargan is at it again! Dargan’s landmark garden design books, Timeless Landscape Design: The Four-Part Master Plan (Gibbs-Smith, 2008) and Lifelong Landscape Design (Gibbs-Smith, 2012) are now joined with an online garden design school, The Placemakers Academy of Landscape Design. Mary Palmer intends to “heal the Earth, one garden at a time.” By providing access to online garden design training that promotes both beauty, function and sustainability, a homeowner can enjoy transformation of their home environment to support their highest purpose in life. Mary Palmer Dargan is a licensed landscape architect and principal of Dargan Landscape Architects, based in North Carolina. She is a former professor of landscape architecture and planning at Clemson University. She is a botanist and an accredited, lifetime horticulture judge for the Garden Club of America. Mary Palmer has lectured and judged at major flower shows such as The Palm Beach Flower Show (GCA) and Southeaster Flower Show and the Philadelphia Flower Show. Her podcast, “Timeless Landscape Design,” has 50 episodes on design techniques and lifestyle. www.theplacemakersacademy.com

Tricky Places: Fit Your Garden to Your Lifestyle Like a Glove

Now you can maximize the impact of your home environment with timeless landscape design techniques. Engage the four-part master plan to create seamless flow on your property. Integrate the 8 lifelong landscape design techniques to support your lifestyle so you can reach your highest purpose in life. Enjoy useful tricks of the trade gleaned from Mary Palmer Dargan’s 45 years of experience in the trenches of landscape design, from terrace building to water harvesting to the skillful use of art elements and design principles.

Thursday, Feb 10 at 6:00 pm / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

Placemakers Landscape Design: Unleash the Potential in Your Land

Your property holds great potential if you know how to unleash it. In 10 easy steps, learn to observe your land, map its salient features, record the elements, develop a wish list, create a plant matrix, define how to shape areas with pathways, create flat land with terraces, create shade with arbors and add magic with lighting and fountains. Then explore the guidelines on how to design a master plan to implement your dream garden. You’ll learn the language of the land and how to define your personal landscape pattern language.

Friday, Feb 11 at 1:00 pm / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

David Deardorff

David Deardorff—Award-winning co-author, What’s Wrong With My Houseplant? and Saving Nature: One Yard At A Time

David Deardorff is an acclaimed and dynamic public speaker who has appeared at the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival, the Philadelphia Flower Show and the San Francisco Flower Show, and many other public appearances across the country. He has appeared on Martha Stewart Living, Joe Lamp’l’s Growing a Greener World TV, Ken Druse’s Real Dirt, and Ciscoe Morris’s Gardening with Ciscoe. He has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee, and Sunset Magazine. David was formerly a professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Hawaii and a professor and Master Gardener instructor at Washington State University. He formerly owned and operated a native plant nursery in New Mexico and holds a PhD in Botany from the University of Washington. Today he writes with his co-author, Kathryn Wadsworth. They have published a series of books from Timber Press: What’s Wrong With My Plant? And how do I fix it? (2009), winner of a Silver Achievement Award from the Garden Writers of America; What’s Wrong With My Vegetable Garden? (2011), What’s Wrong With My Fruit Garden? (2013), and What’s Wrong With My Houseplant? (2016). They also authored What’s Wrong With My Marijuana Plant? (Ten Speed Press, 2017) and their latest book, Saving Nature: One Yard At A Time will be released by Countryman Press in April, 2022. http://kathrynanddavid.com/

Best Plants for Mediterranean climates

Our Mediterranean climate has a cool/wet season in winter, and a warm/dry season in summer. All five of the Mediterranean climates of the world have enough rain or snow in winter to support a rich variety of plant species but every summer is a long period of drought. Select the best plants for your location (use your zip code to determine your USDA Zone) and choose native and/or exotic species that thrive with little water in summer.

Friday, Feb 11 at 6:00 pm / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

Gardening For Wildlife with Native Plants

Our gorgeous native plants thrive in the sunlight, temperature, precipitation, and soils of our region. Perfectly adapted to our summer-dry climate, natives also formed symbiotic relationships with native birds, butterflies, and bees over thousands of years. Polyculture gardens, featuring complex structure and high species diversity using native plants, are sustainable because they need less irrigation and pest management. In addition to their beauty, native polycultures support multiple species of native wildlife. Discover what songbirds, butterflies and bees really need!

Saturday, Feb 12 at 2:00 pm / Hood Room / Book signing to follow

Tracy DiSabato-Aust

Tracy DiSabato-Aust—2022 Show Judge, horticulturist, designer and best-selling author, The Well-Tended Perennial Garden

Tracy DiSabato-Aust is an award-winning garden designer, international speaker, best-selling author, and world champion triathlete with a passion for plants and design as well as a dynamic inspiring message. Tracy has earned international acclaim as one of America’s most entertaining, knowledgeable, and artistic garden writers, professional speakers, and designers, with over 45 years of experience. She has not only spoken extensively throughout North America at venues such as Longwood Gardens, The Smithsonian Institute, The Toronto and Montreal Botanic Gardens, but her speaking and work has also taken her to Australia, New Zealand, Uruguay, Argentina, Portugal, Belgium, Scotland, and England. In England she has had the honor to speak at The Royal Botanic Garden: Kew, The Royal Horticulture Garden: Wisley, The Oxford Botanic Garden, and the English Gardening School. She is the author of three best-selling books from Timber Press: The Well-Tended Perennial Garden (over 250,000 copies sold and her publisher’s bestselling book ever, now in its 3^rd edition), The Well-Designed Mixed Garden, (2009) and 50 High-Impact, Low-Care Garden Plants (2009). Tracy is a frequent guest on garden television and radio shows. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph (London), The National Post (Toronto), and magazines such as Fine Gardening, Horticulture, Garden Design, and Gardens Illustrated (London). When Tracy is not busy with her “real job” she is growing thousands of sunflowers and specialty cut flowers on her farm to give away to family and friends. She and her sunflowers were featured in Better Homes & Gardens in 2019. Spare time is filled with training, and racing as a “12x All American” for Team USA in triathlons. Tracy is a four-time National Champion, World Champion, as well as a Worlds Silver & Bronze Medalist in her age group. She is also an avid equestrian riding trails, driving, and competing in dressage with her noble steeds Chief & Wiz. She is a proud cancer survivor. www.tracylive.com

Tracy DiSabato-Aust’s appearance sponsored by the

Bellevue Botanical Garden Society

The Art of Pruning Perennials Revisited

Are you new to the art of pruning perennials or could your pruning skills use sharpening? Then join internationally renowned Tracy DiSabato-Aust for the first time, or for a refresher lesson, about the exciting and innovative techniques of pruning perennials. Learn to prune to delay flowering, control pests and disease, reduce the need for staking and increase overwintering. Information based on her updated best-selling perennial maintenance bible “The Well-Tended Perennial Garden”!

Wednesday, Feb 9 at 11:30 am / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

Designing With Color, Texture and Form for Visionary Effects

In a well-designed border, we often notice the beauty of the combinations of plants more than the individual plants themselves. To achieve this sense of interplay, it’s useful to think about an artistic approach to color and visual texture: the patterns created by the lines and forms of combined leaves, branches, and flowers. Instead of using threads or yarns to weave texture, gardeners can stitch together the varied colors and patterns of plants to create living tapestries. Join Tracy for this dynamic and creative discussion on the use of color, texture, and form in the garden that will elevate your designs to visionary status.

Thursday, Feb 10 at 10:00 am / Rainier Room

Sarah Eberle

Sarah Eberle—2022 Show Judge and acclaimed Chelsea Flower Show designer

Stockbridge-based garden and landscape designer Sarah Eberle has worked in the landscaping industry for 42 years and won countless top awards at the pinnacle of British gardening. She has become the most–decorated RHS garden designer, making RHS Chelsea Flower Show history by winning a Gold Medal in every category there is to enter. In 2016 her Gold Medal for Hillier Nurseries in the Floral Marquee completed the clean sweep. Not content with that, Sarah also scooped a Gold for her Mekong Artisan Garden for Viking Cruises. For her 2021 Chelsea garden Sarah showed her vision with the Psalm 23 Garden in the Urban Garden section for the Bible Society. Sarah won a Gold Award and Best Construction Award for the Sanctuary Garden Category with The Psalm 23 Garden. In total, Sarah has won 19 RHS Gold Medals, as well as Best in Show. She has also won the George Cook award for innovation twice at Hampton Court. Sarah is a fellow of the Landscape Institute and the Society of Garden Designers and also a Trustee of the Royal Horticulture Society. She also has an Honorary Doctorate in Design from Greenwich University.

Sarah Eberle’s appearance sponsored by the

Northwest Horticultural Society

Designing Mind: An Insider’s Look at Making Award-winning Chelsea Gardens

British garden and landscape designer Sarah Eberle knows what it’s like to design gardens that not only have to please a client – it also must please tens of thousands of passionate British gardeners as well. And since she is the most highly decorated RHS garden designer, she knows what it takes to design a winning garden. Sarah will give us a preamble behind the scenes of the world’s oldest and most venerable garden show, and a look at her 12 – yes 12 – Gold medals at this acclaimed event.

Wednesday, Feb 9 at 10:00 am / Rainier Room

Gardening for Resilience: Responding to Current and Future Threats

These past few years the climate has become more unpredictable. Some areas in the Northwest reached record-breaking temperatures in the summer of 2021, burning plants beyond repair with scalding sunshine. Winters are getting colder and harsher. What can a gardener do to ensure that their garden is adapted to the ever-changing climate? British garden and landscape designer Sarah Eberle reviews key steps to take to prepare for a garden that was once happily suitable for the climate, and now suffers from weather events that are unpredictable.

Thursday, Feb 10 at 11:30 am / Rainier Room

Lorene Edwards Forkner

Lorene Edwards Forkner—Author, Beginner’s Guide to Growing Great Vegetables and gardening contributor for The Seattle Times

Lorene Edwards Forkner is an artist, author, speaker, and editor whose GROW column regularly appears in Pacific NW Magazine in The Seattle Times. Lorene is the author of 8 gardening titles, including the newly released The Beginner’s Guide to Growing Great Vegetables from Timber Press (2021), and coming in spring 2022, Color In and Out Of The Garden from Abrams Books. A small city garden in Seattle is Lorene’s workshop for exploring seasonal pleasures, delicious flavors, and creative experimentation. Follow @gardenercook on Instagram where Lorene posts daily color studies of plants in her garden. www.ahandmadegarden.com

Container Wars

Once again we’ve lined up leading garden designers and writers to “battle it out” in our highly acclaimed “Container Wars.” Containers can go virtually anywhere—patios, decks and balconies or even in the garden! Drawing from identical plant materials, Lorene Edwards Forkner and Sue Goetz will each create three gorgeous containers—all in under an hour! Working against the clock, and with fun “challenges” thrown at them by Master of Ceremonies Marianne Binetti, see how they pull together plants and share their tips for designing luscious container gardens. Learning about plants has never been so fun!

Wednesday, Feb 9 at 11:30 am / Main Stage in North Hall

Cultivating Delicious: Plan and Plant for Warm and Cool Season Edibles

Whether you’re new to growing or a well-seasoned green thumb, cultivating a garden in the Pacific Northwest is a continuing education as well as a nearly constant feast. Learn to get the most from your plot by planning and planting for both warm and cool growing seasons. Discover how to integrate edibles with ornamental plantings along with small garden-friendly strategies designed to produce maximum flavor from any size plot.

Wednesday, Feb 9 at 2:00 pm / Hood Room / Book signing to follow

C L Fornari

C L Fornari—Author, Coffee for Roses and The Cocktail Garden Hour and award-winning co-host, Plantrama Podcast

C.L. Fornari speaks to the public and professionals in the green industry about plants, gardens and horticulture, both in person and virtually. In addition to working for a family-owned Independent Garden Center, she writes a regular column for Garden Center Magazine and is the author of eight books, host of “GardenLine” on WXTK and co-host of Plantrama podcast. C.L. has won numerous awards for her garden communications. Her books, articles, podcast and radio show have received many awards from GardenComm International, the association of garden communicators. She was also named the Garden Communicator of the Year by the Perennial Plant Association in 2012. Her not-so-secret mission is to plant horticulture back into pop culture. In the meantime, she cultivates plants at Poison Ivy Acres on Cape Cod and blogs at www.GardenLady.com

Container Wars

Once again we’ve lined up leading garden designers and writers to “battle it out” in our highly acclaimed “Container Wars.” Containers can go virtually anywhere—patios, decks and balconies or even in the garden! Drawing from identical plant materials, C.L. Fornari and Ellen Zachos will each create three gorgeous containers—all in under an hour! Working against the clock, and with fun “challenges” thrown at them by Master of Ceremonies Marianne Binetti, see how they pull together plants and share their tips for designing luscious container gardens. Learning about plants has never been so fun!

Thursday, Feb 20 at 11:30 am / Main Stage in North Hall

A Garden Party: A Plantrama Celebration

Plants and gardens sustained us through the pandemic, and it’s time to celebrate that! Hear the Plantrama podcast co-hosts as they present ideas for garden celebrations. Learn how to dress up your yard and gardens for afternoon tea, barbeques, evening cocktails or family reunions. Hear how to gather for group wildlife walks, flower-crafting creative events, or a garden celebration around the firepit. Inspirations you can use with plants you can grow, plus there will be door-prizes!

Thursday, Feb 10 at 3:30 pm / Hood Room / Book signing to follow

Pruning Demystified: Be a Barber, Not a Butcher

In this seminar C.L. explains when, how and why plants should be pruned, and how plants respond to different pruning cuts. Discover the general rules for pruning and hear a “recipe” that you can use to approach any shrub or tree—before you make a single cut. In addition to seeing alternatives to trying to make a large plant smaller, you will learn when a plant’s appearance can be improved with careful pruning, and when it should be transplanted to a larger space that fits its size.

Friday, Feb 11 at 9:30 am / Hood Room / Book signing to follow

Kate Frey

Kate Frey—Award-winning garden designer and author of The Bee-Friendly Garden and Ground Rules

Kate Frey is an international award-winning garden designer and the principal at Kate Frey Sustainable Gardens in Walla Walla, WA She is a long-time pollinator advocate and garden educator. She designed noted gardens in California such as the organic public garden at Fetzer Vineyards, Lynmar Winery, and the Melissa Garden. She has designed three gardens for the Chelsea Flower Show in London, winning two Gold Medals and a Silver-Gilt. Kate has also created gardens in Malaysia, Japan and Saudi Arabia and is a regular garden columnist at the Press Democrat newspaper. She is the co-author of The Bee-Friendly Garden: Design an Abundant, Flower-Filled Yard that Nurtures Bees and Supports Biodiversity (Ten Speed Press, 2016), winner of the American Horticultural Society Best Gardening Book Award in 2017. Her second book, Ground Rules: 100 Easy Lessons for Growing a More Glorious Garden was published by Timber Press in 2018. Kate has a B.A. in English.

GARDEN 101: Gardening for Resilience

Ecological Gardening from California to London and Saudi Arabia

Gardening and farming adventures have taken designer and author Kate Frey to challenging and exciting projects, such as designing Chelsea Flower Show gardens, to Japan, Malaysia, and a Prince’s organic farm in Saudi Arabia. What themes and practices have informed these far-away gardens, and what lessons can we learn from them? Next, Ginger Hudson takes you on a fascinating journey to a most unusual environment for an arboretum, directly on a coast, not any ordinary coast—the world-famous Alaskan Inside Passage. Come learn which species of trees and woody plants survive the maritime climate extremes, potential opportunities for your gardens. Finally, author Emily Murphy gives you a guide to garden-based climate activism. Learn about biodiversity and rewilding; no-dig gardening and composting; growing fruits and vegetables; plants that attract bees and butterflies; and soil health and companion planting. Become a climate activist as you garden!

Wednesday, Feb 9 at 2:30 pm / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

Ground Rules: Lessons for Growing a More Glorious Garden

Some of us seem to be born with an interest in gardening, others come to it later in life. Whether you are experienced or a novice, there is much to learn in order to create and maintain a successful garden. Ground Rules contains 100 essential “rules” for you to discover and use, such as healthy soil, the best ways to water, and garden care and maintenance. Taken as a whole, these ground rules offer a system of best practices and design considerations that address every aspect of gardening.

Thursday, Feb 10 at 12:30 pm / Hood Room / Book signing to follow

Cindy Funes

Cindy Funes, CPH—Owner and container garden designer, Garden Revelry

As a Certified Professional Horticulturalist and owner of Garden Revelry LLC, Cindy Funes has been designing, installing, and maintaining container gardens in the Pacific Northwest since 2008. Along the way, her background in marketing, hands-on experience working with plants, and instructional support experience with Lake Washington Technical College's Horticulture Program has shaped her in becoming a successful client-centric business owner in horticulture with a flair for creating unique and interesting container garden compositions that complement their environment. Cindy loves people and plants and firmly believes that adding planted containers can help define a living space, giving it function, beauty and purpose. It’s also her belief that everyone has a creative side, and that the individuality we each can bring to our container plantings (and other pursuits!) is one of the great wonders of container gardening. Her passion is connecting with people, sharing the benefits of container gardening, along with the many nuggets of advice she has collected through the years while stirring the creative in everyone. Cindy enjoys helping people achieve their goals and hopes she can help you achieve yours. www.gardenrevelry.com

GARDEN 101: Bold, Beautiful and Bountiful Containers

Contained Brilliance: How to Container Garden Like a Pro

Container gardens are perfect for the space-challenged gardener or anyone who wants a bold expression in the garden. Learn from the pros to avoid making expensive mistakes and get great results. Cindy Funes will cover how to select containers, essential tools, soil basics, plant selection, design principles and color theory, showing you the best in Northwest container design. Next, Deborah Trickett will convince you that flowers aren’t needed for lush, colorful, easy-care foliage containers that pack a punch and show off your personal style. From the basics of foliage color, texture and contrast to design ideas to great plant selections, you’ll be saying “Look Ma, No Flowers!” this summer. Finally, Sue Goetz shows you how potted herbs can create a feast of flavorings to place near outdoor kitchens, medicinal herbs for mini healing gardens, tea herbs in a sanctuary space, or aromatherapy with fragrant plants near outdoor seating areas.

Sunday, Feb 13 at 2:00 pm / Rainier Room

Sue Goetz

Sue Goetz CPH, EcoPro—Owner, Creative Gardener and author, Complete Container Herb Gardening and A Taste for Herbs

Sue Goetz is an award-winning garden designer, writer, and speaker. She is the author of three books: Complete Container Herb Gardening (Cool Springs Press, 2020), A Taste for Herbs (St. Lynn's Press, 2019), and The Herb Lover's Spa Book (St. Lynn's Press, 2015). Through her business, Creative Gardener, she works with clients to personalize outdoor space, from garden coaching to complete landscape design. Sue is also staff designer at Watson's Nursery in Puyallup, WA. Her garden design work has earned Gold medals at the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival and specialty awards, including the Sunset Magazine award, Fine Gardening magazine award, and The American Horticultural Society Award. Writing and speaking are other ways Sue shares her love of gardening. Her motto "inspiring gardeners to create" defines her talks, hands-on workshops and ways to inspire creativity in and out of the garden. Sue has been named Educator of the Year by the Washington State Nursery and Landscape Association and shares her love of the garden and herb growing with talks featured all over the U.S. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including APLD Designer, Pacific Horticulture and Fine Gardening magazines. www.thecreativegardener.com

Garden Design for Bees, Butterflies, and Other Good Things!

Gardening for pollinators is becoming more vital than ever as we strip away habitat. But there’s a lot a home gardener can do and reap the enjoyment of a beautiful garden along with helping nature. Discover how to design a garden that is bee-friendly and attracts other pollinators, techniques to add pollinator plantings to existing borders, create meadow gardens, and even small container gardens. Find out the best plants to grow and all you need to know for a healthy, sustainable pollinator-attracting garden.

Wednesday, Feb 9 at 9:30 am / Hood Room / Book signing to follow

Container Wars

Once again we’ve lined up leading garden designers and writers to “battle it out” in our highly acclaimed “Container Wars.” Containers can go virtually anywhere—patios, decks and balconies or even in the garden! Drawing from identical plant materials, Sue Goetz and Lorene Edwards Forkner will each create three gorgeous containers—all in under an hour! Working against the clock, and with fun “challenges” thrown at them by Master of Ceremonies Marianne Binetti, see how they pull together plants and share their tips for designing luscious container gardens. Learning about plants has never been so fun!

Wednesday, Feb 9 at 11:30 am / Main Stage in North Hall

A Taste for Herbs

Infuse, blend, mix, season, and capture the flavor of herbs from your garden. Create herb vinegars, syrups, dried seasoning mixes, salt rubs for grilling, and more. Make flavor mixes from the garden to infuse cocktails and tea with syrups and add zing to greens and salads with vinegar and oils. Sue will inspire you with growing, harvesting, and delicious, healthful recipes—all using herbs from your garden. Come for a show and smell!

Wednesday, Feb 9 at 3:15 pm / DIY Stage / Book signing to follow

GARDEN 101: Bold, Beautiful and Bountiful Containers

Potted Herb Gardens for Health and Wellness

Sunday, Feb 13 at 2:00 pm / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

Jeff Gordon

Jeff Gordon—Owner, Daisy Rain Garden Systems and inventor of Sprinkler Pot

Jeff Gordon has worked in landscaping since he was a child. Today he is the owner of Daisy Rain Garden Systems in Hillsboro, Oregon and the inventor of the Sprinkler Pot. For four years he has been one of the Pacific Northwest's top experts on container gardening and drip irrigation. Jeff approaches his gardens with the philosophy that the most important part of growing a garden is before the first seed or starter is planted; planning the right set-up and plants at the start will save a lot of effort and maintenance during the season, which means more time to enjoy your garden. Jeff is a contributor to “Garden Time” TV in Portland, Oregon, and has been a guest on garden podcasts such as “Spoken Garden” and the nationally-syndicated radio program “Things Green” with Nick Federoff. He also has made appearances on the DIY Network and has contributed to many garden blogs and guides. Visit the Daisy Rain Garden Systems, booth #2251 in the South Hall, at this year’s show.

https://daisyraingarden.com

Drip Irrigation for a Lush Landscape

The key to a successful garden is consistent, adequate watering. Come learn the difference between surface, sprinkler, and drip irrigation and determine the best approach to keeping your plants healthy and thriving. You will learn about water-saving techniques, ideal materials, installing and maintaining irrigation systems, and much more. Special focus will be given to different types of drip irrigation and strategies to set gardens up with drip irrigation that is both effective and durable, saving you water—and money.

Friday, Feb 11 at 12:30 pm / Hood Room

The Ins and Outs of Irrigation: Choosing A Watering System for You

Saturday, Feb 12 at 10:00 am / DIY Stage

Margie Grace

Margie Grace—Award-winning founder and principal, Grace Design Associates and author, Private Gardens of Santa Barbara

With an impressive career spanning over three decades, Margie Grace’s landscape design portfolio is celebrated both locally and internationally. Now she gives an exclusive tour of the lush gardens of Santa Barbara in her first book: Private Gardens of Santa Barbara: The Art of Outdoor Living (Gibbs Smith, 2020). Working across styles, designing gardens for historically significant estate properties, relaxed bungalows, or coastal family retreats, Margie takes her cues from her clients, their lifestyle, the architecture of the property, and the land itself. Grace Design Associates sculpts the terrain to mimic nature and layers on essential elements—organic materials, stone and plantings—to create a dynamic, living ecosystem that supports the local biome and utilizes water in the most efficient and considered way. Margie and her team have also developed expertise in the design and construction of environmentally sensitive landscapes, with particular attention paid to soil and water conservation, biodiversity, and fire-smart landscaping. Margie earned her degree in life and earth sciences from UCSC, supplemented by coursework at UCLA in Landscape Architecture, and has since designed, from concept to completion, over 350 projects. Margie’s work has been featured in top publications throughout the world including Garden Design, Traditional Home, Better Homes and Gardens, Veranda, Luxe, Sunset, Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal. Margie has been honored with numerous design awards including the prestigious International Landscape Designer of the Year award from the Association of Professional Landscape Designers, which she was awarded for the second time in 2018. www.gracedesignassociates.com

Demand More from Your Garden: Multi-tasking Landscape Elements and Hard-Working Plants

Having a garden is very nurturing, but it can take a lot of work. Manual labor, late nights poring over the garden books or the internet, and pests and diseases. Why not max out the benefits of your blood, sweat, and resources with tips and techniques from Margie’s “work smarter, not harder” handbook? Margie shares her own tricks of the trade to make sure the elements are on your side as you create your own resilient garden of enduring beauty.

Wednesday, Feb 9 at 4:30 pm / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

Heart and Soul: Expressing Your Personality in the Garden

Do you want to add a little whimsy in the garden, some unique hidden surprises or unexpected moments, while still maintaining its overall visual appeal and integrity? Margie will show you how to incorporate your own unique personality and taste into an elegant and timeless landscape that shows off your personality with flair, from choosing plants with attitude to selecting finishes and details that bring the “WOW factor.”

Thursday, Feb 10 at 1:00 pm / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

Joe Grienauer

Joe Grienauer—Orchid expert and owner, Emerald City Orchids and 2022 Show Garden Co-Creator

Joe Grienauer began working with orchids professionally in 2004 at Baron’s Orchids in Morro Bay, CA. In 2008, he established Emerald City Orchids in the garage of a rented house in Seattle, Washington. Emerald City Orchids has since grown into their greenhouses located in historic South Tacoma, which are open to the public and have the Pacific Northwest’s largest selection of orchid plants available for wholesale and retail trade. Joe is a two-time Northwest Flower and Garden Festival Gold medal winning garden designer, working on behalf of the Northwest Orchid Society. He currently serves as the Northwest Orchid Society President and has received special recognition from the American Orchid Society for his continued efforts to promote the Northwest Orchid Society and their mission of public outreach, orchid conservation and education. Joe has presented seminars to other orchid societies nationwide, as well as garden clubs and retail nurseries. Visit the Emerald City Orchids booth, #2228 at this year’s garden festival. Don’t miss the beautiful show garden co-created by Joe and the Northwest Orchid Society. www.emeraldcityorchids.com

Growing Orchids Like a Pro

Joe will help you get orchids that you treasure with this great hands-on demonstration. He’ll cover basic orchid background, cultural requirements, care, fertilization, and pest/disease control and reblooming. He’ll review greenhouse vs. window vs. artificial light growing techniques, how to initiate flowers on a healthy plant, which orchids are best for newbies, demo orchid repotting and mounting an orchid to a piece of wood. Even brown thumbs can grow orchids if you learn the basic techniques!

Saturday, Feb 12 at 1:30 pm / DIY Stage

Robin Haglund

Robin Haglund—Educator, founder and president of Garden Mentors®

Robin Haglund is the founder and president of gardening education firm Garden Mentors® which empowers struggling gardeners to succeed in growing their gardening skills so that they can stop repeating expensive gardening mistakes and find joy, fulfillment, and success cultivating their dream gardens through building their gardening knowledge and skills. Robin’s latest innovation is a series of online gardening courses where anyone, anywhere can grow with Robin’s diverse, knowledgeable guidance. Robin is an HGTV, NWFGF, WALP, and WSNLA award-winning designer, an avid herbalist, a down-to-earth speaker, a popular writer and a frequent garden television and podcast expert guest and contributor. In her free time, she leads nature walks, educating fellow hikers about wild flora and fauna. Her popular articles, videos, and classes are infused with vibrant anecdotes derived from her childhood and middle age on farms and in city gardens around the world, her daily adventures with plants, pollinators, pets and wildlife in the natural world, and her garden teaching experiences imparting successful gardening, herbalist and naturalist practices to all levels. Robin’s design insights and plant knowledge have been featured in The New York Times, Sunset Magazine, The Seattle Times, Organic Gardening Magazine, PBS’s “Growing a Greener World TV,” HGTV’s “Landscaper’s Challenge,” Living HomeGrown Podcast, The Herbalist’s Path Podcast, A Dry Rain Podcast, MSN, The Lawyer Who Rocks Podcast, Garden Mentors® Blog, and several books.

www.gardenmentors.com

Herbal Happy Hour Garden Mixology

Take your fancy mock- & cocktails to the next level! In this hands-on presentation drafted from the Garden Mentors Herbal Happy Hour Garden-to-Bar program, Robin demonstrates how to craft tantalizingly tasty & beautiful libations with your herbal happy hour garden plant infusions. From the rich and nutty to the sweet and floral to the tangy and juicy, she’ll surprise you with some unique combinations to grow, blend, pour & sip at home from your garden. And when you DIY from homegrown, you’ll save that pricey bar tab to spend on more happy hour garden plants to grow instead! Follow #herbalhappyhourgarden on Instagram for previews.

Saturday, Feb 12 at 3:15 pm / DIY Stage

Container Wars

Once again we’ve lined up leading garden designers and writers to “battle it out” in our highly acclaimed “Container Wars.” Containers can go virtually anywhere—patios, decks and balconies or even in the garden! Drawing from identical plant materials, Robin Haglund and Deborah Trickett will each create three gorgeous containers—all in under an hour! Working against the clock, and with fun “challenges” thrown at them by Master of Ceremonies Marianne Binetti, see how they pull together plants and share their tips for designing luscious container gardens. Learning about plants has never been so fun!

Sunday, Feb 13 at 11:30 am / Main Stage in North Hall

Herbalicious DIY: Homegrown, Foraged & Homemade

In this step-by-step presentation drawn from popular Garden Mentors online courses, herbalist Robin Haglund demonstrates crafting an array of useful plant-based goods. Employing easy-to-grow homegrown herbs of all kinds, foraged native blooms & erstwhile weeds, she’ll show you how easy & cost-effective it is to DIY homemade body care, herb-infused potables & more. You’ll come away empowered to grow, forage & craft your own handmade gifts & goods.

Sunday, Feb 13 at 1:30 pm / DIY Stage

Saxon Holt

Saxon Holt—Award-winning photojournalist and co-author, Gardening in Summer-Dry Climates and Good Garden Photography

Saxon Holt directs the Summer-Dry Project, an initiative to provide gardeners with plant information and photos that inspire sustainable, climate adapted gardens in the summer-dry climates of the Pacific West Coast, from Baja to BC, where winters can be wet even though summers are dry. This includes working with California’s WUCOLS landscape plant database (Water Use Classification of Landscape Species) and a new book, Gardening in Summer-Dry Climates: Plants for a Lush, Water-Conscious Landscape, (Timber Press, 2021). Saxon is a photojournalist who has spent more than 40 years exploring Kingdom Plantae and the fundamental importance of plants to the health of the planet. Gardening in Summer-Dry Climates is his 30th book. His work increasingly focuses on the relationship between gardens and the land, seeking a sustainable aesthetic that can enhance both gardener and the earth. The Summer-Dry.com website has regular blog postings on plant information and a database of photos. He also licenses his archive of garden photography at Photobotanic.com, where he publishes articles on plants and gardens, teaches garden photography and also authored Good Garden Photography (Photobotanic, 2015), which won the Gold award for Best Overall Garden Book for 2014 from the Garden Writer’s Association. He is a member of ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers), a Board member at Pacific Horticulture Society, and a Fellow of GardenComm (Garden Communicators International). “And now, in the midst of tumultuous climate change, we realize it's all the more important the gardeners be stewards of the land, attuned to the local environment on behalf of all creatures. Every small act we do adds resiliency.”

In Focus: Good Gardens Need Good Photographs

As our gardens become increasingly naturalistic our definition of beauty is evolving to consider wildness and all the creatures that use gardens. These gardens are hard to photograph and too often come off as disheveled. If we expect to promote a new aesthetic in a social media world all gardeners need good photos. Learn from garden photographer Saxon Holt and his award-winning e-book Good Garden Photography how any camera sees beauty.

Thursday, Feb 10 at 2:00 pm / Hood Room / Book signing to follow

Gardening in Summer-Dry Climates

The presentation by garden photographer Saxon Holt will derive from the new book Gardening in Summer-Dry Climates, (Timber Press, 2021) and focus on expanding our climate conversation to include the entire Pacific Coast as summer-dry, since all of it cannot be considered mediterranean. The book is primarily a plant guide and his presentation will focus on creating healthy ecotone gardens using specific plants in NW gardens that are climate tolerant, as opposed to drought tolerant.

Friday, Feb 11 at 10:00 am / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

Ginger Hudson

Ginger Hudson—Director, Jensen-Olson Arboretum, landscape designer and master gardener

Ginger Hudson is the current Director of the Jensen-Olson Arboretum in Juneau, Alaska. As manager of the Arboretum, Ginger oversees the care of a fourteen-acre maritime climate arboretum and botanical garden which houses the Nationally Accredited Plant Collection^TM for Primula. Unpredictable climatology is presenting challenges to maintaining the Primula collection yet offering the opportunity to trial new species. Prior to that Ginger operated her own landscape design and garden education business in Anchorage. She was the Special Horticulture Projects Manager at the Alaska Botanical Garden in Anchorage for three years. Before moving to the cool climate of Alaska, Ginger operated a landscape design and education business in Austin, TX. Her experience helping people learn about landscape care led her to write A Guide to Landscape Maintenance for Central Texas Gardens, an ebook available at the Apple Bookstore. While in Austin she taught design classes and led plant walks at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. She has appeared many times on KLRU TV’s Central Texas Gardener; served as a guest for environmental writing and gardening on KTNA, KAKM, and KTOO in Alaska; been a presenter on small public gardens for APGA; spoken to regional and statewide organizations on the basics of landscape design and edible plants; and spoken about her current biographical subject, Verna Pratt, Alaska’s beloved wildflower expert. Ginger is an active Master Gardener, and native plant and rock garden society member. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska Anchorage and an Environmental Design degree from Texas A&M University.

GARDEN 101: Gardening for Resilience

Gardening in Alaska’s Jensen-Olson Arboretum

Wednesday, Feb 9 at 2:30 pm / Rainier Room

Mary-Kate Mackey

Mary-Kate Mackey—Award-winning garden writer, speaker and co-author, The Healthy Garden: Simple Steps for a Greener World

Mary-Kate Mackey is a lively and engaging speaker, writer, and teacher. She has presented talks at major garden shows around the U.S. and is glad to be returning to the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival stage. She’s received numerous writing awards from Garden Communicators International, including a 2021 Gold Medal for her “Rooting for You” blog on the Hartley-Botanic Greenhouse website. Her latest book is The Healthy Garden: Simple Steps for a Greener World, co-authored with Sunset Western Garden Book editor, Kathleen Norris Brenzel (Abrams, 2021). Her byline has appeared in numerous national publications, such as Fine Gardening, Horticulture, and This Old House. She’s a contributor to the Sunset Western Garden Book and Sunset’s Gardening in the Northwest. Mary-Kate is also the author of Write Better Right Now (Career Press, 2017).

Five Easy Elements for a Healthy Garden

In a healthy garden, plants can thrive without massive infusions of chemicals or time spent on continual upkeep. Garden author Mary-Kate Mackey focuses on five steps you can take to boost your garden’s resilience and vigor, while supporting a wide diversity of wildlife. The bonus? Much less work for you and more time to enjoy your outdoor space—whether you’re caring for a collection of containers or acres of beds and borders.

Wednesday, Feb 9 at 5:00 pm / Hood Room / Book signing to follow

Susan Maki

Susan Maki—Designer, buyer, and houseplant merchandise manager for Squak Mountain Nursery

Susan Maki is a designer, buyer, and houseplant merchandise manager for Squak Mountain Nursery in Issaquah, Washington. She holds a BA from Texas A&M University and a Certificate in Horticulture from Lake Washington Institute of Technology where she also served a teaching assistant for the Horticulture program. A lifelong learner, she has taken floral design and interior gardening classes from professionals around the world, including Guatemala, Scotland, Italy, Britain, Canada, New York, California and Washington. www.squakmtnursery.com

Light, Water, Action! How to Grow Beautiful Houseplants

Are you new to the houseplant obsession? This seminar is for you! Susan will begin with the basics of light, selection, watering and fertilizing. She’ll help you decipher ambiguous light labels, and really understand and measure your light, so you can best decide where your houseplants should go. She’ll also help you match your plants to your personality and lifestyle—nurturer or neglector— to better choose your plant family. Finally, you’ll gain an understanding how to care for your plants, which is critical to your success.

Friday, Feb 11 at 11:45 am / DIY Stage

Sean and Allison McManus

Sean and Allison McManus—Co-owners of Spoken Garden, co-authors of The First-time Gardener: Growing Plants and Flowers, and YouTube channel hosts

Sean and Allison McManus are the Tacoma-based co-owners of Spoken Garden. Sean McManus is the content creator and Head of Podcast Production, along with horticulturist, podcaster, blogger, and video content creator. Past positions include Landscape and Project Coordinator, Senior Gardener and Landscaper, Research and Teaching Assistant, Assistant Greenhouse Grower. Sean has a Bachelors and Masters of Science in Environmental Horticulture.

Allison McManus is the content creator and Head of Video Production, along with photographer, podcaster, blogger, and video content creator. Her past positions include National Board-Certified Science Educator and former middle school Science Teacher for 13 years, life-long gardener and natural outdoor enthusiast. She has a Master of Education in Teaching with National Board Certification.

Together Sean and Allison are co-authors of The First-time Gardener: Growing Plants and Flowers (Cool Springs Press, 2021). You can find their videos at Spoken Garden on YouTube. Sean and Allison have been guests on Niki Jabbour’s Weekend Gardener, Debra Prinzing’s Slow Flowers Society, and Cottage in the Court podcasts, as well as the Gardening with Joey and Holly podcast/radio show on Garden Talk Radio. They are both members of Garden Communicators International. www.spokengarden.com.

Stress-free Planting Advice, Best Practices, and Plant Recipes for New Gardeners

Growing plants and flowers can be overwhelming for new gardeners. Whether adding to an established garden or starting from scratch, learn horticultural best practices for planting, watering, and otherwise tending to your plants so they can live their best lives. Plus, gain ideas for new plants and flowers to add to your garden with “plant recipes” to take home.

Saturday, Feb 12 at 6:30 pm / Hood Room / Book signing to follow

Planting Crash Course for Beginners: Seeds, Seedlings, Bulbs & Plants

Are you confused or intimidated about adding plants or sowing seeds? If you’re a new gardener (or just want a refresher) learn valuable hands-on skills and best practices for planting your seeds, seedlings, bulbs, and plants with confidence. You’ll take away and apply planting skills to help your plants thrive, including correct planting depth, spacing, proper handling, and the materials and tools you need to get the job done.

Sunday, Feb 13 at 11:45 am / DIY Stage / Book signing to follow

Scot Medbury

Scot Medbury – 2022 Show Judge and Executive Director, Sonoma Botanical Garden

Scot Medbury has been involved in the curation, cultivation, and interpretation of acclaimed botanical garden collections for over 40 years. He completed undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Washington and went on to become director of the San Francisco Botanical Garden and the Conservatory for Flowers in Golden Gate Park. He then was appointed Brooklyn Botanic Garden's President and CEO, serving for 15 years and leading a $125 million capital campaign and a decade of major renovation. He returned to the West in 2020 to become the Executive Director of Sonoma Botanical Garden, formerly Quarryhill. The garden has one of the largest collections of wild-source Asian plants in North America, including rare magnolias, rhododendrons, maples and other species, and has recently expanded its mission to also highlight California’s endangered native plants. www.sonomabg.org

Scot Medbury’s appearance sponsored by

The Hardy Plant Society of Oregon.

Reimagining Sonoma’s Spectacular Botanical Garden

Tucked against the rugged foothills of the Mayacamas Mountains in the famed Sonoma Valley of Northern California, the Sonoma Botanical Garden is relaunching itself as a more relevant resource for gardeners in a wildly changing climate. The 35-year-old institution – formerly known as Quarryhill – has recently expanded its mission to embrace the cultivation and interpretation of the native flora of California, in addition to its historic focus on wild-collected Asian plants. Both its stunning collections of Asian magnolias, maples and other rarities will be featured, along with awe-inspiring California oak-savannah and chapparal plant communities.

Wednesday, Feb 9 at 1:00 pm / Rainier Room

The Not-Hardy Plant Society

Oregon’s coastal Curry County, in the remote southwestern-most corner of the state, supports the cultivation of a wide range of tender plants, making for what is arguably the hands-down best gardening climate in the United States. Southern hemisphere introductions from Tasmania, Chile, New Zealand and a range of oceanic islands thrive in ways not seen either north or south along the coast, as do citrus and other subtropicals. Forget “Zonal Denial” – here is a place where what you cannot grow is not very much (i.e. you can grow pretty much everything!).

Thursday, Feb 10 at 4:30 pm / Rainier Room

Diane Miessler

Diane Miessler—Certified Permaculture Designer, compost goddess and author, Grow Your Soil

Diane Miessler is a certified permaculture designer, science aficionado, gardener with 50 years’ experience, and avid napper. Her book on soil science, with a forward by Dr. Elaine Ingham, is Grow Your Soil: Harness the Power of the Soil Food Web for Your Best Garden Ever (Storey, 2020). It covers soil science in a conversational, entertaining way and gives down-to-earth advice on how to easily build healthy, living soil in your own garden, including the use of mulch, cover crops, compost, and compost tea. Grow Your Soil was selected as one of the top ten gardening books of 2020 by The American Horticultural Society. Diane lives in Nevada City, California with her amiable husband and two ill-behaved little dogs. She is a popular columnist for her local newspaper, The Union.

www.dianemiessler.com

How to Make Compost Tea: It’s Not Rocket Science

In this seminar, Diane will discuss the Soil Food Web and why you love it, give a quick tutorial on making compost, and demonstrate how to make compost tea. All attendees will leave with a basic knowledge of the soil food web—what it comprises and what it does; information that will enable them to make healthy, wormy compost; and knowledge of how to make easy compost tea with simple, readily-available equipment. At the end of the seminar there will be a drawing and some lucky attendee will leave with a compost tea kit!

Thursday, Feb 10 at 3:15 pm / DIY Stage / Book signing to follow

Friday, Feb 11 at 1:30 pm / DIY Stage / Book signing to follow

Ciscoe Morris

Ciscoe Morris—Award-winning radio, TV host, columnist and best-selling author, Ask Ciscoe and Oh La La!

Ciscoe Morris directed the gardening and landscaping at Seattle University for 24 years. During his tenure, the University won several prestigious awards including the EPA’s highest national environmental award. The program he developed led Seattle University to be the only University campus in Washington designated as a wildlife sanctuary. In 2020 he was the recipient of the B.Y. Morrison Communications award from the American Horticultural Society (AHS). Other awards include Washington State Nursery & Landscape Association Educator of the Year, Alumni of the Year Award from South Seattle Community College, the King County ‘Earth Hero Award’, and ‘Master Gardener of the Year’. Ciscoe has been a longtime WSU Master Gardener, an ISA Certified Arborist and a WSNLA Horticulturist. He has a distinguished media career and still makes frequent appearances on King5 New Day and King5 Evening. Ciscoe wrote a weekly column in the Seattle Post Intelligencer followed by the Seattle Times for over 17 years, and his book, Ask Ciscoe: Oh la la! Your Gardening Questions Answered (Sasquatch, 2006) was a national bestseller. His second book, Oh, La La! Homegrown Stories, Helpful Tips and Garden Wisdom (Sasquatch, 2020) was also an Amazon best seller. Ciscoe’s home garden has been featured in many local and national publications. Despite giving close to 100 garden talks a year, Ciscoe regularly leads garden tours to countries all over the world. www.ciscoe.com

These Are a Few of Our Favorite Plants

Every week, Ciscoe Morris, Nita-Jo Rountree and Daniel Sparler each choose a plant from their spectacular gardens to feature on the Bellevue Botanical Garden Society’s Facebook live channel in ‘Plant of the Week.’ Now they will choose their absolute favorite plants to share with you in 60 entertaining minutes. Besides stunning visuals, you will learn interesting facts about the plant, how to care for it, and why these three avid “hort-heads” think it should be in your garden! Bring your pen and paper because this is a list you will want to make!

Friday, Feb 11 at 4:30 pm / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

GARDEN 101: What’s Bugging Your Garden?

Bugs: The Hidden World in the Garden

Saturday, Feb 12 at 2:30 pm / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

Susan Mulvihill

Susan Mulvihill—Author, Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook, co-author, Northwest Gardener’s Handbook and garden columnist for Spokesman Review

Susan Mulvihill has been the garden columnist for Eastern Washington’s Spokesman Review for over 14 years. She is the author of The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook (Cool Springs Press, 2021) and the co-author of Northwest Gardener’s Handbook (Cool Springs Press, 2014). She is also the author and owner of Susan’s in the Garden website and blog. Susan has received the 2019 Media Award from the Washington State Master Gardener Foundation, 2019 Silver Medal in the category of Writing: Newspaper Column, and 2017 Silver Medal in the category of Digital Media: Website for the design of SusansintheGarden.com. Susan has been a Spokane County Master Gardener since 2002. Susan’s many media appearances include the Joe Gardener podcast with Joe Lamp’l and Growing a Greener World TV on PBS, the Epic Gardener podcast with Kevin Espiritu, The Weekend Gardener with Niki Jabbour, Gardenerd with Christy Wilhelmi and the Better Lawns & Gardens radio show. www.susansinthegarden.com

GARDEN 101: Grow Your Edible Gardening Skills

Organic Control of Vegetable Garden Pests

It seems everyone started edible gardening in 2020, for health, safety and the delicious rewards! Here are three great seminars by the pros that will help you squeeze even more fruit in your garden, discover ways to beat those pesky pests, and extend your garden season with tasty winter edibles. Christy Wilhelmi shares techniques and strategies to grow fruit, even if you only have a balcony, patio, or small garden to work with. Explore Backyard Orchard Culture methods, container gardening tips, pruning guidelines, pest management and soil prep for an abundant, healthy garden. Next Susan Mulvihill covers 10 simple steps you can take in your garden to keep your plants healthy and better able to withstand pest attacks, how to identify bugs before taking any action, and increase your knowledge of the most damaging pests and simple organic methods that effectively control them. Finally, Bill Thorness shows you how you can grow vegetables year round! Learn how to build or find the best winter-growing devices, when to use them and what to grow under them. Tap into season extension and discover the many ways you can keep harvesting all year.

Friday, Feb 11 at 2:30 pm / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

GARDEN 101: What’s Bugging Your Garden?

Attract More Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden

Saturday, Feb 12 at 2:30 pm / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

Emily Murphy

Emily Murphy—Author, GROW NOW and Grow What You Love and blogger, passthepistil.com

Emily Murphy is a regenerative organic gardener, photographer, and designer and the author of GROW NOW: How We Can Save Our Health, Communities and Planet—One Garden at a Time (Timber Press, 2022) and the best-selling book, Grow What You Love (Firefly Books, 2018). She studied ethnobotany, environmental science, and garden design and pursues a plant-driven life fueled by inspiration from the simple act of growing. Emily is the creator of the celebrated blog Pass The Pistil. She’s dedicated to garden education and rewilding the spaces closest to home. Emily has appeared on NBC’s Today Show, The Marilyn Denis Show, and the Well+Good podcast, and her writings can be found nationally and internationally in publications such as Reader’s Digest Canada, Pacific Horticulture Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Mother Earth News, The North Coast Journal, and Better Homes & Gardens. www.passthepistil.com

GARDEN 101: Gardening for Resilience

Saving Our Health, Communities, and Planet—One Garden at a Time

Wednesday, Feb 9 at 2:30 pm / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

Support Biodiversity with No-dig, Regenerative Gardening

In this seminar author Emily Murphy provides a framework for supporting biodiversity from the ground up—beginning at home in your garden. According to a 2019 U.N. report, 1 million plant and animal species are threatened with extinction in the coming decades—it’s an unprecedented number! However, your home garden, community plots, or cityscape has the power to support biodiversity and at-risk species such as pollinators, birds, insects, and rare plant life—particularly when you grow with no-dig, regenerative techniques.

Thursday, Feb 10 at 6:30 pm / Hood Room / Book signing to follow

Charlie Nardozzi

Charlie Nardozzi—Regional Emmy award-winning radio, TV host and author, Gardening Complete, Foodscaping and No-Dig Gardening

Charlie Nardozzi is a nationally recognized award-winning garden writer, speaker, radio, and television personality. For more than 30 years he has brought expert gardening advice to home gardeners through radio, television, talks, on-line, and the printed page. Charlie delights in making gardening information simple, easy, fun, and accessible to everyone. He has spoken at the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival and the Philadelphia Flower Show and Master Gardener conferences. He has a master’s degree in Education and Bachelors in Horticulture. Charlie co-hosts “In the Garden” tips on the local CBS affiliate television station, a weekly, call-in radio show and the award-winning “All Things Gardening” on Vermont Public Radio. He is the host of the weekly Connecticut Garden Journal radio show on Connecticut Public. Charlie received a Regional Emmy in 2021 for his work on the Connecticut Public Television Special, “Gardening in New England with Charlie Nardozzi.” Charlie has written for national magazines such as Organic Gardening and contributed to many of the Gardening for Dummies titles, authoring Urban Gardening for Dummies (Wiley Books, 2013) and Vegetable Gardening for Dummies (IDG Books, 2009) along with three books from Cool Springs Press: Foodscaping, (2015), Gardening Complete: How to Best Grow Vegetables, Flowers and Other Outdoor Plants, (2018), and his latest book, The Complete Guide to No-Dig Gardening (Cool Springs Press, 2020). Charlie formerly hosted PBS’s Garden Smart, reaching more than 60 million households, and has been a gardening expert on HGTV’s Today at Home, Discovery Channel’s Home Matters, Sirius Radio’s Martha Stewart Living, and Garden Life Radio. He also consults with Velcro USA and Gardener's Supply Company. Charlies leads international garden tours to Italy, France, Cuba, and Great Britain. Charlie’s appearance is sponsored by Gardeners Supply Company. https://www.gardeningwithcharlie.com/

GARDEN 101: All the Right Cuts

How to Plant a “Prune-less Garden”

Thursday, Feb 10 at 2:30 pm / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

Container Wars

Once again we’ve lined up leading garden designers and writers to “battle it out” in our highly acclaimed “Container Wars.” Containers can go virtually anywhere—patios, decks and balconies or even in the garden! Drawing from identical plant materials, Charlie Nardozzi and Karen Chapman will each create three gorgeous containers—all in under an hour! Working against the clock, and with fun “challenges” thrown at them by Master of Ceremonies Marianne Binetti, see how they pull together plants and share their tips for designing luscious container gardens. Learning about plants has never been so fun!

Friday, Feb 11 at 11:30 am / Main Stage in North Hall

The Complete Guide to No-Dig Gardening

Many vegetable and flower gardeners are looking for new ways to garden without harming the ecosystem and soil. Traditional annual gardening usually involves tilling, digging and turning the soil yearly. However, that destroys much of the soil life you are trying to enhance. No-Dig Gardening offers a new way by mimicking natural systems and building healthy soil with less work, less weeds and less need for watering and fertilizing. Discover ways to set up, plant, maintain, and overwinter no-dig beds. You (and your back) will be glad you did!

Friday, Feb 11 at 2:00 pm / Hood Room / Book signing to follow

No More Square Shrubs: Fundamentals of Pruning Shrubs and Trees

Many gardeners are often overwhelmed when they try to approach pruning a shrub or small tree. In this seminar, Charlie will help demystify pruning by talking about when to prune various flowering and non-flowering shrubs and trees, some basic pruning cuts you can do with all shrubs and trees, and how to renovate a plant that has gotten out of control. He'll also review pruning techniques for new trees, how to prune for more fruiting and the tools you'll need to do the job.

Saturday, Feb 12 at 11:45 am / DIY Stage / Book signing to follow

Adam and Jennifer O’Neal

Adam and Jennifer O’Neal—Owners, Pepperharrow Farm, popular YouTube hosts and co-authors, Small Farms, Big Dreams

Adam O’Neal is originally from south Louisiana and spent his childhood days playing in his backyard, the swamps within a local nature preserve. That early exposure to the wonders of nature and gardening grew into a passion for being outdoors and growing things. Adam has been a Master Gardener for many years and has had the pleasure of working and learning in several restored historic gardens throughout middle Tennessee.

Jennifer O’Neal is an Iowa native who inherited her grandmother and mother’s love of flowers. Jennifer was inspired by her summers spent on her grandparent's farm and in her mother’s garden, where she would spend long summer days helping the matriarchs in her family sow, tend, and harvest lush garden blooms. She is a Master Gardener, long-time floral designer, and flower farmer.

Together, Adam and Jennifer O’Neal own and operate PepperHarrow Farm, a 20 acre farm, where they cultivate flowers on 7.5 acres. They are decade-long cut-flower farmers, co-authors, and recognized speakers on cut-flower gardening. Adam and Jennifer’s first book, Small Farms, Big Dreams will be published in February 2022 by BLOOM Imprint. PepperHarrow Farm has been featured in Country Gardens, Better Homes & Gardens (online), BHG-Gardening for Health and Cottage Journal, among other publications. They have spoken at a number of flower farming and regional gardening conferences and host their own popular workshops and events at PepperHarrow Farm. You can find their videos at Pepperharrow Farm on YouTube. www.pepperharrowfarm.com

Container Wars

Once again we’ve lined up leading Speakers and writers to “battle it out” in our highly acclaimed “Container Wars.” Containers can go virtually anywhere—patios, decks and balconies or even in the garden! Drawing from identical plant materials, Adam and Jennifer O’Neal will each create three gorgeous containers—all in under an hour! Working against the clock, and with fun “challenges” thrown at them by Master of Ceremonies Marianne Binetti, see how they pull together plants and share their tips for designing luscious container gardens. Learning about plants has never been so fun!

Saturday, Feb 12 at 11:30 am / Main Stage in North Hall

Big Flower Dreams: Flower Farming Tips for the Backyard Cutting Garden

Meet the popular YouTube flower-growing couple whose videos have been viewed tens of thousands of times. Jennifer and Adam O'Neal, authors of the new book Small Farm, Big Dreams, introduce their floral-filled lifestyle and no-nonsense advice on successfully producing flowers—whether for your raised bed or a quarter-acre plot. They share more than a decade of know-how, sharing useful, rule-debunking tips, techniques and shortcuts for anyone who dreams of more home-grown flowers.

Saturday, Feb 12 at 3:30 pm / Hood Room / Book signing to follow

DIY Market Bouquets: Easy Tips from the Pros

Assembling a bouquet to take to market can seem overwhelming, but with a little inspiration and practical tips, expert flower growers Jennifer and Adam O’Neal will show you how to assemble beautiful flowers for a gorgeous presentation and how to use a market bouquet to create a stunning arrangement to grace any space.

Sunday, Feb 13 at 10:00 am / DIY Stage / Book signing to follow

Amy Pennington

Amy Pennington—Urban farmer and author, Salad Days, Urban Pantry, Apartment Gardening and Fresh Pantry

Amy Pennington is a cook, author, and urban farmer. She is the author of Urban Pantry (Skipstone, 2010), Apartment Gardening (Sasquatch, 2011), Apples: From Harvest to Table (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2013), Fresh Pantry (Skipstone, 2014) and Salad Days (Sasquatch, 2017). Amy has been named one of Bon Appetit magazine’s Tastemakers and Seattle Magazine’s fifty most powerful players in Seattle’s food scene. She has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Huffington Post, Martha Stewart magazine & radio, GOOP.com and Apartment Therapy. She runs GoGo Green Garden, based in Seattle, an urban farming service specializing in organic edible gardens for homes and businesses and writes about gardening across many print and online publications.

www.amy-pennington.com

What To Grow Now: A Garden Primer on Starting this Year’s Backyard Farm

An urban farmer, garden writer, nature lover, Amy has been growing food in damn near every neighborhood in the Seattle for over 15 years, and she has an intuitive sense for climate, sun and plant dispositions. Now you’ll gain her invaluable insights on what to go NOW—time and season-specific for anyone growing in the Pacific NW. Amy will discuss weather, sun and temperature and offers hyper-relevant tips and tricks on how to grow the most successful food garden. Let’s make this year the year to start off right!

Saturday, Feb 12 at 6:00 pm / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

Apartment Gardening: What to Grow for a Plentiful Harvest

Growing plants in containers is a tricky thing. There are plenty of resources available about growing food in containers that imply that this process is simple and straightforward—but most of us will find that it takes some trial and error. Learn what plants steer clear of and this year, focus on plants that are either very versatile in their culinary uses or will produce a generous harvest in a short amount of time. These edibles are based on plants that I have found to be great producers.

Sunday, Feb 13 at 1:30 pm / Hood Room / Book signing to follow

Christina Pfeiffer

Christina Pfeiffer—Horticulture consultant and educator, ISA certified arborist and co-author, Pacific Northwest Gardening Month-by-Month

Christina has worked in landscape horticulture, consulting, teaching, and writing for over 40 years. She has degrees in horticulture from Michigan State and the University of Washington and is an ISA Certified Arborist®. She’s been enamored by trees since her youth in the Midwest, lounging in the shade of large oaks in the summer and playing in the leaves in fall, experiences that colored her path to a career in landscape horticulture. Christina was impressed (overwhelmed) by the richness of gardening in this region when she arrived in the mid-1980’s. Her book, Pacific Northwest Gardening Month by Month, (Cool Springs Press, 2017), co-authored with Mary Robson, centers on sustainable techniques and timing that tap into the cycle of the seasons so that gardening becomes more of an enjoyable process and less of a battle.

GARDEN 101: All the Right Cuts

How to Plant a “Prune-less Garden”

Thursday, Feb 10 at 2:30 pm / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

How to Fix (and Avoid) the Most Common Pruning Mistakes

A well-pruned tree or shrub adds value and beauty to your landscape and ensures a healthier plant. If you’ve been down the path of unexpected results after well-intentioned pruning of shrubs and small trees, this seminar will help you figure out what kinds of pruning mistakes can be fixed, when and how to do it, and how to avoid some of the most common pruning errors.

Friday, Feb 11 at 5:00 pm / DIY Stage / Book signing to follow

Five Steps Toward a More Drought Resilient Garden

With warmer growing seasons becoming more the norm in the Pacific Northwest, tactics to conserve water while preserving vegetation is becoming even more essential. Moving past the basics of planting drought tolerant gardens, this talk will explain how different gardening practices can influence drought resiliency of all types of gardens. Learn how making some simple adjustments to a variety of garden tasks throughout the year can help build a more drought resilient garden.

Saturday, Feb 12 at 1:00 pm / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

Dr JJ Pursell

Dr. JJ Pursell—Naturopathic physician, Acupuncturist, Entrepreneur and author

Dr. JJ Pursell (she/her) is a graduate of NUNM with a doctorate in Naturopathic medicine and Masters in Acupuncture and Oriental medicine with a specialization in plant medicine. Her career has been a colorful journey in entrepreneurship, teaching, writing, research, product development and an ever-present dream state of creation. Inspiring others through public speaking and teaching brings her great joy by allowing the exchange and sharing of knowledge. A private practice specializing in pediatrics and geriatrics as well as writing and research fill up most of her time. Her latest project, a modern version of The Culpepper’s Herbal with Microcosm Press will join her previously published list of books in November 2022. Her four prior books, all from Timber Press, include The Herbal Apothecary (2015), Master Recipes of the Herbal Apothecary (2019), Medicinal Herbs for Immune Defense (2021), and Medicinal Herbs for Family Health and Wellness (2021). She is also the author of The Woman’s Apothecary (Fair Winds Press, 2018). Having grown up on her father’s flower farm, her love of creating beautiful places still resides and she spends all of her free time on her acreage manifesting secret spots of garden bliss. In recent years her professional journey has guided her back to the study and research of psychedelic medicine and the opportunities it presents to human healing. Having grown up in the city and on her fathers flower farm, her love of creating beautiful places still resides and she spends much of her free time on her acreage manifesting secret spots of garden bliss.

www.drjjpursell.com

Make Beautiful and Healing Container Gardens

Discover how to create perfectly balanced container gardens with healing herbs. This invaluable demonstration with detailed information will show you how to make a potted tea garden, a soothing mental health container, an herbal arrangement for immune health and a botanical filled first aid container. You’ll learn how to enhance your life and your health naturally. It’s a great way to start your path to natural wellness.

Friday, Feb 11 at 3:15 pm / DIY Stage / Book signing to follow

Gardening with Culpepper: The Healing Power of Herbs

Over 350 years ago Famed herbalist Nicholas Culpepper taught us the medicinal value of over 400 plants, a true gift from nature. His study of astrology also gave us valuable insight into how each herb relates to the human body. Join me on the Culpepper journey, from Adder’s Tongue to Yarrow, and learn to weave tradition and nature’s bounty into your modern gardens for natural beauty, sustainable health and healing herbs.

Saturday, Feb 12 at 10:00 am / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

Nita-Jo Rountree

Nita-Jo Rountree—Author, Growing Roses in the Pacific Northwest

Nita-Jo Rountree is a garden writer, speaker and educator. She is the author of Growing Roses in the Pacific Northwest (Sasquatch, 2017). Nita-Jo is a lifetime Georgia Master Gardener and former owner of LeGrand Gardens, a landscape design and installation company in Atlanta, Georgia. She currently serves on the board of directors of the Bellevue Botanical Garden Society, is a member of the Heronswood Garden Steering Committee, and serves on the advisory board of the Northwest Horticultural Society, of which she is a former president. Nita-Jo has spoken at the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival and the Yard, Garden & Patio Show in Portland, where she has also been a judge. Additionally, she was a frequent guest and substitute host on Gardening with Ciscoe. Her personal garden was featured on the HGTV television show Gardening by the Yard and in the Pacific Northwest Magazine section of the Sunday Seattle Times. https://www.facebook.com/nitajo.rountree

These Are a Few of Our Favorite Plants

Friday, Feb 11 at 4:30 pm / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

Including Gorgeous Roses in your Garden

By using garden design principles, it’s easy to illustrate how to successfully use various types of roses in mixed beds as well as in formal designs. Mouth-watering photographic examples of disease-free roses that are a delight for the senses will be highlighted, along with ideas for beautiful companion plants. Learn that by selecting the right rose for the right place and by giving them average care, you can have fragrant beautiful roses that are disease-free in your garden. It’s exciting to grow roses again!

Saturday, Feb 12 at 12:30 pm / Hood Room / Book signing to follow

John Shewey

John Shewey—Author, The Hummingbird Handbook and co-author, Birds of the Pacific Northwest

John Shewey is a veteran writer, editor, public speaker, and professional outdoor photographer, with credits in dozens of magazines. His latest book, The Hummingbird Handbook (Timber Press, 2021) is a beautifully photographed, entertaining, fun-filled guide for anyone who loves hummingbirds and wants to attract them to their yard. John is also the co-author of Birds of the Pacific Northwest, a Timber Press Field Guide released in 2017. John has photographed wildlife and wildflowers from the mountains of Alaska to the jungles of Central America to the islands of the Caribbean, and his website chronicles many of these travels in rich photographic detail. www.birdingoregon.com

For the Love of Hummingbirds

Hummingbirds amaze and intrigue us. Their high-speed enigmatic lifestyles are a blur; their startling colors and exotic behaviors are delights. Hummingbirds also inspire us—they are like tiny ambassadors with the power to usher people into a deeper interest in and appreciation for the natural world. Join John for this fun-filled program and learn how to attract hummingbirds with their favorite flowers and astute gardening techniques; learn how to cater to them, and how to be a great hummingbird host in your yard.

Wednesday, Feb 9 at 3:30 pm / Hood Room / Book signing to follow

Daniel Sparler

Daniel Sparler—Compulsive plant collector, gardener extraordinaire and botanical Latin maestro

Daniel thought he had left gardening behind when he washed up on Seattle’s shores in 1981 after his first two decades of life in agrarian Arkansas. But 11 years later, having acquired a Seward Park house surrounded by a long neglected, sprawling lot, he quickly succumbed to floral and foliar fever, which soon progressed to a full-blown and likely terminal case of CPC – compulsive plant collecting. Within a few years he and his long-suffering husband Jeffrey had cobbled together a notorious but much-photographed garden brimming over with thousands of distinct taxa of plants from all corners of the globe. Now in his second stint on the board of the Northwest Horticultural Society (having previously been on from 2006-2012), Daniel also serves on the scholarship committee and has taught botanical Latin classes for NHS and several other horticultural groups since 2006. For the past three years he has been a staff writer for “The Buzz,” the quarterly magazine of the Bellevue Botanical Garden Society. When he’s not up to his knees in compost, Daniel enjoys reading Spanish literature, whipping up vegan delicacies and visiting the world’s most alluring botanical gardens.

These Are a Few of Our Favorite Plants

Friday, Feb 11 at 4:30 pm / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

Nicholas Staddon

Nicholas Staddon—Horticultural consultant and spokesperson/plantsman with Everde Growers and ‘Garden Savvy’ YouTube host

Unabashed plant geek Nicholas Staddon has been working with plant breeders, hybridizers and professional plant explorer for over 25 years, scouring the globe for new creations and discoveries in the plant world. Born in England, he received credentials in Agricultural Science from Otley Agricultural College. When he first arrived in the U.S. he managed garden centers in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. He then went on to work for Monrovia Growers for 27 years, 15 of which as leader of the New Plant program. Nicholas resides in California and is working with Everde Growers as their Spokesperson and Plantsman supporting their marketing and new plant introduction programs. He is a sought-after speaker and guest for gardening television and radio shows across the U.S. He works closely with professional garden writers, providing information on plants and sharing his views on garden trends and more. Nicholas has created a series of informative ‘Garden Savvy’ videos available on YouTube, and recently partnered with Kellogg Garden Products for a video series on soil and soil amendments for the garden. Nicholas is proud to be professionally affiliated with the RHS, California Plant Alliance and AmericanHort. He is on the Board of Advisors of The Mediterranean Garden Society of Southern California, and Mount San Antonio College Agriculture Sciences program, Climate Ready Landscape Plants, a USDA SCMP project, and Cal-HIP, California Horticultural Invasives Prevention.

https://www.facebook.com/nicholas.staddon

Nick’s Pick’s #1: Garden to Table Freshness from Fruit, Veggies and Seeds

Eating wholesome fresh fruit is not just “trendy” anymore; it’s a cultural shift. Anyone can grow veggies and fruit in the garden, and even containers are great on the patio or balcony. Join horticulturist Nicholas Staddon for his top discoveries from the garden show Plant Market. Indulge yourself in this main course of terrific edibles. Nicholas will also cover partner plants to go with edibles. Finding just what you want is a breeze, as Nicholas provides booth numbers and company names for you to follow up on your favorite choices.

Wednesday, Feb 9 at 10:00 am / DIY Stage

Nick’s Pick’s #2: A Mixed Bag of Bulbs, Perennials and Tubers

Gardeners’ passion for seasonal perennials, bulbs, tubers and more shows no sign of letting up. Join horticulturist Nicholas Staddon as he cultivates his way through some of his dazzling finds from the garden show Plant Market. He will also show you a few other companion plants to go with his selections, and provide booth numbers and company names so you can easily find your favorite choices. Nicholas has done the leg work, so you don’t have to!

Thursday, Feb 10 at 10:00 am / DIY Stage

Nick’ Pick’s #3: Trees, Shrubs and Surprises for the Long Haul

Many of the plants used in the luscious display gardens at the Festival can be purchased from nurseries in the Plant Market. Nicholas has visited with nurserymen and women to find the hidden gems that are for sale. He will introduce his top picks from the conifer, tree and shrub categories available at the show. These plants tend to be longer lived in our gardens, so the selection process is all the more important. Nicholas has done the homework, so you don’t have to!

Friday, Feb 11 at 10:00 am / DIY Stage

Richie Steffen

Richie Steffen—Executive Director, Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden and co-author, Plant Lover’s Guide to Ferns

To say Richie Steffen is enthusiastic about or obsessed with plants would definitely be an understatement! He turned a budding passion as a youngster into a career that took him onto the Pacific Northwest horticultural stage. Richie is the Executive Director for the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden where he oversees the Garden, its rare plant collections, and the Miller Garden’s primary educational program Great Plant Picks. GPP is committed to building a comprehensive palette of outstanding plants and sharing information about reliable plants for maritime Pacific Northwest gardens. A noted author, photographer and lecturer, Richie’s work is regularly featured in Fine Gardening magazine and he is the co-author, with Sue Olsen, of The Plant Lover's Guide to Ferns (Timber Press, 2015). Richie’s photography has been featured in many publications including several books and national magazines. Active in the horticultural community, he is currently president of the Northwest Horticultural Society and past president of the Hardy Fern Foundation. His entertaining lectures and beautiful images have been shared with many gardeners and will have you too perusing nurseries in search of plants from around the world. Visit the Great Plant Picks booth in the North Hall and pick up a gorgeous free poster. www.greatplantpicks.org

Great Plant Picks: Plants for Small Spaces

Is your garden space challenged? Do you want that lush full look of a huge garden, but don’t know which plants might soon overwhelm your petite space? Are you looking for the perfect plants that will fit into the smaller urban garden? Discover the best and most reliable plants for our climate that add color, texture and beauty to your patio, pots and petite garden spaces. Being small never looked so good with these great, proven plants that have received the Seal of Approval by the Great Plant Picks experts!

Friday, Feb 11 at 5:00 pm / Hood Room / Book signing to follow

Great Plant Picks: Plants for a Better Planet

Looking for tough plants or great native plants for the garden? Or maybe something to attract pollinators? Learn about top performing native, drought tolerant and pollinator attracting plant choices that thrive in our Pacific Northwest climate. Gardening can be an act of climate activism when you incorporate plants that live in harmony with your climate and water availability and provide beneficial food and water for wildlife and pollinators. These are plants that are both beautiful and beneficial to the planet.

Saturday at 9:30 am / Hood Room / Book signing to follow

Allen Taylor

Allen Taylor—Board Certified Master Arborist, founder and lead arborist, Conservation Tree Care

Allen Taylor spends his life up high in the trees. He has ten years full-time experience in the field of Arboriculture. He holds a Tree Risk Assessment Qualification and is a Board Certified Master Arborist from the International Society of Arboriculture, as well as being a Registered Consulting Arborist from the American Society of Consulting Arborists. He is the founder and lead arborist for Conservation Tree Care in Seattle, and holds a BS in Forestry from the University of Vermont. Allen has extensive experience working with residential and commercial clients to manage all aspects of tree care. These include tree risk and health assessment, planting site selection, tree species and planting stock selection as well as pruning and other care for trees of all ages and sizes. He has worked extensively to remedy hazardous trees or tree parts through pruning or removal. Stop by the Conservation Tree Care booth, #2163, at this year’s show. www.conservationtreecare.com

Trees and a Warming Climate: Strategies for Management and Adaptation

The science behind and effects of climate change are undeniable. The value and benefits of trees in the face of climate change is also undeniable. Allen will discuss strategies for managing existing trees, everything from soil improvements to pruning and pathogen management. He will also review strategies for adapting to a warmer climate such as assisted migration (planting trees from warmer regions). You will leave with a better understanding of the impact climate change will have on their trees and gardens as well as better strategies for adapting to it.

Friday, Feb 11 at 6:30 pm / Hood Room

Deborah Trickett

Deborah Trickett

Deborah Trickett—Award-winning container designer and owner, The Captured Garden

Award-winning container garden designer Deborah Trickett has worked in the gardening industry for over 30 years, starting with her first job in a greenhouse at age 13 until the present as the owner of The Captured Garden. Deborah works with clients throughout New England who want their homes to be beautiful, not typical. By combining unusual plant material and creative design ideas she creates gardens and containers that are truly one of a kind. Deborah Trickett is a Massachusetts Certified Horticulturist, and a Massachusetts Certified Landscape Professional. Deborah is a frequent lecturer on many garden topics, speaking at the New England Spring Flower Show, The Connecticut Flower Show, the Newport Flower Show, and the Philadelphia Flower Show. She has also shared her passion for perennials at the Perennial Plant Association Annual Symposium. She was a featured speaker at the Grand Garden Show on Mackinac Island. She also teaches classes and workshops at the Arnold Arboretum in Boston. Deborah’s work has been featured in The Boston Globe, The American Gardener, Garden Gate and New England Home magazines as well as on the TV show New England Dream Home. www.thecapturedgarden.com.

Jaw-Dropping, Traffic-Stopping, “Get-Your-Neighbors-Talking” Containers
Have you always wanted to create lush container gardens that would be the envy of the neighborhood, but didn’t know where to start? Join Deborah as she shows you how to take your container gardens from “blah” to “aaah”. She’ll start with the basics, including appropriate containers, soil mixes, and plant choices for different site conditions, then proceed to new and unusual plant material and uncommon, even “green”, container choices. Move beyond the expected and create truly jaw-dropping containers!
Saturday, Feb 12 at 5:00 pm / Hood Room

Container Wars
Once again we’ve lined up leading garden designers and writers to “battle it out” in our highly acclaimed “Container Wars.” Containers can go virtually anywhere—patios, decks and balconies or even in the garden! Drawing from identical plant materials, Deborah Trickett and Robin Haglund will each create three gorgeous containers—all in under an hour! Working against the clock, and with fun “challenges” thrown at them by Master of Ceremonies Marianne Binetti, see how they pull together plants and share their tips for designing luscious container gardens. Learning about plants has never been so fun!
Sunday, Feb 13 at 11:30 am / Main Stage in North Hall

GARDEN 101: Bold, Beautiful and Bountiful Containers
Look Ma! No Flowers: Fabulous Foliage Containers
Container gardens are perfect for the space-challenged gardener or anyone who wants a bold expression in the garden. Learn from the pros to avoid making expensive mistakes and get great results. Cindy Funes will cover how to select containers, essential tools, soil basics, plant selection, design principles and color theory, showing you the best in Northwest container design. Next, Deborah Trickett will convince you that flowers aren’t needed for lush, colorful, easy-care foliage containers that pack a punch and show off your personal style. From the basics of foliage color, texture and contrast to design ideas to great plant selections, you’ll be saying “Look Ma, No Flowers!” this summer. Finally, Sue Goetz shows you how potted herbs can create a feast of flavorings to place near outdoor kitchens, medicinal herbs for mini healing gardens, tea herbs in a sanctuary space, or aromatherapy with fragrant plants near outdoor seating areas.
Sunday, Feb 13 at 2:00 pm / Rainier Room

Mark Turner

Mark Turner

Mark Turner—Professional photographer, author, Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest and owner, Turner Photographics

Mark Turner is the owner of Turner Photographics, LLC and has been a professional photographer since 1993, specializing in gardens and native plants for books, magazines, and commercial clients. He also creates lifestyle portraits for northwest families. He is the photographer and co-author of Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest (Timber Press, 2006), Trees and Shrubs of the Pacific Northwest (with co-author Ellen Kuhlmann, Timber Press, 2014), and Bellingham Impressions (Far Country Press, 2007. His work has been published in Sunset, Garden Design, Birds & Blooms, American Gardener, Horticulture, This Old House, Organic Gardening and other magazines and in books from Timber Press, Sunset Books, Cool Springs Press, Rodale, Meredith, and Lone Pine publishers. He is past president of the Koma Kulshan chapter of the Washington Native Plant Society, a member of Association of Garden Communicators, and Professional Photographers of America. He has an M.A. in Telecommunications from Kent State University and a B.S. in Audio-visual Communications from Rochester Institute of Technology. Mark has taught photography classes at Siskiyou Field Institute, North Cascades Institute, Whatcom Community College, and other northwest locations.

www.turnerphotographics.com

Incorporating Native Plants in Your Garden

Do you have to go whole hog and ditch your old garden favorites when you “go native?” Not necessarily. Tuck native perennials and shrubs into your existing garden and begin experiencing the benefits of gardening with native plants without wiping the slate clean first. Learn how to choose appropriate native (and near-native) plants for your environment. See examples of native plants incorporated into an existing garden and new garden areas planted mostly with natives.

Sunday, Feb 13 at 12:30 pm / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

Bill Thorness

Bill Thorness

Bill Thorness—Author, Cool Season Gardener and Edible Heirlooms

Bill Thorness is a writer, editor and gardener who’s been working and gardening in Seattle since the mid-1980s. He is the author of two gardening books: Cool Season Gardener: Extend the Harvest, Plan Ahead, and Grow Vegetables Year Round (2013) and Edible Heirlooms: Heritage Vegetables for the Maritime Garden (2009), both from Skipstone Press. He is also the creator of “Extend the Harvest,” a streaming class based on his books for Craftsy.com. Bill writes for many regional publications, including The Seattle Times. He has also written two bicycling guidebooks: Biking Puget Sound, now in its 2nd edition, and Cycling the Pacific Coast, both from Mountaineers Books. Bill is a King County Master Gardener and active in many regional garden organizations. He is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, Northwest Editors Guild and Pacific Northwest Writers Association. He is a frequent speaker on edibles at regional nurseries, garden clubs and garden shows. www.billthorness.com

GARDEN 101: Grow Your Edible Gardening Skills
Winter Edibles: Tap Into the Power of Season Extension
It seems everyone started edible gardening in 2020, for health, safety and the delicious rewards! Here are three great seminars by the pros that will help you squeeze even more fruit in your garden, discover ways to beat those pesky pests, and extend your garden season with tasty winter edibles. Christy Wilhelmi shares techniques and strategies to grow fruit, even if you only have a balcony, patio, or small garden to work with. Explore Backyard Orchard Culture methods, container gardening tips, pruning guidelines, pest management and soil prep for an abundant, healthy garden. Next Susan Mulvihill covers 10 simple steps you can take in your garden to keep your plants healthy and better able to withstand pest attacks, how to identify bugs before taking any action, and increase your knowledge of the most damaging pests and simple organic methods that effectively control them. Finally, Bill Thorness shows you how you can grow vegetables year round! Learn how to build or find the best winter-growing devices, when to use them and what to grow under them. Tap into season extension and discover the many ways you can keep harvesting all year.
Friday, Feb 11 at 2:30 pm / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

James Ullrich

James Ullrich

James Ullrich—Owner, Knox Cellars Mason Bees
James Ullrich is the owner of Knox Cellars Mason Bees in Bremerton, WA, and is past president of the Kitsap Audubon Society. He has served on the Grays Harbor Shorebord Festival for the past 20 years and has also served on the Kitsap Audubon board of directors for the past 10 years, and has been a guest on Ciscoe Morris, Ed Hume and Scott Conner’s shows. He received the “Friend to the Environment” and “Franchisee of the Year” from Wild Birds Unlimited; the “Scouting Lifetime Achievement Award” and “Silver Beaver Award” from the Boy Scouts of America; the Kingfisher Award from the Kitsap Audubon Society and the Tahoma Audubon Society Distinguished Service Award. He has written many articles on birds and bees for the West Sound Home & Garden magazine. James is a retired U.S. Navy Commander and holds an MBA from the University of Puget Sound. Visit Knox Cellars Mason Bees, booth #417 in the South Hall, at this year’s show.

Building an Orchard Mason Bee Pollinating Colony in your Backyard
This demonstration covers developing of a backyard sanctuary for our invaluable native pollinators—Orchard Mason bees. Jim will cover all of the Mason bee's needs, including proper housing, housing location, and plants to assist in the success of bringing Mason bees into one’s yard. He’ll also review the life cycle of the Mason bee, and the maintenance requirements of your colony during the pollination process, and how to harvest, clean the cocoons and store them
Wednesday, Feb 9 at 11:45 am / DIY Stage

Phillip Waite

Phillip Waite

Phillip Waite—Former University Educator in Landscape Architecture
Phillip Waite is a recently retired university professor. With degrees in both landscape architecture and architecture, he has spent the last 32 years working at the University of Idaho, Washington State University, and Utah State University where he specialized in low-water use planting design, landscape architectural construction materials & methods, and rainwater harvesting techniques. His publications include books and journal articles on campus planning, color in planting design, sustainability in garden design, and firewise landscapes. He now consults as a residential designer, designing both homes and their gardens. www.maplestreetgardendesign.com

Hospitality Begins at the Street: The Power of a Welcoming Entry Design
The hospitality we extend to our friends and guests starts not at the front door of our homes, but at the street. The entire arrival sequence should be carefully designed and orchestrated to create a sense of welcome. Whether designing a new landscape or renovating an existing one, this seminar will equip the homeowner/designer with principles based in psychology and design to create an experience of gracious welcome.
Wednesday, Feb 9 at 6:30 pm / Hood Room

Laura Watson

Laura Watson

Laura Watson—Master Gardener, Master Pruner and ‘Clemaniac’
Laura Watson enjoys sharing her ever-increasing knowledge of plants, particularly clematis, other vines, and trees. She is not only a clemaniac, but she is also a plantaholic! She has grown vines, especially clematis, for many years to grace the vertical spaces in two gardens, one in Boston and the other in Seattle. Laura is a member of several clematis societies and regularly attends International Clematis Society Conferences in Europe and the US. Her articles have been published in the Journal of the International Clematis Society and locally in the PlantAmnesty Newsletter. Laura writes an informative blog entitled Clematis in Seattle (http://www.clematisinseattle.com). She is also a certified PlantAmnesty Master Pruner and a King County Master and is a member of the Council for the International Clematis Society.

Sizzling Blooms: Heat-Tolerant Clematis of Summer
Let Laura show you the amazing beauty and variety of the clematis of summer! Using great photos and a friendly speaking style, will discuss the beautiful and varied clematis of high summer, including the Profuse Clematis (also known as viticellas), the Trumpets and Urns (texensis, viorna, and crispa hybrids), the Late Large-Flowered Clematis, and Non-Climbing Clematis. Get details about the care of each type of clematis, information about simplified pruning, and recommendations for easy clematis to try.
Sunday, Feb 13 at 12:00 pm / Hood Room

Christy Wilhelmi

Christy Wilhelmi

Christy Wilhelmi—Award-winning blogger, Gardenerd and author, Gardening for Geeks and Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden

Christy Wilhelmi is founder of Gardenerd, the ultimate resource for garden nerds, where she publishes newsletters, her award-winning blog (GardenComm Silver Award, 2014), top-ranked podcasts, and YouTube videos. She also specializes in small-space, organic vegetable garden design, consulting, and classes. Between 70-80 percent of her family's produce comes from her garden of less than 300 square feet. Christy has been featured as a garden expert on the Hallmark Home & Family Show, ABC News: Nightline, and Food for Thought with Claire Thomas. She is author of Gardening for Geeks (Fox Chapel Publishing, 2020), 400+ Tips for Organic Gardening Success (Amazon Digital, 2017), Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden (Cool Springs Press, 2021), and her upcoming novel, Garden Variety, will be released by William Morrow/Harper Collins in April 2022. www.gardenerd.com

GARDEN 101: Grow Your Edible Gardening Skills

Size Doesn’t Matter: Growing Fruit in Small Spaces

It seems everyone started edible gardening in 2020, for health, safety and the delicious rewards! Here are three great seminars by the pros that will help you squeeze even more fruit in your garden, discover ways to beat those pesky pests, and extend your garden season with tasty winter edibles. Christy Wilhelmi shares techniques and strategies to grow fruit, even if you only have a balcony, patio, or small garden to work with. Explore Backyard Orchard Culture methods, container gardening tips, pruning guidelines, pest management and soil prep for an abundant, healthy garden. Next Susan Mulvihill covers 10 simple steps you can take in your garden to keep your plants healthy and better able to withstand pest attacks, how to identify bugs before taking any action, and increase your knowledge of the most damaging pests and simple organic methods that effectively control them. Finally, Bill Thorness shows you how you can grow vegetables year round! Learn how to build or find the best winter-growing devices, when to use them and what to grow under them. Tap into season extension and discover the many ways you can keep harvesting all year.

Friday, Feb 11 at 2:30 pm / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

Biointensive Vegetable Gardening in Small Spaces

Get the most out of your vegetable garden this season! Learn how biointensive methods are used to grow an abundance of produce in tight quarters. Discover how to grow your most productive, high-yielding vegetable garden yet, while doing less work and using less water. Combine Biodynamic, French Intensive, Grow BioIntensive, and Square Foot Gardening methods to fill your harvest basket like never before. You’ll reap a bounty of produce no matter how small your garden is.

Saturday, Feb 12 at 11:00 am / Hood Room / Book signing to follow

Rachael Witt

Rachael Witt

Rachael Witt—Herbalist and Founder of Wildness Within

Rachael is a community herbalist, gardener, and ancestral skills teacher. She is the founder of Wildness Within; an herbal business that offers plant-based classes and workshops, hand-made products and herbal consultations. She has a degree in Ecology and Evolution Biology with an emphasis in Plant Ecology. Prior to settling in the PNW she studied ethnobotany, horticulture and plant sciences in Ghana, Puerto Rico, Colombia and various places throughout the U.S. Rachael has accumulated her botanical experiences abroad into a niche practice of teaching people how to connect with place and their well-being through working with wild and cultivated plants. Rachael is a contributing author in Llewellyn’s 2021 and 2022 Herbal Almanac. www.wildnesswithinliving.com

Free and Delicious: Making Use of Common Backyard Weeds

Ralph Waldo Emerson said “a weed is just a plant whose virtues remain undiscovered.” Did you know that many of our weeds are both edible and medicinal? Learn about the nutritional benefits of weeds and how to integrate these wild plants into your diet and daily life. Rachael will cover botanical identification, seasonal tending, edibility, medicinal benefits, possible toxicity, and how to use underappreciated plants within your home. You’ll also discover simple recipes and remedies to transform these pesky plants into healthy plant allies.

Sunday, Feb 13 at 3:15 pm / DIY Stage

Ellen Zachos

Ellen Zachos

Ellen Zachos—Award-winning co-host, Plantrama Podcast, and author, The Forager’s Pantry, Backyard Foraging and The Wildcrafted Cocktail

Ellen Zachos is a Harvard graduate and the author of eight books including The Forager’s Pantry (Gibbs Smith, 2021), The Wildcrafted Cocktail (Storey, 2017), BackyardForaging: 65 Familiar Plants You Didn’t Know You Could Eat (Storey, 2013) and Growing Healthy Houseplants (Story, 2014). She is also the author of the Backyard Forager calendar and writes a regular column for Edible New Mexico magazine. A former Broadway performer, Ellen was named a Great American Gardener by the Epcot Flower and Garden Festival. She shares recipes and foraging tips on her website, backyardforager.com. Ellen also offers several online foraging courses at backyard-forager.thinkific.com and teaches wild cooking classes across the United States. A long-time instructor at the New York Botanical Garden, Ellen now lives in Santa Fe, NM. She is the co-host of the award-winning Plantrama Podcast, and has also received awards from GardenComm International for her magazine writing and calendar. www.thebackyardforager.com

Container Wars
Once again we’ve lined up leading garden designers and writers to “battle it out” in our highly acclaimed “Container Wars.” Containers can go virtually anywhere—patios, decks and balconies or even in the garden! Drawing from identical plant materials, Ellen Zachos and C.L. Fornari will each create three gorgeous containers—all in under an hour! Working against the clock, and with fun “challenges” thrown at them by Master of Ceremonies Marianne Binetti, see how they pull together plants and share their tips for designing luscious container gardens. Learning about plants has never been so fun!
Thursday, Feb 20 at 11:30 am / Main Stage in North Hall

A Garden Party: A Plantrama Celebration
Plants and gardens sustained us through the pandemic, and it’s time to celebrate that. Hear the Plantrama podcast co-hosts as they present ideas for garden celebrations. Learn how to dress up your yard and gardens for afternoon tea, barbeques, evening cocktails or family reunions. Hear how to gather for group wildlife walks, flower-crafting creative events, or a garden celebration around the firepit. Inspirations you can use with plants you can grow, plus door-prizes!
Thursday, Feb 10 at 3:30 pm / Hood Room / Book signing to follow

No Space? No Problem! Container Gardens for Style and Pizzaz
If you have a small yard, terrace, patio, or deck, a few well-planned containers can deliver a lot of pizzazz. (Not to mention some tasty herbs and vegetables!) This seminar offers unusual container set-ups: a container water garden, grow-bags, natural containers (wood and stone), flea market funk, and containerized trees. You’ll learn professional tricks and tips for long lasting container plantings and images illustrate step-by-step planting instructions for each scenario. There will also be a list of plants that thrive in containers (because not all do!) and products that make container gardening a breeze.
Friday, Feb 11 at 11:30 am / Rainier Room / Book signing to follow

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