North America's third largest spring flower show features 8 acres of fragrance, color, blossoms, and gardening inspiration. Each year, nearly 30 nurseries, landscape designers, and horticultural groups design and build dazzling display gardens and major exhibits. In the Washington State Convention Centre in downtown Seattle, visitors enjoy five days of gardens, free seminars and hands-on demonstrations, nearly 300 commercial exhibits, and displays from every imaginable plant society and horticultural organization.
Some other highlights include:
Shopping: More than 300 vendors from around the world, sell cut and potted flowers, plants, floral-inspired furniture from the romantic to the practical, botanical artwork, garden-related crafts and tools and so much more.
Container Garden Exhibition - presents a broad range of innovative ideas for container gardens.
Florist Competition - Some of the best local florists vie for top honors with artful floral displays.
Funky Junk - The horticulturists of tomorrow will strut their stuff in this competition that features new uses for throwaway stuff. High school students from throughout the Northwest will prove that one person's junk is another person's artistic planter!
Orchid Display - Located in a beautiful tree-lined promenade in the Plant Market, the Orchid Display is the Northwest's largest orchid show with more than 20,000 exotic orchids and tropical plants on display and for sale.
Ikebana - The Seattle Chapter of Ikebana International offers an educational and inspirational display of Ikebana, the centuries-old Japanese art of flower arrangement. The art of Ikebana, which explores concepts of balance and harmony, will be explored in graceful combinations of flowers and containers.
Vignettes - High school students from across the state, the King County Dept. of Natural Resources & Parks Agriculture Program, ReStore and more will explore a variety of garden themes and styles on a smaller scale.