Seminars and plant shopping at the NW Flower & Garden Fest

Oh look, there's my book hanging out next to my friend Lorene's book...
During his presentation Eric called vines "social climbers" (love that) and reminded us that, like toddlers, vines need training. He also reminded me that I simply must find Kintzley's Ghost honeysuckle. 
The show this year featured more plant vendors than I'd seen there in a long while, most of them selling houseplants (cause they're hot, and easy to haul home from the show). This large display was from the Peace Love and Happiness Club.
I found this part of their booth a little disturbing. I assume it was to keep people from pinching pieces of the trendy plants?
The Alpine Gardens booth, which was obviously a lot more than alpines.
Including some very tempting bromeliads/tillandsia
This cutey in the Sunnyside Nursery booth took kokedama to a new place, pineapples! (that's Cryptanthus 'Elaine' btw).
Rita Lee's was up from Oregon, I should have waited until Hortlandia to buy from them, but grabbed a Deuterocohnia brevifolia for a project I'm working on.
Christianson's always has a fabulous selection of plants and a pretty booth.
And who can resist the Andy's Orchids booth? Certainly not I.
A couple of the houseplant vendors came with their tricked-out trailers...

And the Plant Farm came all the way from Spokane!
I got excited when I saw this vendor on the show's Instagram feed. 

In person I realized they weren't selling the sweet leaf designs, just the trellis. Bummer.
I was also interested in the artwork of lilbitgarden, that's moss!
So what did I buy? Well I had to have this Vriesea saundersii. I have one that I was given when I toured the Amazon Spheres growing greenhouses back in 2019 (it's still alive!) but haven't seen any others available since then. I love the subtle coloration on this plant.
Yes it was more than I should have spent (not telling how much more), but hey... it's been a tough winter.
This was my Andy's Orchids purchase, a very lush and blooming (so many buds have opened since I took this photo) Maxillaria variabilis...
Aren't those adorable little blooms?
That was to be it, until on my last day at the show made the mistake of walking back thru the Andy's Orchids offerings and noticing the word pyrrosia—you know I am a freak for pyrrosia! This was an entirely different species than the ones I'd seen before, so... it became mine.
Pyrrosia nummularifolia, from Thailand.
Having spotted one pyrrosia I had to look around to make sure I wasn't leaving another behind, thus a Pyrrosia piloselloides (Laos) also came home with me.
More pyrrosia is always a good thing!

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