Seattle Home Show 2: The fall version of the oldest and largest home show in the nation is Oct. 6-8 at CenturyLink Field Event Center, 800 Occidental Ave. S, Seattle. See examples of game rooms, “she sheds,” solar energy, clean design, spas and barbecues. Attend home improvement seminars on a variety of topics. There is also a holiday cooking competition featuring Big Green Egg outdoor grills. Admission is $13. More at www.seattlehomeshow.com.
Fall workshop: Evergreen District Garden Clubs 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 12, Rosehill Community Center, 304 Lincoln Ave., Mukilteo. The workshop will include a class by nature photographer Tim Boyer on how to photograph your garden and flowers, a presentation by Trevor Cameron from Sunnyside Nursery on “The Bones of the Garden” (the winter garden) and an interactive design program by floral designers, Keith Ripley, Lary Spiller and Joe Dahlbom. Tickets are $22 in advance, $25 at the door. For more information, call 425-512-5345 or email waller1397@comcast.net.
Monte Cristo Awards: Get inspired, cheer on your neighbors and enjoy an evening of neighborhood and city pride Oct. 12 at the Everett Performing Arts Center, 2710 Wetmore Ave. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for light refreshments and live music. The ceremony starts at 7. Free. Award categories are Green Gardening, for homeowners who have implemented natural or green gardening practices; Neighborhood Friendly Business, for overall visual quality from the street view; Pride of the Neighborhood, for homes and yards that consistently look their best; and Rejuvenation and Transformation, for residential properties that have been transformed by the owners to be a visual asset. The Marian Krell Award honors a prior Monte Cristo award recipient who has excelled in the maintenance of their property over several years’ time. More at https://everettwa.gov/340/Monte-Cristo-Awards.
Get mushy: Snohomish County Mycological Society’s annual wild mushroom show is 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 15, Floral Hall in Forest Park, 802 E. Mukilteo Blvd., Everett. Hosted with Everett Parks and Recreation, the show features mushroom displays, kits, books and videos. Learn to distinguish more than 100 different species of wild mushrooms. Bring your own mushroom samples for identification. Class on mushroom identification is at 1 p.m. The event is free, with donations accepted. More at www.scmsfungi.org.
Fun with fungi: Learn which common mushrooms are edible, which ones to avoid and how fungi interact with your trees and plants, 7 p.m. Oct. 18, at the Island County Multipurpose Center, 141 N. East Camano Drive. Talk by Scott Chase, Island County Shore Stewards coordinator and South Camano resident. The Camano Wildlife Habitat Project, sponsored by Friends of Camano Island Parks, hosts presentations the third Wednesday of the month. More information at www.camanowildlifehabitat.org, camanowildlifehabitat@gmail.com or 360-387-2236.
Proper pruning: Northwest Perennial Alliance talk “How to Successfully Prune Any Shrub” with Bess Bronstein, 1 p.m. Oct. 15, Center for Urban Horticulture, 3501 NE 41st St., Seattle. Doors open at 12 noon for plant sale. More at http://northwesterennialalliance.org.
Harvest Fest: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 21, Sky Nursery, 18528 Aurora Ave. N., Shoreline. More at http://northwestperennialalliance.org.
Everett Fall Home Show: Oct. 27, 28 and 29, Xfinity Arena, Everett. Hours are noon to 7 p.m. Oct. 27, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 28 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 29. More at www.everettgiftshow.com.
Become a master: Master gardener training classes start in January. Research, educate, mentor and answer horticulture questions for the public in a collaborative environment. All training is open book and no memorization is expected. Training involves about 80 hours of classroom and workshop instruction held once a week on Thursdays, Jan. 11 through March 29. Tuition is $275, plus a volunteer commitment of 40 hours each year for two years on a variety of horticultural and environmental educational projects. Without the volunteer commitment, tuition is $775. More at http://tinyurl.com/y8srkp2y or 425-338-2400.
Arboretum is back: After a two-year closure, the Master Gardener Perennial Border in Evergreen Arboretum & Gardens at Legion Memorial Park is once again in bloom and open to the public. It was closed two years ago as part of the North Everett arsenic mitigation project, which required the replacement of all topsoil in the border and the destruction of all plants grown in the contaminated soil. More at www.evergreen arboretum.com.
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