Join the good folks at Seattle Tilth for the ultimate family garden festival, Saturday, September 11 from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm for their annual Harvest Fair. It will be held at the Good Shepherd Center in Wallingford neighborhood, at 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle. Seattle Tilth will be offering education and entertainment on just [...]

Register now for “Enchanted Garden,” the annual Bellevue Botanical Garden Society’s dinner and auction, to be held on Friday, September 24 at 5:30 pm. Popular auctioneer John Curley will be tempting you to raise your paddle again and again for the fabulous gardening art, accessories, plants and getaways. He’ll have his trusted sidekick, Evening Magazine’s [...]

Recently I got together with a wonderful group of women for our second annual garden soiree, organized by sustainable garden designer extraordinaire, Stacie Crooks.  Because Stacie is on the board of the Bloedel Reserve, she arranged for our group to have the place all to ourselves. It was a splendid Northwest day, the evening air [...]

If you can’t make up your mind whether to go tour a garden, or perhaps go on an artwalk in town, then consider combining the two. The Bellevue Botanical Garden will be hosting its first ‘Art in the Garden’ event, Saturday and Sunday, August 28 & 29 from 10:00 am – 6:00 pm each day. [...]

The good folks at the Elizabeth C. Miller Library have recently updated their book Wish List.  The library staff has combed through hundreds of titles of books, purchased some books within their budget, and put the remaining book titles on their Wish List. You’re invited to either buy one or more books from the list, [...]

The good folks at Plant Amnesty are certifiably committed – to their mission of saving trees and shrubs from damage and disfigurement at the hands of well-intentioned (but woefully uninformed) people. But only they could come up with an event titled “Tree Hugger Bingo & Chile Feed” to raise funds for this worthy cause. This [...]

Are you overrun with summer’s bounty because you got a wee bit carried away with planting your vegetable garden last spring? Stop pawning all your extra zucchini on your friends and neighbors and instead take it to Molbak’s “Share Your Harvest” program. Participating is simple. Simply bring your excess produce to Molbak’s on Saturdays in [...]

You know it’s the start of the fall gardening season when the annual Miller Memorial Lecture takes place. Every year the Pendleton and Elizabeth Carey Miller Charitable Foundation, in conjunction with the Miller Botanical Garden and the Northwest Horticultural Society, sponsors a free lecture by a must-see luminary in the horticulture community. This year’s lecture [...]

Once again horticulture devotees will be gathering in the woods to celebrate plants and gardening.  The Fronderosa Frolic has become a happening event every August. It’s a festival of plants, both rare and common, but all invaluable for Northwest gardens, blended together with garden art and the wit and wisdom of some of the Northwest’s [...]

If you have never had the opportunity to visit award-winning container garden designer Tina Dixon’s garden in Bothell, now is your chance to do so, and to help a valuable cause at the same time. Tina rarely opens her garden to the public, but is doing so this weekend to suppport a worthwhile cause. Tina [...]