Follow the Blooms: BBG Episode Screening and Q&A with host Katie Lila

Join host Katie Lila for a viewing of the Follow The Blooms episode featuring Bellevue Botanical Garden when we hosted the Slow Flowers Summit. Airing nationally on PBS this summer, Follow The Blooms is an adventurous floral journey where creativity meets nature in the most unexpected places. Traveling to small flower farms across the region and beyond, Katie seeks out fresh, vibrant blooms at their peak. But the adventure doesn’t stop in the fields! Katie takes these stunning flowers and transforms them into big, joy-filled, hands-on flower installations for communities to enjoy, while sharing the stories of growers, designers, and artists along the way. Katie Lila is the founder of Flowers For People and creator/host of Follow The Blooms, airing nationally on public television this summer. She’s on a mission to bring flowers out of the background and into everyday life in ways that feel joyful, meaningful, and impossible to ignore. She’s always asking, What else can we do with flowers? Through Flowers For People, Katie blends floral design, storytelling, community connection, and big visual moments to create work that helps people feel something. From public installations to bouquet concepts to media, she believes flowers can spark beauty, belonging, and a little more aliveness in the world. Her work is rooted in the belief that in a world often divided, flowers soften and unify us. This is a free drop-in event. Registration is not required.