The Point Defiance Flower & Garden Show is just a few days away (Friday through Sunday at Point Defiance Park), and serious garden lusting is upon us. I’m wondering, what displays or attractions are you most looking forward to seeing?

For me, last year, the garden displays are where I headed first. I appreciated that the displays were interesting and many simply gorgeous, but also they really offered practical inspiration for a home garden setting.

My biggest peeve of other large garden shows –namely, the Northwest Flower and Garden Show, held in Seattle every February at the convention center – is that the display gardens are just so outrageously designed, and so over the top, that they lack the reality and inspiration for home gardeners in search of solid garden design ideas.

Don’t get me wrong, outrageous garden displays are very fun to gaze at and who doesn’t like a fancy fog misting machine, but who among us really plans on adding a fog misting machine to our gardens (except for maybe the fabulous Craig Sailor, my fellow garden blogger)? Yeah, I thought so. No fog machine in my future. But I'd love to see how to group my heuchera with my carex and make it look stunning enough to draw some serious neighbor envy.

So, readers, tell us what you're looking forward to checking out at the show? What do you want to gaze at? Did the garden displays move you last year? Tell us. Comment here or e-mail me at sue.kidd@thenewstribune.com.