April 1 Column: Orchid Show

Chances are, you’ve seen them everywhere and their beauty takes your breath away. I’m talking about orchids. If you would like to see hundreds of them, be sure to visit the Spokane Orchid Society’s Orchid Show & Sale. It will be held in the Spokane Community College Lair on Apr. 7 and 8.

That’s the topic of my garden column this week. Here’s a link to it in The Spokesman-Review: Learn about orchids at annual show and sale. In addition to the show information, I’ve included orchid-growing tips shared with me by the Spokane Orchid Society’s president and show chair, Jim Pearce, and advertising chair, Alan Alexander.

In this week’s “Everyone Can Grow a Garden” video, I discuss using natural materials from the garden to make plant supports. In it, I even include a short slideshow of the cool supports we saw in the English gardens we visited last June. There’s also a DIY project on how to make an obelisk. Check it out:

I hope it will inspire you to use things from your garden (or your neighbor’s pile of prunings) to make attractive and FREE plant supports! My goal this year is to make several different types so stay tuned!