Find fuchsias at local club’s sale in Bothell

Published 2:25 pm Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Fun with fuchsias: The Sno-King Fuchsia Society’s annual plant sale will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 24 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 25 at the Country Village Shopping Center, 23720 Bothell-Everett Highway, Bothell.

Club members will sell a wide variety of hardy fuchsias, fuchsias for baskets, shrubs, geraniums, annuals, perennials, vegetable starts, planter boxes and pots.

Call Sally Williams at 206-365-6887 or see www.nwfuchsiasociety.com for more information.

Birthday party: Art Kruckeberg, founder of the Kruckeberg Botanic Garden of Shoreline, will celebrate his 90th birthday with a fundraising party from 6 to 8 tonight at Shoreline City Hall, 17500 Midvale Ave. N.

Kruckeberg, an author and University of Washington botany professor, started his garden in 1958 with his wife, Mareen, who died in 2003.

The Kruckebergs focused on native and rare plants. In 2008, he sold the 4-acre garden to the city of Shoreline and it’s now maintained by the city parks department.

Tickets to the party are $90. See www.kruckeberg.org for tickets and information about tour hours.

See www.msknursery.com for more information.

Sarah Jackson: 425-339-3037, sjackson@heraldnet.com.