Every year the Northwest Flower & Garden Show brings three luminaries of the gardening world to serve as the Show Judges and Speakers. These judges award the Medal Awards to each show garden and select the coveted Founder’s Cup Award (Best in Show).
The Northwest Flower & Garden Show proudly announces our 2012 Show Judges:
Stephen Orr – Editorial Director for Gardening, Martha Stewart Living
Stephen Orr is Editorial Director for Gardening at Martha Stewart Living. Prior to that he was the Garden Editor at Domino and House & Garden magazines. His first book, Tomorrow’s Garden: Design and Inspiration for a New Age of Sustainable Gardening, was published by Rodale in February, 2011. He blogs at What Were the Skies Like. He has written extensively for The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and other publications, and appeared regularly as a gardening expert on CBS’s ‘Early Show’ and NBC’s ‘Today Show’. In 2008, he edited the American version of the garden cookbook In Season by British author Sarah Raven for Rizzoli.
Stephen’s seminars are:
Designing Tomorrow’s Gardens Today
Garden Sustainably Without Sacrificing Beauty
Wed, Feb 8 at 10 am / Rainier Room
Responsible Gardening
Reimagining the Definition of a Modern Garden
Thurs, Feb 10 at 2:30 pm / Rainier Room
Rosalind Creasy – Author, Edible Landscaping
Ros Creasy has been considered the leading authority on edible landscaping since her groundbreaking book, The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping (Sierra Club Books, 1982). It has become a contemporary classic, and was named one of the 75 Great American Garden Books by the American Horticultural Society. An all-new edition was published in November 2010 and is now in its third printing. In addition to all her books, Ros is a designer of landscapes that include edible, native and drought tolerant plants. She is a winner of the Garden Writers of America’s Award for Excellence and is also the author of the 1999 – 2000 Edible Gardening Series from Periplus Editions, which include The Edible Herb Garden, TheEdible Flower Garden, The Edible Rainbow Garden, The Edible Heirloom Gardens as well as the best-selling Rosalind Creasy’s Recipes from the Garden (Tuttle Company, 2008).
Rosalind’s seminars are:
Edible Landscaping: The New American Garden
Grow Your Own Bountiful & Beautiful Garden
Wed, Feb 8 at 11:30 am / Rainier Room
The Heirloom Garden
Time-tested Vegetables & Flowers for Home Gardens
Thurs, Feb 9 at 11:30 am / Rainier Room
Steve Aitken – Editor, Fine Gardening magazine
Steve Aitken is editor of Fine Gardening, a magazine devoted to making its readers better gardeners. He spends much of his time talking with and visiting horticulturists and avid gardeners around the country. The knowledge he gains from these activities not only helps the magazine, but also provides solutions to the everyday challenges he faces in his own garden. He has written articles for Fine Gardening on topics ranging from drip irrigation to building twig structures. A Master Gardener, Steve is currently carving out beds and borders around his home in Cheshire, Connecticut, where he lives with his wife and daughter.
Steve’s seminars are:
Why Doesn’t My Garden Look Like That?
10 Questions to Ask About Your Garden’s Design
Wed, Feb 8 at 1 pm / Rainier Room
The Secrets to Combining Plants
Discover Strategies of Design to Transform Your Garden
Thurs, Feb 9 at 1 pm / Rainier Room
