Northwest Flower & Garden Show

Brian Minter

Since 1972 Brian Minter has been the President of Minter Gardens, a 32-acre world class show garden located 90 miles east of Vancouver, B.C. as well as the President and General Manager of Country Garden Store, a leading edge retail garden center and grower.  Throughout his career he has been a syndicated gardening columnist in a variety of newspapers, a radio columnist with CBC Radio in Canada and BBC Radio in Britain, a gardening host on the cable TV Knowledge Network and an international speaker.  He is the author of Brian Minter’s New Gardening Guide – Fresh Approaches for Canadian Gardeners (1998).  He is involved with many professional horticulture and tourism service organizations, including serving as a Regional Director of the Garden Writer’s Association, and he has won numerous awards for his enterprising, entrepreneurial spirit and contributions to horticulture and Canadian tourism.  Website – www.mintergardens.com

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?  Fantastic Foliage for Containers

Sunday, February 12 at 4:00 pm in the Rainier Room

The hot new trend in today’s container plantings is the creative use of foliage like we’ve never seen before. There are so many new plants with stunning new colors, it’s like being a kid in a colorful candy store!  Learn what works, and what doesn’t, and how you can create these looks in your own containers.