Flowers and Foliage are nice to have, but fragrance can take your garden to the next level. Fragrance invokes memories and places making your garden an emotional refuge filled with personal connections. Learn about some of the best plants for fragrance, many selected as Great Plant Picks (www.greatplantpicks.org) for their durability in the garden.... Read More
Hit the Registration Button to be added to the Waitlist! Get to Know Your Neighborhood: Center For Urban Horticulture, Union Bay Natural Area Plant Identification - and probably some bird talk with Michelle Rau and friends Join us as we begin to explore the common, and not-so-common plants used throughout neighborhoods in the Puget Sound area.... Read More
Hit the Registration Button to be Added to the Waitlist! Get to Know Your Neighborhood: Center For Urban Horticulture, Union Bay Natural Area Plant Identification - and probably some bird talk with Michelle Rau and friends Join us as we begin to explore the common, and not-so-common plants used throughout neighborhoods in the Puget Sound area.... Read More
How to Combine Shape, Color and Texture to Create the Garden of Your Dreams Jenny Rose Carey brings a lifetime of flower growing to this lecture. Having grown up in England, and currently gardening on four and one-half acres at Northview in Pennsylvania, Jenny Rose will share ideas and tips about how she puts... Read More
Learn how garden design principles can guide your photography, as well as how the immersive art of taking photos will improve your own garden. This class will also cover creative photography techniques, and basic dSLR and iPhone/Android settings. Students should bring the camera they have (either a digital camera or a smartphone) and we’ll... Read More
Join Bess Bronstein and Richie Steffen as they share their years of experience in planting containers for all kinds of gardens. They will cover it all, from container materials to soils and, of course, plants and planting! Bess Bronstein is an ISA Certified Arborist, educator and horticultural consultant based on the Kitsap Peninsula in... Read More
It’s ALL about soil! Most people only have a vague idea of what soil is and how it works. You will learn more than you ever thought possible from this lecture: the reason you are alive, what nutrients are, how soil stores water and nutrients. The fundamentals that ALL humans on the planet... Read More
This class is sold out, click register to add your name to the waitlist! Growing a Home Cutting Garden with Sarah Nayani Learn how to grow and harvest flowers from your own backyard, and fill your home with beauty and fragrance. Instructor Sarah Nayani from Grow Girl Seattle will walk beginners through starting a home... Read More
This class is sold out, click register to add your name to the waitlist! Demystifying Botanical Latin with Daniel Sparler Who says botanical Latin (also known as scientific nomenclature) has... Read More
The Northwest Horticultural Society presents an in-person lecture by Jennifer Jewell at the Bellevue Botanical Garden, Aaron Education Center. In her presentation, Jennifer Jewell will explore how the... Read More
(Photo by: Mary Grace Long) Seeing Color in the Garden with Lorene Edwards Forkner Color is both a delightful gift and one of nature’s most sophisticated tools to... Read More
Learning To Be Home - 25 years of designing with PNW native plants: Lessons, inspirations, and questions with Shannon Nichol This is an exciting time in our region... Read More
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