Northwest Flower and Garden Show in Seattle: favourite scenes
These are not the best photos, all being pre-digital and with a disposable camera (which was the easiest way to take photos of the garden show without being weighed down). But they do help me remember the designs that spoke to me the strongest during these years.
I had missed all but a couple of hours of the show in ’91 because I was preoccupied with the Federal Building protest, in ’92 because I was ill from a miscarriage that week, had missed ’93 and ’94 because of the Sou’wester job. I think we had gone in ’95 and stayed at Bryan’s rented house in West Seattle.
I usually attended 18 seminars, and took notes through every one. Some day I hope to go through all my notebooks and type up the best of what I learned. I hope a lot of it sunk in! Hrm, typing my notes into this blog would be a great project for next winter.
1996
In February 1996, Bryan drove to the beach, picked me up and drove me to Seattle during a time of much flooding in Pacific County, Grays Harbor, and the Chehalis area. Just after we got through Chehalis the freeway went underwater and Robert, who did not enjoy attending seminars, was unable to drive up for three days. This began a tradition of me going to the garden show by myself.
1997

This moss-scape made me realize I should qui removing the moss from the huge rock by our pond and just let it be green!
1998
Bryan had gotten married, so I took the train from Kelso and stayed with my old friend Carol in Ballard, an arrangement which turned into a fun yearly event for the next seven years.
1999
I went to the garden show in 1999 and stayed at Carol’s, but did not take photos for this year or the next couple of years because the show for awhile provided video tours of the display gardens.