THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16
Our Seminar Schedule is sorted by date, then by room and time. Want to find specific topics? Use our Seminars by Category pages to find the seminars just right for you.
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Book Signing Pro TipsWe post Speakers' Pro Tips every evening by 9 pm after the show closes for the day. If you would like to access the SPEAKER PRO TIPS just click on the pink paper icon on the seminar schedule to download and print their Pro Tips, or go to the dropdown menu for a listing of all Speaker Pro Tips. We keep the schedule up for months after the show, so you can access all the Pro Tips as you get back out into the garden.
If you do not see paper symbol, it means that the Speaker didn’t provide a Pro Tips for that seminar.
No ticket refunds in the event of Speaker cancellations.
Click here for the full Book Signing schedule.
All seminars at the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival are FREE with your ticket!
Rainier Room
10:00 AM |
EDGE = ENERGY: Activating Boundaries in the Garden for Excitement, Engagement and Clarity
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11:30 AM |
Finding Common Ground: Good Communication is Like Mycorrhizal Fungi Arit Anderson - 2023 Show Judge, BBC ‘Gardeners World’ presenter and co-founder, Sustainable Landscape Foundation
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1:00 PM |
What Your Food Ate: The Roots to Human Health Begin in the Soil Anne Biklé - Biologist, science writer and co-author, What Your Food Ate and The Hidden Half of Nature David R Montgomery, PhD - Award-winning University of Washington professor and co-author, What Your Food Ate and The Hidden Half of Nature |
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2:30 PM (90 min) |
GARDEN 101: NOT YOUR GRANNY’S PLANTS Quintessential Signs of Spring: Valuable, Versatile Primulas Ginger Hudson - Garden designer and Director, Jensen-Olson Arboretum, Juneau, AK |
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Crazy for Coleus: Looking at Coleus in a Whole New Light Deborah Trickett - Award-winning container designer and owner, The Captured Garden
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Perennial Favorites: Hardy Fuchsias in the Garden R Theo Margelony - Fuchsia expert and blogger The Fuchsietum|A Garden in Portland
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4:30 PM |
Demystifying Botanical Latin Ross Bayton, PhD - 2023 Show Judge, Director, Heronswood Gardens and author, The Gardener’s Botanical
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6:00 PM |
Circles, Arcs and Tangents: The Role of Form and Line in Garden Design C. Colston Burrell - Garden designer, photographer, lecturer and award-winning author, Hellebores: A Comprehensive Guide
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Hood Room
9:30 AM |
Scaling Up: Climbers to Try Eric Hsu - Chanticleer plant information coordinator, horticulturist and blogger of Plinth et al
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10:45 AM |
Edible Growing for Person, Plate and Planet Kim Stoddart - U.K. garden journalist and co-author, The Climate Change Garden Sally Morgan - U.K. co-author, The Climate Change Garden and author, The Healthy Vegetable Garden |
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12:00 PM |
Squeezing It All In: Small Space Garden Design for Your Urban Garden Kathy Jentz - Award-winning author, Groundcover Revolution, co-author, The Urban Garden and editor/publisher, Washington Gardener
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1:15 PM |
Ground Covers: Reduce Maintenance, Control Erosion, Improve the Environment, and Beautify the Landscape Gary Lewis - Award-winning owner, Phoenix Perennials and author, The Complete Book of Ground Covers
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2:45 PM |
Go Bold: Tropical Accents for Inspiring Containers Marianne Willburn - Award-winning blogger, GardenRant.com, author, Tropical Plants and How to Love Them and Big Dreams, Small Garden
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4:00 PM |
Got Pests? Critters in the Edible Garden Susan Mulvihill - Author, The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook and Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook, and garden columnist for Spokesman Review
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5:15 PM |
A Memorable Garden Is Built from a Series of Vignettes Loree Bohl - Author of Fearless Gardening and blogger, thedangergarden.com
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6:30 PM |
Garden Design Makeovers for a Changing Climate Sue Goetz CPH, EcoPro - Owner, Creative Gardener and author, Complete Container Herb Gardening and A Taste for Herbs
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DIY Stage
10:00 AM |
Richie's Picks #2: A Mixed Bag of Perennials, Bulbs and Tubers Richie Steffen - Executive Director, Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden and co-author, Plant Lover’s Guide to Ferns
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11:45 AM |
Connect with Color Lorene Edwards Forkner - Author, Color In and Out of the Garden and gardening contributor for The Seattle Times
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1:30 PM |
Rooting Out Problems Before You Plant Linda Chalker-Scott, PhD - WSU Horticulture Professor and author, How Plants Work and The Informed Gardener
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3:15 PM |
Shake it up! Herbal Happy Hour Garden Mixology Robin Haglund - Educator and founder and president of Garden Mentors® and Garden Mentors Academy
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