Seminars & Events
for May 2008
• Every
Friday
9:15am - Master Ikebana artist, Megumi Schacher,
teaches an approximately 90 minute, ongoing class every
Friday morning. Sogetsu Ikebana uses local materials
in an accessible style that is appropriate in any setting.
Megumi provides all the plant material you will need
to create a beautiful arrangement for your home. Participants
must call Megumi at (425)
744-9751 by the Tuesday before their first class to reserve
a place and ensure materials will be available for them. Class
fee: $25 per session.
• Saturday,
May 3 - 5pm - Warm Weather Veggies - Delicious,
and beautiful with vibrant colors and fantastical
shapes, warm weather veggies are a joy to look at
as well as to eat. They need warm soil, and do not
take kindly to chilly nights. Now is the time to
start planting them out and to plan the feasts you'll
have in July and August - fresh buttery corn, snappy
beans, curly squash, luscious eggplants, glossy chili
peppers, sweet, juicy tomatoes. Candy will share
valuable tips gathered from her extensive experience
of growing, preparing, and eating these fabulous
veggies.
• Saturdays,
May 17th, May 24th and May 31st - 5pm - Gardening
101, 102, 103 - Swanson's Meghan Fuller has
the experience and enthusiasm to help and inspire
new gardeners. These three classes are an expanded
version of Meghan's popular Gardening 101 class and
cover everything you need to know to create a thriving
garden. You don't need to have gardened for years
to be successful, but you do need to understand some
basics. People are welcome to attend just one or
all three.
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May 17th - Gardening 101 will cover important
gardening terms; soil, including how to do your own
simple soil tests; and mulch.
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May 24th - Gardening 102 Light, plant selection,
planting, and watering.
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May 31st - Gardening 103 will cover
year-round care of your garden, fertilizing,
and pruning.
Seminars & Events
for June 2008
• Every
Friday through June.
9:15am - Master Ikebana artist, Megumi
Schacher, teaches
an approximately 90 minute, ongoing class every Friday
morning. Sogetsu Ikebana uses local materials in
an accessible style that is appropriate in any setting.
Megumi provides all the plant material you will need
to create a beautiful arrangement for your home.
Participants must call Megumi at (425)
744-9751 by the Tuesday before their first class
to reserve a place and ensure materials will be
available for them. Class fee: $25 per session
• Saturday,
June 7th - 10am - Great Plant Picks - Alex LaVilla,
Swansons Perennials Manager, Chairs the Great
Plant Picks Selection Committee for Perennials. In
this class Alex will take you on a virtual journey
through the tests and trials of the Great Plant Picks
selection process and introduce those chosen for their
exceptional qualities as garden specimens in your garden.
• Sunday,
June 8th - 4pm - Tropical Look-Alike Plants - The vibrant colors and lush foliage of tropical plants
offer a beguiling challenge for the Puget Sound gardener.
Swanson's Ben Mark will show hardy look-alike plants
that will help you create a tropical garden paradise
that is at home in the Northwest.
• Saturday,
June 14 - 10am - Container Design - Swansons Meghan
Fuller demonstrates designing and planting containers
for year-round interest.
Learn to create pots that will perform happily, making
strong statements in your garden, on your patio or
at your entry. The containers, soils, planting, fertilizing,
and on-going care are discussed, as well as design
and plant selection. A fun introduction to container
design!
• Sunday,
June 22nd - 2pm - Container Design - Carrie Becker, garden designer , co-founder of the Bellevue
Botanical Garden Perennial Border and co-author of
'Perennials The Gardener's Reference', changes scale
to demonstrate design for a container. Design principles
apply whatever the scale and the choice of plants is
even more critical when they are given center stage
in a beautiful container.
• Saturday,
June 28 - Lavender - A long time favorite
in Northwest gardens.
There is a bewildering selection, so come to this delightfully
scented class and learn about the different characteristics
of each variety. We'll talk about soils, watering,
and pruning, and we'll have fun sharing recipes, and
talking about the many ways this wonderful plant has
been used throughout its rich history.
• Sunday,
June 29 - 10am - Xeriscaping or dry landscaping,
is the art of landscaping with plants that, once established,
require less water than the more traditional plants
grown in NW gardens. While typically used in climates
that are hotter and drier than the Pacific NW, climate
change is causing us to consider xeriscaping as a rewarding
gardening practice. The advantages to practicing xeriscaping
are numerous. Swansons Ben Mark shares both his experience
of gardening with these methods, and his wide knowledge
of drought tolerant plants from all over the world,
that are appropriate for use in xeriscaping.
Seminars & Events
for July 2008
• Saturday,
July 12th 10am Summer Pruning Japanese Maples. Dan Gilchrist shows examples and demonstrates
how to prune these beautiful trees to highlight their
natural growth patterns and enhance their graceful
form.
• Saturday
July 19th 10am - Garden Design for Small Spaces
- Urban Gardens, Patios and Balconies The
famed garden design team of Withey and Price share
their experience and design talent. Every inch of a
small garden space is valuable; Glenn and Charles will
show how to select the right plants for maximum value
in confined quarters. Glenn Withey and Charles Price
are garden designers and also Curators of the Dunn
Garden in Seattle.
• Saturday
July 19th - Sunday July 27th - 9am - 6pm daily
Art in the Garden 2008 - Join Pratt Fine Arts Center
and Swansons Nursery as we celebrate summer
in the garden. Stroll through Swansons five acres of
lush park-like displays and enjoy beautiful works of
local hand-blown glass, forged ironwork, and functional
art for your garden.
- All art will be for sale at Swansons Nursery and
will benefit Pratt Fine Arts Center, a nonprofit arts
and education resource center. For more information
about the garden art sale, contact Brandi Clark at
bclark@pratt.org or 206.328.2200 x267
• Saturday,
July 26th, 10 am - Sedum Workshop - plant
an out-door table center or garden feature using the
sculptural beauty of sedum. Swansons Ben Mark will
demonstrate and help you create your own. Tuition is
free, pay for the materials and container you use.
Call 206 782-2543 to reserve your place in this fun
workshop.
• Sunday,
July 27th 3pm Container Design with Glenn Withey
and Charles Price. Planting a container focuses
attention on the plants and their relationship with
each other and their pot, all of which requires skill,
and a strong sense of design. Learn essential points
of design and plant selection from this well respected
team of garden designers, and leave with the confidence
to create your own stunning container. Glenn Withey
and Charles Price are garden designers and also Curators
of the Dunn Garden in Seattle.
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