Some people bring their dogs with them on planes. Plant people bring plants?! At least they do when returning from a garden show….. #pinkprincessphilodendron #provenwinners #grandgardenshow #houseplants #crazyplantlady

More from day one of the Grand Garden Show garden tours! Finishing up the tours this afternoon. #grandgardenshow #provenwinners

Came in for the Grand Garden Show a couple days early, and spent the afternoon on the dock at the Hotel Iroquois for drinks and apps. The experience was was simply amazing! Jack Barnwell and his team are absolutely incredible. The redesign and plantings are so beautiful. One of the must see places on Mackinac Island #hoteliroquois #mackinacisland #jackbarnwelldesigns #provenwinners #aquapots #grandgardenshow #bucketlist

Today is our 31st wedding anniversary. Last year we celebrated our 30th anniversary by doing something we had done on our honeymoon, riding a tandem bike around Mackinac Island. I was not a gardener when we got married, but Stan was already my enabler, making my dreams come true.   chezrea —This is the guy who built and rebuilt my raised beds, our deck, & my bean towers. He also built my potting benches (two!), my hugelkulter berry bed, & the original garden entrance arbor, & he installed several metal arbors. He pulls weeds, mows the lawn, composts, digs holes, & shovels manure, too. But he is not, he insists, a gardener! That's my role, & I'm his wife. That's why he likes to refer to me as "the gardener wife." Here are a few more pics comparing our honeymoon adventures to last year's 30th anniversary extravaganza trip. We turned that trip into our own “Grand Garden Show” since we had enjoyed going to the Proven Winners Grand Garden Show at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island for our 25th & 27th anniversaries. You'll find a playlist of videos from The Gardener Wife Grand Garden Show at the link in my profile. #anniversarytrip #tandem #grandgardenshow #truelove #1Corinthians13 #honeymooning #honeymoonisland #mackinacisland #makeitmackinac #gardenlife #joyinthejourney

It was an absolute dream to visit Mackinac Island for the Grand Garden Show! #grandgardenshow #jackbarnwelldesign #provenwinners

This is it! The final countdown to our Grand Garden Show at the award winning historic Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan! Pre-show festivities begin this Saturday evening with a cocktail party in the gardens, followed by a Sunday afternoon cooking demonstration with celebrity chef Nathan Lyon. Sunday evening, we'll welcome all Grand Hotel guest for our opening reception in the gardens followed by a memorable dining experience in the Main Dining Room. Monday and Tuesday, you'll enjoy a mix of inspirational garden tours and speaker sessions. In the mornings, you'll hear from Laura of gardenanswer, Jenny of creeksidenursery, Paul Zammit and other dynamic speakers. The afternoons will be filled with garden tours at some of the most magnificent homes on Mackinac Island, all designed and tended by Jack Barnwell and his skilled team at jackbarnwelldesign. You'll leave incredibly inspired and motivated to garden! Mackinac Island is one of the most unique, enchanting vacation spots in America. You'll step back in time when you step off the ferry that delivers you to this magical place. No motor vehicles fill the streets of Mackinac. Instead, you'll hop on a bike or up onto a carriage drawn by fine horses and make your way up the hill to the Grand Hotel for the Grand Garden Show. From the porch, you'll glimpse the magnificent Mackinac Bridge--the fifth longest suspension bridge in the world--which crosses the sparkling Straits of Mackinac. All the cares in the world seem to evaporate when you are in this enchanting place. Thank you to the 600+ guests who will be joining us for our 9th annual Grand Garden Show. After a two-year hiatus, we are thrilled to be back! This year, we will be occupying the entire Grand Hotel--an entire hotel of gardening enthusiasts. We can't wait to greet you and have a ball this weekend. Grand Garden Show tickets go on sale just before the holidays (an extra-special gift!) and sell out by March. If you'd like to join us next year, stay tuned to future announcements. Wave hello in the comments below if you are one of the lucky ones who will be joining us this year! Swipe left for a look at past Grand Garden Shows.