Florence Home & Garden Show • February 28, 2018 • 1c
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f you’ve got a list for home improvement projects, bring it with you to this weekend’s Florence Home & Garden Show. The Florence Events Center will be packed Friday through Sunday with vendors featuring products and services for just about everything you’ll need. Thirty-eight vendors will offer new ideas, products and services. The show incorporates vendor exhibits, landscape design, food tasting, demonstrations, prizes and giveaways into the upbeat, warm and intimate atmosphere of the events center, explained show director Jon Thompson. This year’s show begins Friday,
while they last in when doors will be open from 2 to 6 honor of its 75th p.m. Then again on anniversary this Saturday from 10 year. The Siuslaw Chapter of the a.m. to 6 p.m. and it closes after SunAmerican Rhododay’s showing, from dendron Society 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. will be giving away Admission is just $2 a rhododendron for adults and $1 for plant every hour of children 12 and unthe show. der. Half price couCelia’s Gourmet Foods, Spiritopia pons are available Liqueurs and Kiat Bi-Mart, while they last. If you’re mo’s Dips will give coming to the show Dozens of vendors will come to the Florence Events Center from March 2 to 4 for the attendees a taste of late Saturday, you’ll Florence Home and Garden Show. Taste samples, test products, observe demonstra- home and you can sign up for fresh be pleased to know tions and hear from local and regional vendors all three days of the show. produce with Winter Green Farm. that you can get in for free beCentral Lincoln PUD will be tween 4 p.m. and closing. giving away advanced power strips Kitchen Craft will be demonstrat-
ing its innovative low-fat cookware and offering tasty samples. A Breath of Spring is the theme of the centerpiece design by Laurel Bay Gardens. The local nursery’s display has been the focal point for the show since its inception and this year it will showcase new growing techniques and fresh design concepts for coastal gardens. Laurel Bay Garden’s display will include new products for the grow-your-own gardeners, including Hydrodynamics rooting trays, new potting soils specific for optimum growing in pots, and new lines of organic fertilizers, according to Lisa Walter Sedlacek, who, along with her husband David, See INTRODUCTION Page 2