Home & Garden calendar
Published 7:19 pm Wednesday, January 13, 2010
This week
Classes
Christianson’s Nursery and Greenhouse: 15806 Best Road, Mount Vernon; 360-466-3821; www.christiansonsnursery.com. Classes are free unless otherwise noted.
The color of winter, 11 a.m. Jan. 16; $5, make reservations at 360-466-3821.
Distinctive Interior Designs: Events at various locations; 425-238-3678; www.distinctiveinteriordesigns.net. Register and attend classes at Lake Stevens School District Educational Service Center, 12309 22nd St. NE, 425-335-1500; www.lkstevens.wednet.edu; or Marysville Library, 6120 Grove St., 360-363-8400; www.marysvillewa.gov, as noted.
Purge the paper, conquer the piles, create files, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Jan. 19, Lake Stevens; $20.
Plant sales
Washington Park Arboretum: 2300 Arboretum Drive E., Seattle; 206-325-4510; www.arboretumfoundation.org;http://www.arboretumÃ&frac18. Pat Calvert Greenhouse sells arboretum collection plants 10 a.m. to noon Tuesdays.
Coming up
Tours and events
Buses to Northwest Flower &Garden Show: Depart at 8:30 a.m. from Christianson’s Nursery, 15806 Best Road, Mount Vernon, and return by 6 p.m., Feb. 3 through 6. Tickets, which include show admission, are $49 for Feb. 3 through 5; $59 for Feb. 6 (party bus). The show is at the Washington State Convention &Trade Center in Seattle. Make bus reservations at 360-466-3821 and get details at www.christiansonsnursery.com.
Tacoma Home &Garden Show: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Jan. 27 and 28, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Jan. 29 and 30, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jan. 31, Tacoma Dome, 2727 E. D St., Tacoma; $8 to $16; 253-756-2121; www.otshows.com.
Classes
American Rhododendron Society, Komo Kulshan chapter: Burlington Community Center, 1011 Greenleaf St., Burlington; 360-856-2410; www.flounder.ca/komokulshan/index.asp. 7:30 p.m. Jan. 21, Wild Flowers of Sachuan; free.
Christianson’s Nursery and Greenhouse: 15806 Best Road, Mount Vernon; 360-466-3821; www.christiansonsnursery.com. Classes are free unless otherwise noted.
Growing Tea in the Skagit Valley, 11 a.m. Jan. 23; $5, make reservations at 360-466-3821.
Distinctive Interior Designs: Events at various locations; 425-238-3678; www.distinctiveinteriordesigns.net. Register and attend classes at Lake Stevens School District Educational Service Center, 12309 22nd St. NE, 425-335-1500; www.lkstevens.wednet.edu; or Marysville Library, 6120 Grove St., 360-363-8400; www.marysvillewa.gov, as noted.
Organize your life through goals and time management, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Jan. 23, Marysville; $20.
The Open Gate Farm: 269 Russell Road, Camano Island; 360-387-4449.
The Honorable Farmer classes, 1 to 4 p.m. fourth Wednesdays, January through June; $120 for series (some $30-or-less material fees may apply), Jan. 22 registration deadline, classes suitable for ages 6 to adult; sign up at 360-387-4449. Topics include business side of farming; soils, seeds, plants; choosing what to grow; tools; tillage; orchards, nurseries, animal farms; harvesting, storage and marketing.
WSU Skagit County Extension: 11768 Westar Lane, Suite A, Burlington; 360-428-4270, ext. 240; www.skagit.wsu.edu.
Country Living Expo and Cattlemen’s Winterschool, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jan. 30, Stanwood High School, 7400 272nd St. NW, Stanwood; topics include fruit tree maintenance, giant pumpkin and vegetable growing, greenhouse building, raising and processing pastured poultry, specialty canning, cider making, spinning, weaving and others; registration $55; register at 360-428-4270, ext. 0.
master gardener CLINICs
WSU Snohomish County Extension: McCollum Park, 600 128th St. SE, Everett; 425-338-2400, ext. 5500; www.snohomish.wsu.edu.
Master gardener Sustainable Gardening lecture series: 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Fridays, Mukilteo Presbyterian Church social hall, 4515 84th St. SW, Mukilteo; $85 for whole series, write check to SCMGF (Snohomish County Master Gardener Foundation). No reservations for individual dates, but $20 payable at door if seats remain for any given date; 425-338-2400; www.snohomish.wsu.edu. Jan. 22, Russell Link, Gardening on the Wing — Bats, Bees, Birds and Butterflies.
