Bellevue Botanical Garden

Join educators Kate Sorensen and Linda Mank at the Bellevue Botanical Garden for a workshop designed to help K-5 formal and non-formal educators increase their knowledge, skills and tools to create impactful science learning opportunities for students in their schoolyard or at home by utilizing the activities in the Project Learning Tree: PK-8 Environmental Education Activity Guide. This is an adult only workshop. Participants will: Participate in hands-on experience with Project Learning Trees activities and lessons. Identify activities that align...

THIS IS A HYBRID EVENT: IN-PERSON OR WEBINAR Presented by Danilo Maffei, founding principal of Maffei Landscape Design, LLC in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. Danilo’s philosophy is to gather experiences, not things. Objects alone do not make a garden better. Rather, it is an opportunity for people to meaningfully engage with the outdoors in all its ephemerality and to create seasonal transformations that truly elevate the garden from merely functional to truly sublime. In his lecture, Danilo will illustrate thoughtfully crafted...

Taught by Alison Johnson with the Northwest Perennial Alliance. In this hands-on workshop you will learn how to make the wire cloches NPA uses in the Perennial Border at Bellevue Botanical Garden to keep rabbits from eating the plants. They make great plant supports too! Once you learn the wiring skills, you can make them any size and style that suits you, creating something worthy of a place in your garden. We will supply everything you need to make one...

Presented by Cleo Raulerson in partnership with Master Gardener Foundation of King County. You will learn about perennials that provide color for each month of the year. Cleo talks about her favorite “tried and true," “new or unusual," and “self-seeders or creepers” perennials. You will look at criteria to help define what type of garden you have, as well as how to set up a framework for the perennials and other plants you would like in your garden. Cleo will...