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.
Big small talk: “Small is the New Big: 3 Big Rules (&4 small ones) for Designing Gardens” by Lorene Edwards Forkner, editor of Pacific Horticulture Magazine, 10 a.m. to noon Sept. 16, Edmonds Theatre, 415 Main St. Tickets are $10 at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3064108. More at countryplace13@yahoo.com. Learn about creating small gardens with big impact. All proceeds to benefit the Arboretum Foundation. More at www.arboretumfoundation.org.
Snohomish Historical Society Home Tour: A self-guided tour of historic homes around Snohomish, noon to 5 p.m. Sept. 17. Tickets are $15 or $12 for seniors and children. Each ticket includes a tour map with directions to each showcased home. Tickets are available at McDaniel’s Do It Center, Joyworks and Annie’s On First in advance and at the Waltz Building the day of the tour. Call 360-568-5235 or go to www.snohomishhistoricalsociety.org for more.
Historic Everett Home Tour: Historic Everett needs volunteers for its annual home tour from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Sept. 23. 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.
30 years: Snohomish County Master Gardener Foundation is celebrating its 30th anniversary noon to 1 p.m. Sept. 19, McCollum Park, 600 128th St. SE, Everett. There will be light refreshments. The foundation sponsors more than 150 store-based clinics a year to promote environment stewardship and also additional volunteer hours working in our demonstration gardens, growing food for foodbanks and providing educational activities for all age groups. More at www.snomgf.org.
Pollinator power: Learn the roles pollinators play in the home garden, how to attract beneficial insects bees and when and how to use pollinator-friendly gardening practices, 7 p.m. Sept. 20, at the Island County Multipurpose Center, 141 N. East Camano Drive. Talk by Holli Watne, volunteer with the Skagit Conservation District and an amateur entomologist. The Camano Wildlife Habitat Project, sponsored by Friends of Camano Island Parks, hosts public presentations the third Wednesday of the month.More information at www.camanowildlifehabitat.org, camanowildlifehabitat@gmail.com or 360-387-2236.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To submit calendar items, contact Andrea Brown at 425-339-3443 or abrown@heraldnet.com.
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