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SUMMARY:NHS After Hours at Northwest Garden & Stone (Members Only)
DESCRIPTION:Discover Northwest Garden & Stone\nNorthwest Garden & Stone opened in late 2024 and focuses on specialty perennials\, conifers\, Japanese maples\, and climate-adapted selections that push traditional growing boundaries. It offers a thoughtfully curated experience that goes beyond traditional landscape supply. In addition to select natural stone and garden materials\, you’ll find garden accents and containers and a highly unique gift shop featuring local artisans\, with one-of-a-kind items for home and garden.  \nOwner Gary Musket also owns nearby Northwest Landscape Supply\, which provides organic soils\, composts\, soil amendments and a wide variety of crushed rock. General Manager Matt Porter spent 20 years as general manager at Molbak’s and prior to that\, was a sales manager at Roger’s Gardens in Southern California for 10 years\, where he developed a passion for low-water-use\, structural\, and climate-adapted plants. \n 
URL:https://northwesthort.org/event/nhs-after-hours-at-northwest-garden-stone/
LOCATION:Northwest Garden & Stone\, 24200 76th Ave. West\, Edmonds\, WA\, 98026
CATEGORIES:NHS After Hours Free Members' Event
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SUMMARY:Grow Great Vegetables in Washington: Lorene Edwards Forkner’s New Book
DESCRIPTION:Seattle-based gardening expert Lorene Edwards Forkner will reveal her top ten secrets for cultivating a plentiful\, year-round edible harvest. Her most recent book\, Grow Great Vegetables in Washington (Timber Press\, 2026)\, is packed with gardening basics\, tips and to-do’s tailored to each month of the year\, handy planting and harvesting charts\, and more than 35 comprehensive plant profiles. In this webinar\, Lorene will inspire gardeners of all experience levels to cultivate an irresistible edible bounty all year long. \nSpeaker’s bio: \nLorene is an author and speaker whose work centers on exploring the wonders of the natural world and garden-making. Lorene writes a weekly gardening column for Pacific NW Magazine in The Seattle Times\, posts monthly on Garden Rant\, and publishes Cultivating Color on Substack.
URL:https://northwesthort.org/event/cultivating-delicious-10-secrets-for-your-edible-garden-with-lorene-edwards-forkner/
LOCATION:Live Webinar
CATEGORIES:Webinar Lecture
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SUMMARY:Plant Breeding for the Home Gardener with Janet Egger at Dunn Gardens -- SOLD OUT
DESCRIPTION:Discover the fascinating world of plant breeding and learn how to create your own unique flowers and vegetables in your home garden. In this hands-on class\, professional plant breeder Janet will guide you through the essentials of getting started: you’ll explore flower anatomy\, learn how to select the best parent plants\, practice cross-pollination techniques\, and understand how to harvest and store seeds for future growing. \nInstructor’s bio: \nJanet Egger has been in horticulture since 1971 and has been a plant breeder since 1980. She holds a B.S. in botany and an M.S. in horticulture from UC Davis. She retired as head plant breeder for Oregon’s Terra Nova Nurseries in 2019. Janet bred many plants in the trade\, including cultivars of Heuchera\, Heucherella\, Sedum\, Kniphofia\, Agastache\, Penstemon\, Phygelius\, Podophyllum ‘Spotty Dotty’\, among others. She has taught horticulture classes at UC Davis\, Merritt College and Gavilan College. She volunteers at Dunn Gardens as a board member\, docent\, propagator\, lecturer and plant identifier.
URL:https://northwesthort.org/event/plant-breeding-for-the-home-gardener-with-janet-egger-at-dunn-gardens/
LOCATION:Dunn Gardens\, 13533 Northshire Rd. NW\, Seattle\, WA\, 98177
CATEGORIES:In-person Class
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SUMMARY:Chelsea Inspiration: Ideas to Steal for Your Garden with Grace Hensley -- FREE TO MEMBERS!
DESCRIPTION:NHS member and class instructor Grace Hensley will deliver insights\, trend reports and more from her experience at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The event is outdoors\, crowded and unlike anything else in the garden world — this talk is your armchair ticket. Start at Sloane Square with Chelsea in Bloom\, soak up the show’s energy and atmosphere from the Main Avenue\, and explore the hidden balcony designs from emerging designers. Learn how to read a show garden and get into the design details worth stealing: hardscapes\, plant combinations\, foliage\, color\, naturalistic planting and what the breeders are bringing to the market. See what makes Chelsea different from the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival. Grace will delve into the question every PNW gardener ends up asking: what actually works here? \nSpeaker’s bio: \nGrace Hensley is a Garden Comm Media Award-winning photographer and experienced international speaker who delivers highly practical talks\, workshops and lectures\, both online and in person. Widely praised for her clear teaching and professional delivery\, she helps audiences turn everyday photography into confident\, publishable images.
URL:https://northwesthort.org/event/chelsea-inspiration-ideas-to-steal-for-your-garden-with-grace-hensley-free-to-members/
LOCATION:Live Webinar
CATEGORIES:Members Free Lecture Series,Webinar Lecture
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SUMMARY:Sketching in the Garden: Seeing Plants More Closely with Crystal Shin -- SOLD OUT
DESCRIPTION:Discover how sketching can deepen the way you observe and appreciate plants in this class at Bellevue Botanical Garden\, designed especially for plant lovers and gardeners. No prior drawing experience is necessary. Botanical sketch journaling is not about making perfect drawings—it is about slowing down\, noticing details and recording your observations in a creative way. Esteemed botanical illustrator Crystal Shin will guide you through simple techniques for observing and sketching plants. Learn what botanical features to look for\, how to begin a sketch journal and how quick sketches can help you better understand plant forms and structures. You will receive a sketchbook and pencil for in-class use that you can take home. Feel free to bring your own drawing supplies. \nInstructor’s Bio: \nCrystal is a botanical artist and natural science illustrator known for her detailed\, scientifically accurate plant drawings. She completed the Natural Science Illustration Certificate program at the University of Washington and served as the primary botanical illustrator for the second edition of Flora of the Pacific Northwest for the UW Herbarium at the Burke Museum\, creating 882 illustrations. She continues to work with the Herbarium as a botanical illustrator\, and her artwork has been featured in various scientific journals and publications. Crystal is a sought-after instructor\, teaching nationally and internationally for various organizations including the Burke Museum\, the Washington Native Plant Society\, the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Northwest\, Pacific Northwest Botanical Artists\, the American Society of Botanical Artists\, the New York Botanical Gardens\, and the Vienna School of Botanical Illustration.     \n \n 
URL:https://northwesthort.org/event/sketching-in-the-garden-seeing-plants-more-closely-with-crystal-shin/
LOCATION:Bellevue Botanical Garden\, Aaron Education Center\, 12001 Main St.\, Bellevue\, WA\, 98005
CATEGORIES:In-person Class
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