The Original Plant Sale is back!  The Plant Sale will have dozens of the finest nurseries in the area participating – providing the ultimate in spring fun and ideas.  A great selection of plants is available including grasses, perennials, shrubs, plants of special interest and more.

Be sure to check out the 2012 Smart Home Remodel. Robert Knowles Construction along with designers Troy Farnsworth and Jennifer Myers are heading up a team of dozens of local companies to build a home from the ground up in less than 52 hours – all inside the Expo Center!  This house will have a beautiful full sized bathroom with wheel chair access and other universal design benefits. The home will feature solar arrays, gorgeous outdoor living spaces, energy saving appliances, bamboo cabinets, recycled countertops, high performing walls (energy efficiency) and automatic window shades.  The home will educate attendees about the simple features that a homeowner can incorporate during a remodel, or new home construction project.  Come see this outstanding example of today’s smart home!

Yes, its true, as you might have read on their website bloggers – John and Sherry Petersik of Young House Love are slated to be at the Portland Home & Garden Show!

John and Sherry are 29 and their house is 49 and It’s practically old enough to be their mom, but they treat it like it’s their baby. They are not experts, just DIY dorks who like learning as they go and sharing their adventures and misadventures with the world. That’s right, they’re bona fide full time bloggers as well as stay at home parents who are raising a one year old while juggling DIY projects, post-writing, book-writing, and lots of other bloggy goodness. They like to say that they make a modest living by blogging about living modestly. Now it’s just a matter of finding enough hours in the day to keep up with their ever growing to-do list and share every last detail on this little slice of the internet that they call home.

Their appearance at the Spring Home and Garden Show will include an invite only blogging seminar followed by an open Meet and Greet with the couple.

You can follow them at www.YoungHouseLove.com.

Below are some pictures from the Showcase Gardens in year’s past:

Be part of the most successful show in one of the fastest growing regions in the country: the Portland Home & Garden Show. Held at the Portland Expo Center with over 315,000 square feet (covering the space of eight city blocks) to accommodate record crowds. But more than just crowds, we draw qualified buyers. Many of our exhibitors do half or more of their annual sales at our show. And 86% of our attendees made or planned to make purchases based on what they saw at the Show.

As part of the Portland Home & Garden Show, you’ll get unparalleled exposure through our strong promotion package. With an advertising campaign that exceeds $200,000 there is no reason why any company shouldn’t participate

You can be part of this winning team of highly successful exhibitors if you hurry and contact us today to reserve your space.

Come to the Portland Home & Garden Show, one of the largest shows of its kind in Oregon for the past 65 years; visit the show this February 22 through 26. Sponsored by the HBA of Metropolitan Portland, and Toyota – the official vehicle of the show.

Visit www.OTShows.com for more details!

11am     Design on a Dime

1pm      Remodeling 101

Noon – Fall Yard Maintenance

2:00 pm – Flooring Clinic
The experts at The Home Depot will teach you how to install laminate and tile flooring on your own. Learn the proper skills, tools and products you will need to lay the new floor of your dreams in your home.

4:00 pm – Home Painting
Do you know the real difference between interior and exterior paint? You may think you do but you really don’t. Glidden will be on hand to explain that difference and much more about what paint to choose and how to use it.

11am     Solar 101

1pm      Design on a Dime

3pm      Remodeling 101

5pm      Cost vs Value