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March is a great time to buy plants from a select group of local small nurseries and specialty growers who sell an amazing collection of hard-to-find and old-time favorite perennials, shrubs, ferns, grasses and more. This is a 'Farmer's Market Style' plant sale where you purchase plants directly from each seller - bring your own small wagon/cart to carry your purchases back to your car. Registration not required. MORE INFO

IN-PERSON Taught by Laura Watson in partnership with the Master Gardeners of King County. Learn to bring the amazing beauty and variety of clematis to your garden—with ease. Laura Watson will tell you how.  Using great photos and a friendly speaking style, she will showcase the splendor of clematis and their amazing variety in color, shape, bloom time, and growth habit. Get details about the care of clematis, information about simplified pruning, and recommendations for easy clematis to try. You...

IN-PERSON Come and work on scout badges and achievement requirements at the Botanical Garden! For K-3rd grade Cub Scouts and Girl Scouts. Scouts will visit stations in the Education Center and go on a nature walk. Some of the topics include: composting with worms, insects, Leave No Trace, planting seeds, and pollination. Scouts will receive a garden fun patch and a list of completed activities towards their badge or achievements. You can leave any time you are done. Adult chaperones...

Plant sale of rock garden plants. Open to the public. MORE INFO

ONLINE CLASS Taught by Dorota Haber-Lehigh. Celebrate the ephemeral beauty of spring by creating a drawing of a flower, flower petals, or a flowering branch. Using a variety of colored pencil techniques, you will draw and sketch from observation. The workshop will include a presentation of Dorota’s botanical drawings of various flowers and flowering branches. There will be a demonstration of how to approach drawing from observation with various techniques and then a time to draw together. Participants are encouraged...

THIS IS A HYBRID EVENT: IN-PERSON OR WEBINAR Presented by David Montgomery, UW professor, and Anne Bikle, biologist and environmental planner. David and Anne will describe how the roots of human health begin in the soil with how we grow crops and raise livestock. They will offer their books to sell and sign. Webinar recording will be available to all registrants for two weeks following the live presentation.                        ...

WEBINAR Taught by Molly van der Burch and Jim Little, in partnership with the Master Gardeners of King County. Start to demystify the complex topic of climate change and how it is affecting our PNW gardens. Learn the causes of climate change and how we can make our gardening more climate-friendly by reducing our gardening greenhouse gas emissions and by storing atmospheric CO2 in plants and soil. Finally, encourage all of us as gardeners to educate and inspire others to...

Plant sale featuring fuchsias, iris, daylilies and other plants.  Free and open to the public. MORE INFO.    

May is a great time to buy plants from a select group of local small nurseries and specialty growers who sell an amazing collection of hard-to-find and old-time favorite perennials, shrubs, ferns, grasses and more. Your support helps these growers thrive and prosper, and in return they can grow even more special plants for our gardens! This is a 'Farmer's Market Style' plant sale where you purchase plants directly from each seller. Bring your own small wagon/cart to carry your...

The Goat Rocks Wilderness lies on the Cascade crest between Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams and includes one of the most scenic portions of the Pacific Crest Trail. In August 2021 Mark Turner spent a week backpacking there, visiting Snowgrass Flats, Cispus Basin, and Goat Lake. He’ll share floristic highlights of the area. Mark Turner is a freelance editorial photographer specializing in botanical subjects, especially NW wildflowers and gardens.  His next book for Timber Press (with co-author Sami Gray), Weeds of...