Portland Home & Garden Show to feature a variety of products and services

Each year we get information sent to us by our vendors and participants, and we are excited to add this new blog to our information sources.  Each week we will present the products and services that our vendors send to us with links and website info.  Any of our vendors can send us information, so it’s important to note, this blog is not an endorsement, but simply one more resource you can utilize to find home and garden products and services!

One of our long time vendors – Frey’s Dahlias will be back at the show, they have some remarkable and gorgeous flowers each and every year.  It’s such a joy to go by their booth and see the varieties.  Also during this time of year, they offer up some winter tips:  Keep the dahlias from freezing. If your winters are not too harsh you can leave them in the ground, cut them back, mulch with leaves, sawdust or dirt. You can even put plastic sheeting on top before the leaves, or plastic caps, like margarine containers. This helps water from going directly down the crown of the dahlia clump and thus helps them from freezing or drowning.  If you live where the winters freeze into the ground down to where the tubers are, you will need to dig them and store them so they will not freeze and rot. See our information under Growing and Care directions or email with specific questions.  It is generally not as hard or as intimidating as it sounds and we are here to help! http://www.freysdahlias.com

For those frustrated with fogging glasses and lenses, we have KleerVu selling directly at the Portland Home & Garden Show to consumers.  One of their more popular products was the old rub on anti-fog that came in a small tub and was applied to the lens using your finger. Seeing the need and possibilities of a safer more effective anti-fog with a combined cleaner the company re-focused and developed the KleerVu liquid anti-fog cleaner.  Here is their facebook page and web site…  take a look if in need.  Their Facebook page is a good place to start.

Here’s a great idea!  The Shaker Craftsmen salvages old houses and barns and turns the wood into Shaker furniture. All of their furniture is constructed using no nails or screws. Table tops are spline-jointed and legs are mortised and pegged, drawers are dovetailed and pegged. They then hand-plane each piece to give it a very unique and hand tooled feel and look. They take great pride in everything that they do and each piece is signed, numbered and dated. A complete history comes with each piece showing where the wood came from and the history of the building. Their website is www.theshakercraftsman.com.   Go check it out!

 

Disclaimer: The Portland Home & Garden Show and HBA of Metro Portland provides information to consumers, show goers and attendees through various channels including our blogs, facebook posts, twitter feed and web site – and does not endorse or test the claims of all of its vendors and suppliers.  We always recommend thoroughly checking out any business, service or product supplier and be a smart consumer.