Comments on: 2008 BC Home and Garden Show report

By: Juliet Lin

Juliet Lin — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:44:53 +0000

Thank you for including our patio under “nice”, we agree with you whole heartedly. This is a first in many ways for Peter Toews and myself. Our first co-designed and collaborated effort, our first display at the BC Home and Garden Show.
We are grateful to Uli Rasehorn of Spirithouse for the loan of the Thai sculptures and decor, ELT for the living wall panels, Rona for cedar strips, indoor/outdoor carpet and lights and Roberta for the loan of her patio chairs.
The dismantled living wall has provided me with a fresh salad, some herbs, an indoor zen moss garden and….do you know anyone who has a wheatgrass juicer?

By: Andrea Bellamy

Andrea Bellamy — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:17:43 +0000

Thanks for the correction, Anne. Sorry I goofed that up. I will make a note in the post. I did enjoy the display gardens; my comments about lack of innovation were more directed toward the tradeshow booths.

By: Anne Talbot -Kelly

Anne Talbot -Kelly — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:44:19 +0000

Hi,
Thank you for the compliment on our display….I just wanted to make a wee correction. The display was not done by G-Sky but myself…Anne Talbot -Kelly. G-Sky loaned me their system and we adapted it to fit our structure. It was a communal effort…which is why I put all of our names onto the sign. So, the order of things were Anne Talbot-Kelly Garden Design (me ) designed it,( this is somewhat of a replica I did at the Bentall Center” Gardens in the City” project last spring with “Fireworks”,and Tom Stulberg…that garden was featured in Georgia Straight last weekend with an interview with G-Sky ) Ray Lachance’s Handcrafted built the wall structure,G-Sky supplied the plant system, Moonshadows installed the lighting, Northwest Landscape Supply loaned the stones, my kids,and friends supplied their feet for my sparkling, green footprint wall,and the ocean lent us the seaweed to scatter along the shoreline of the display.
I’m interested to hear your feedback as I feel the show always lacks in innovation but this one I did feel was the best so far……I wanted to do an interactive display but logistically could not as my space kept changing (which I love!)and I had to improvise even on the day of installation! So I hoped to leave people wondering about the wall and using Art as a message to walk lightly on our Earth as the footprints went from big to tiny newborn size. I’m curious if anyone got it as I did not want to spell it out , that seemed too easy…let the imagination work….
Thanx, Anne Talbot-Kelly

By: kate

kate — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:15:08 +0000

It sounds remarkably like the home and garden show here … I will find out soon if there are at least some living plants featured now.

I stopped going because there hasn’t been any greenery shown at all – patios, outdoor furniture, but nothing about gardening.

By: ricki

ricki — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:54:28 +0000

Amen to that. In Portland OR, the Yard, Garden & Patio Show (with many commercial booths, but mostly garden-centric wares) and the Homes & Garden Show (a cousin to the show you so vividly describe) have for many years fallen on the same weekend. This year they were a week apart, so I bestirred myself to H&G. The plant sale and landscaping displays were an oasis in a sea of aluminum and plastic…horrors!…never again!

By: Jim/ArtofGardening

Jim/ArtofGardening — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:06:45 +0000

I think this has happened at all home & garden shows around the country. Much like HGTV, the emphasis is on home, rather than garden. Well, that, and chiropractic & massage needs.

I’m not going to our Home & Garden show. I will be at the local landscape & nurseryman’s version, Plantasia. I’ll be manning a booth for Garden Walk Buffalo for a bit. It gets me in for free!