Home and Garden calendar for Snohomish County and beyond
Published 1:30 am Saturday, September 2, 2017
Wildflower talk: Snohomish Garden Club meeting, 7 p.m. Sept. 11, Snohomish Senior Center, 506 Fourth St. Susie Egan will speak on her wildflower pilgrimage experience in the Great Smoky Mountains. Free. More at www.snohomishgardenclub .com.
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. There are four award categories: 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.
Historic Everett Home Tour: Historic Everett needs volunteers for its upcoming home tour Sept. 16. Call 425-293-2767 or email historiceverett@gmail.com if you can help. The annual tour features several historic Everett homes. For more information, go to www.historiceverett.org.
Zoo Doo: Woodland Park Zoo’s Fecal Fest is an online opportunity for gardeners to purchase Zoo Doo, an exotic, highly coveted compost, and Bedspread, a composted mulch. Due to the high demand, gardening fans must enter a lottery online now through Sept. 10. Entries will be randomly selected according to supply and demand. Pickup dates are Sept. 23 through Oct. 14. More at www.zoo.org/fecalfest.
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.
Aboretum 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.
Camano Wildlife Habitat Project: Sponsored by Friends of Camano Island Parks, the group hosts public presentations the third Wednesday of the month at Camano Multipurpose Center, 141 N. East Camano Drive, Camano Island. More information at www.camanowildlifehabitat.org, camanowildlifehabitat@gmail.com or 360-387-2236.
To submit calendar items, contact Andrea Brown at 425-339-3443 or abrown@heraldnet.com.
