It's Flower Show Week!
February 23-26, 2017
Got Spring Fever? The Flower Show will kick start your season...

Flower Show Week is here! My staff and I have been at the CT Convention Center in Hartford since Sunday. Wait until you see the show this year- it is going to be amazing! We are lucky enough to be able to watch all of the beautiful landscapes come together from start to finish. As we walk up and down the aisles, we are seeing lots of new vendors. 

What is Natureworks up to this year? A LOT! Besides our ginormous retail booth, packed to the gills with SEEDS, terrariums, bulbs, fairy gardens, books, and so much more, we are also creating TWO educational displays. Right next to our booth Diane and her team have designed a monarch butterfly educational display. It is beautiful and tells the story of how we have raised over 1000 monarch butterflies at Natureworks in the past few years. 

In the landscape section, I have designed a pollinator garden, complete with an insect hotel created by Kassie and Kyle. It's not a big garden, but it tells a great story- how early blooming trees, shrubs, perennials, and bulbs are SO important for our native pollinators. 

I hope you can come to the show this year. With the warm weather this week, the witch hazels are blooming and the winter aconites are opening on the south side of the shop. I have been seeing photos of Hellebores in flower on Facebook. You will see TONS of all of the above in the landscapes at the flower show. Trust me, you NEED this escape to a lush world of flowering plants to help you get through until Natureworks reopens on March 20th.

See you at the show!

Click the button near the photo to view the Flower Show website.

2016 Flower Show standing room only at Nancy's lecture.
Gardeners,
Educate Yourselves!

I will be speaking twice at the flower show. On Thursday at 3:30 I will talk about Plants with a Purpose: More than Just a Pretty Face. This is such an important subject for me to talk about and it is at the heart of the plants we sell at Natureworks. Today’s homeowners want plants that serve multiple purposes from creating a habitat for birds, hummingbirds, and butterflies, to encouraging pollinators and beneficial insects, food for the table, enrich the soil, even herbal plants that aid in healing and stress relief. Learn how to incorporate useful AND beautiful plants into your yard.

On Sunday at 2 I will be teaching More Food From Small Gardens: Growing lots of Food from Early Spring to Late Fall in No Matter How Small Your Space. Last year the room was so full, people were turned away. Rumor has it I will be in a bigger room this year!

There are SO many wonderful talks all four days of the flower show it will be hard to stay in the exhibition hall and work at my booth. Lots of my favorite speakers will be talking including Karen Bussolini (speaking about creating a pollinator garden on Saturday), Jan Johnson, Robert Herman, Sal Gilbertie, Andy Brand, Roger Swain, and many more. 

Click the button near the lecture hall photo to see the seminar schedule.

P.S. Monday, Feburary 27th is the last day to
pre-register for my upcoming seminar Bee the Change on March 4th. After Monday, walk-ins are welcome to attend but the cost will be $40 at the door. You can register easily on line. Do it today and please tell a friend. This is a really important seminar!
Why is Diane Smiling?
Diane St. John LOVES monarch butterflies. This year she has been given the opportunity (along with the very creative Natureworker Jillian Shea) to create an educational booth, at the Flower Show, all about raising monarch butterflies, planting milkweed, and how you can help these beautiful butterflies to thrive. Don't miss it!
 
Why is Amber Smiling?
Amber loves to create and design. Last week she was tasked with planting a LOT of beautiful terrariums which will be hanging in our booth at the flower show Thursday through Sunday. Earlier this week she put together our amazing miniature gardening displays in our flower show booth. Wait till you see what we have in store for you this year!
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HOURS 
Natureworks retail shop is closed for the winter. We will re-open on the first day of Spring March 20, 2017.


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