Chicago Flower And Garden Show This Week

I’ll be presenting “These are a Few of Our Favorite Things” at the Chicago Flower and Garden Show on Thursday at 11:30. I wasn’t planning to speak this year, but they asked me to fill in for a speaker who cancelled. There was no time to prepare a new presentation, so I opted to “rebloom” . . . → Read More: Chicago Flower And Garden Show This Week

‘Favorite Things’ Presentation at the Chicago Flower and Garden Show

Join me at the Chicago Flower and Garden Show for ‘These are a Few of Our Favorite Things’. I’ll be presenting on Friday, March 24th, at 11 AM.

Managing the seminars on-site at past shows has given me a unique opportunity to attend MANY seminars. It is just one of the ways I have been . . . → Read More: ‘Favorite Things’ Presentation at the Chicago Flower and Garden Show

Chicago Flower and Garden Show Discount Tickets

There. I have your attention. We all like saving money and $4.00 off the admission price for the Chicago Flower and Garden Show is attention worthy.

After all, the fragrance of 1000 hyacinths will be intoxicating. It has been an easy Chicago winter, but winter non-the-less. I am so ready for the show at . . . → Read More: Chicago Flower and Garden Show Discount Tickets

13 Tips Inspired by the Chicago Flower & Garden Show

Did you miss the Chicago Flower & Garden Show? You did? I’m sorry. I can help you with your loss by providing some of my favorite take-aways from the show. I can’t recreate the fragrance of hyacinths or beauty of a rose garden, but there is always more to learn about gardening. Let’s go there.

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Chicago Flower & Garden Show (Almost) In Bloom

If you’ve been a bit doubtful about those TV shows that do garden makeovers in a few days , know that it can be done. Yes, an Irish inspired garden with customized softscapes, hardscapes and water features. Yes, a Monarch Sanctuary. Yes, a Garden of Weeping Wonder with spruce, fir, beech, pine, ginkgo and Alaskan . . . → Read More: Chicago Flower & Garden Show (Almost) In Bloom

Anticipation – Chicago Flower & Garden Show

Mike and I are different. No, not just the obvious differences. Take the cherries below for example.

Well, you can’t actually take them because we had them with our pancakes yesterday morning. Let’s use ‘take’ a little less literally. We bring home a 10 pound bucket of frozen cherries from Door County every autumn. . . . → Read More: Anticipation – Chicago Flower & Garden Show

Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – Top 10 Takeaways From The Chicago Flower & Garden Show

Session after session after session after session. As the On-Site Seminar Manager for the Chicago Flower & Garden show, you’ve got to figure I have some takeaways to share. No, not leftover plants from the displays (darn). For this month’s Favorites on the Fifth, I’ll share my list of favorite informational takeaways from the show.

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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – The Chicago Flower & Garden Show, Then and Now

Poor me. I’ve been gone all day every day this week and couldn’t take pictures of my yard for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day on the 15th.

Poor me. I leave when it’s getting light.

Poor me. I get back when it’s dark.

Poor me. I’ve had to spend every day at the Chicago Flower . . . → Read More: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – The Chicago Flower & Garden Show, Then and Now

Chicago Flower & Garden Show – Behind The Scenes

And now…the moment you’ve all been waiting for…the opening of the Chicago Flower & Garden Show. Wait!!!! It’s not time. It’s too early. It’s even too early for the Friday evening preview to be previewing. So I won’t take the mystery out of the show, but a sneak peak could be fun. A sneak preview . . . → Read More: Chicago Flower & Garden Show – Behind The Scenes

Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – Speaking At The Chicago Flower & Garden Show

I love this quote that Beth Burden sent out to all of the speakers at this year’s Chicago Flower & Garden Show…

IF YOU ARE DELAYED FOR ANY REASON: please call Carol, our on-site seminar manager.

Yep. Me. On-site seminar manager at the Chicago Flower & Garden Show that runs March 9 – 17 at . . . → Read More: Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – Speaking At The Chicago Flower & Garden Show