We’re back again this year to see stuff, buy plants and seeds and meet people. My favorite this year is this rolling green house.
Every year in the spring I go to the Stockholm garden show. In a way it’s getting old and boring, but I have to go to meet friends and get some stuff and inspiration.
Here are some picts.
The greatest surprise and inspiration were the rusty sheet metal containers. I’m going to have to get into welding. I’d like to sink a metal ring around each crop circle.
This girl was eager to tell me all about the situation in Africa for food, farmers and saving traditional crop seed. I was intrigued by the standing balls of straw – not bee hives or bird houses, but seed saving bundles!
Bird houses made by school children.
A shirt/jacket I wish I had bought.
A lighting rack for starting plants indoors I wish I had.
Some fencing
There was a portable heavy-duty frame with tarp roof that was being used to hang hamocks that they were selling. It won’t blow apart in a storm either. But it was from Hungary and not for sale. Next year maybe he said.
And of coarse I got some plants – a cold-hearty wisteria from Siberia and a golden cherry tree – from my favorite garden store in Finland – Blomquists.
I saw a lot of cool stuff and met a lot of interesting people at the garden show. The NORTHWEST FLOWER & GARDEN SHOW.
A stone slab mound
Rain forest garden
Basalt pillars
Marenakos supplies stones to just about everyone
He had the biggest stones and wild bonsai and was my favorite.
His juniper scrag gave me some ideas.
Biodynamics was represented – good dirt to stick your hands into, but I was suprised at the absence of other alterantive gardening groups.
There was an excellent lactic acid bacteria pickling seminar by Erica Strauss
I learned quite a few new tricks -and bought her book.
And there was much, much more…