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<< Previous   of   Next >>   ADVERTISEMENT   CONTACT THE HERALD Melanie Munk, Features Editor munk@heraldnet.com   Published: Thursday, February 28, 2008 The buzz: Local winners at Northwest Flower & Garden Show And the winners are...: A relaxed sunny garden with a Swedish summer cottage called a "sommarstuga" won the Best in Show award at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show last week in Seattle. The Washington State Nursery and Landscape Association created "Sommarstuga," which includes sustainable gardening features such as a slow delivery irrigation system and low-water-use plants. Judges awarded all 26 display gardens one of four designations: gold, silver, bronze or crystal. Local gold winners included "Tequila Sunrise" created by B. Bissell General Contractors in Snohomish, and "Dreams Really Can Come True" designed by Rick Perry at Falling Water Designs of Monroe. The Falling Water Designs garden also won the American Horticultural Society Environment Award. "Crush," designed by Timothy Gray and Lloyd Glasscock at Everett's Pacific Stone Co., took the People's Choice award. "Tranquility in the Wilderness," a display garden with a waterfall and a profusion of specimen, ornamental and native plants won the Garden Creator's award. The garden was created by Woodinville company Kinssies Landscaping. Emery's Garden in Lynnwood won Most Original in the Container Design contest. A rain-friendly garden: Learn to design a rain garden at a free class from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. March 12 at the Lake Forest Park Towne Center on Bothell Way in Lake Forest Park. A rain garden acts like a native forest by collecting, absorbing and filtering storm water runoff. Plus it makes a snazzy garden. Seattle Public Utilities Resource Conservation Planner David McDonald is leading the workshop sponsored in part by the Washington State University King County Extension. The class is free and the organizers would prefer you register in advance by calling 206-205-3130. One for the bookshelf: Garden writer Barbara Damrosch has finally updated her bestseller "The Garden Primer" two decades after the first. The result is a garden resource worth the $18.95 retail price -- that is, if your bookshelf isn't already groaning with a good, all-purpose, what-to-do-in-the-garden book. The first part of the book covers soils, tools, landscaping planning and purchasing plants. The last 14 chapters are arranged by plant category such as perennials, fruit, ground covers, lawns, shrubs. After giving a primer on how and where and why to grow each, she lists some of the best plants in each category. Herald staff and news services

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