It's Time to “Parade” into Spring this Weekend at the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival

“Spring Parade” is the theme of the 2026 Northwest Flower & Garden Festival, and this year’s event lives up to this - and more!

Running now through Sunday at the Seattle Convention Center, this year’s Northwest Flower & Garden Festival features an abundant and delightful array of inspirational ideas, products and displays that celebrate all things for the garden.  Whether you live in a house, townhome, condo or apartment, whether you're looking to transform your outdoor space or bring the outdoors inside, there is something for just about everyone at this year’s show.

Highlighting the show once again this year are the Display Gardens.  Created in just 72 hours by some of the leading garden designers in the region, this year’s Display Gardens feature a variety of themes from romantic to whimsical.  Natural materials such as reclaimed logs and locally sourced stone, native and Northwest-friendly plants and sustainable gardening/garden features are a recurring element in many of this year’s displays, including Founder’s Cup winner “Where Stories Take Root” (West Seattle Nursery) and the Puyallup Tribe of Indians’ “The Knowledge of Place and Time.”  There are strong water elements in gardens too, including a pondless waterfall (Nature Perfect Landscape and Design) and ponds and water features with Japanese Rice Fish and aquatic plants (HomeGrown Organics). There’s even a vintage Volkswagen Beetle, complete with surfboard in the backseat, in another garden, as well as a putting garden in “The Active Family Garden” (Adam Gorski Landscapes).

For condo and apartment dwellers, as well as homeowners seeking inspiration for balconies and patios, there is the “City Living” section, featuring display gardens designed for patio gardens and those with limited outdoor spaces.  This year’s City Living displays run the gambit, from “Le Petit Jardin,” a delightful child’s garden by Obsidian Windchimes and Design featuring tech free play spaces with soft plantings and whimsical elements, to “Birds in the City”, an aviary-themed patio garden by Fischer Homes that blends outdoor living with pigeon keeping.

Local artists, crafts people and jewelry makers are in abundance too, as well as more than 60 nurseries such as Ravenna Gardens offering their wares for sale.  Seminars featuring leading experts in the garden field are featured daily.

Show hours are: Friday and Saturday 9 am - 8 pm, and Sunday 9 am - 6 pm.  To purchase tickets, or for more information on the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival, including the seminar line up, please visit https://www.gardenshow.com/.