Slow Flowers Sunday at the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival

Name: Slow Flowers Sunday at the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival
Start: 2025-02-23T09:30:00-08:00
End: 2025-02-23T13:00:00-08:00
Location: Seattle Convention Center

Schedule

Sun Feb 23 2025 at 09:30 am to 01:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Seattle Convention Center | Seattle, WA

Enjoy a mini-version of the Slow Flowers Summit, with Continental Breakfast, Networking, three inspiring lectures and demonstrations, plus admission to the NW Flower & Garden Festival, Door Prizes and a Gift Bag.
It's for flower farmers, farmer-florists, floral designers, flower lovers, and gardeners!
Cost: $99 per person
SCHEDULE:
9:30-10 a.m. Check-in and Breakfast
10-10:15 a.m. Welcome
10:15-11 a.m. Floral Standards, Expert Cut Flower Growing Tips from NW Flower Farmers
Between them, Diane Szukovathy and Vivian Larson have more than one-half-century of experience as cut flower growers with roots in gardening and horticulture.
Their presentation is based on the new SWGM Floral Standards book, an essential guide for successfully growing and harvesting hundreds of the best annuals, perennials, vines, bulb flowers, deciduous and evergreen foliage, ornamental grasses, shrubs, and trees for floral design.
11:15 a.m.-Noon - Discover the Art of Paper Flowers: A Journey of Creativity and Connection
Quynh D. Nguyen, the paper artist behind Pink and Posey, shares her decade-long journey in paper artistry, from crafting her first floral arrangement to founding The Posey Box and co-creating the Paper Talk Podcast.
This presentation offers a glimpse into Quynh's artistic journey and her enduring passion for creating beauty through paper. She wraps things up with a beautiful paper flower display. Note: You will receive exclusive crepe paper samples and other paper flower supplies with your purchase of Quynh's book.
Noon-12:45 p.m. The Art of Pot-et-Fleur, A Large-Scale Design Demonstration With Plants, Cut Flowers, and Foliage
Lori Poliski is reviving the lost art of Pot-et-Fleur, an iconic floral design historically defined as “living arrangements with plants, cut flowers, and foliage.” Having originated in 17th Century France and continuing through the Victorian era, the design style offers today’s florists a contemporary, sustainable, and long-lasting method of designing with local and seasonal ingredients. “This method is so flexible because it uses living plants with cut flowers,” Lori says. With potted ferns, cut flowers, and other foliage, Lori will demonstrate her approach to designing a large-scale Pot-et-Fleur, including plant sourcing, selection, and care.