Northwest Flower and Garden Show

I'm busy getting packed up to leave on Wednesday.  Yes, it will take me that long but I won't get into the whys or wherefores.

Yesterday's adventure was a trip to the Northwest Flower and Garden Show in Seattle.  It's an annual event and probably one of the best in the country.  There is a competition between various landscape and garden businesses and gold, silver and bronze medals are awarded for the best of the best displays.

I took dozens of photos but really had a hard time photographing the major exhibits.  First of all, there were thousands of people milling everywhere so it was tricky getting a vantage point without people right in front of whatever it was I wanted to capture.  So bear with me on this...

 

Ferry view of Seattle from Winslow Harbor

 

Wall art in Seattle's Pioneer Square District

 Juxtaposition of Old and New Buildings in Pioneer Square 

The huge wrought iron pergola in Pioneer Square.

Some of the more interesting exhibits weren't the biggest.  I doubt many people, for example, would have a carousel horse in their garden but you never do know. 

 

This exhibit is charming.  I love the checkerboard pattern in the ground cover.

I have seen planted bathtubs planted in gardens...some of them terrific and some not so much.  This one is quite pretty.  The tiled pattern with pebbles is unique.

 

The little vignette (2 shots) was prettier in person but I'm including it, anyway.  That's the same chair...just different angles.

   

This was a Gold Medal winner, I believe.  Stonehenge inspired, obviously.  This shot doesn't even come close to capturing the entire display.

 

These next two displays take recycling to a whole new level!  The chair idea I have seen before but the truck I have to admit is a little off-the-wall.  Very clever but I'm not sure where you'd put it.  Those are strawberry plants on the sides.

  

I'd love to have a cold frame or two or three like this...wonder what it would take to talk Jack into making a few of them.  They make sense for those of us living in the upper midwest.  Plus I like them.  Goes to show that cold frames can be decorative as well as functional.

You'll probably have to enlarge this photo by clicking on it in order to really see the beauty of this gate.  It was just amazing.  The "tree trunk" is the post and the gate hinges to it at the top and the bottom. 

That's it, folks.  I'm off to pack...I swear that each time we travel I vow to pack less.  And I do.  But I still have waaaay too much.  You'd think I'd learn.