Eastside Maison

Winter 2016

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he Northwest Flower & Garden Show has been heralding the start of spring since 1989, as gardening enthusiasts from around the Northwest flock to this annual celebration held in the beautiful Washington State Convention Center for five magical days. But like all gardens this show took traits that are innate to gardeners; planning, a sprinkle of risk and truth be told, blind faith. The sort of faith that comes with understanding that if the elements are in place— seasonally and otherwise, and if the gardens are tended to with care and a bit of knowledge those ideas will blossom. Duane Kelly, founder of the Northwest Flower & Garden Show, possessed all of these traits along with the courage to mortgage his house and assume enormous risk. After visiting the 1987 Philadelphia Flower Show, Kelly told his wife Alice that he thought Seattle would be fertile ground for a similar type show. Kelly was a businessman and had started other successful ventures, which gave Alice a kind of confidence—some might qualify as a different kind of blind faith. She knew that his great idea wasn't just a T

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