Garden variety
Go green: The master gardener program is accepting applications for 2017 training. Classes start in January. Training focuses on learning how to use resources to research, educate, mentor and answer horticulture questions for the general 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 once a week on Thursdays, from Jan. 12 through March 30. Tuition is $275 plus a volunteer commitment of 40 hours each year for two years with other volunteers on a variety of horticultural and environmental educational projects. Without the volunteer commitment, tuition is $775. For more information and an application, go to http://extension.wsu.edu/snohomish and look under “Calendar” or call the Extension Office at 425-338-2400.
Camano Garden Club: Garden visit Aug. 18 to the home of Cathy Mathes, gourmet chef and a gardener. She will give a tour of her acreage and out buildings that she and her husband have developed with tender care. Contact Phyllis Andrew@pahio90@wavecable.com.
Grand opening: Northwest Perennial Alliance’s new propagation working exhibit, 10 a.m. to noon Aug. 20, Bellevue Botanical Garden, 12001 Main St., Bellevue. More at 425-647-6004 or info@northwestperennialalliance.org.
Green Everett volunteer work party: Help Green Everett Partnership protect urban forests. No experience necessary and tools are provided. For more information or to RSVP, contactgreeneverett@forterra.org or call 425-238-0065. Dates are: Thornton A. Sullivan, Aug. 20; Forest Park. Sept. 3; Thornton A. Sullivan, Sept. 17; and Howarth Park, Oct. 15.
Plant protection: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 30, Stillwater Wildlife Area, Carnation. Join Sound Salmon Solutions to help put plant protectors around the 2,200 native trees and shrubs planted this spring to shade salmon bearing Harris Creek that flows into the Snoqualmie River. RSVP to kyla@soundsalmonsolutions.org or call 425-252-6686.
Shows and exhibits
Everett Dahlia Show: 1 to 6 p.m. Aug. 20, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Aug. 21 at Floral Hall at Forest Park, 802 E. Mukilteo Blvd., Everett; free; www.scdahlias.org.
Arlington Garden Club: Plant sale 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 27 at Arlington Farmers Market. Perennials for sun and shade, $1, $2 and $5. The garden club cookbook will be for sale as well as raffle tickets for a quilt and a garden sculpture.
Winged beauties: Woodland Park Zoo’s Molbak’s Butterfly Garden, Woodland Park Zoo; 5500 Phinney Ave. N. Seattle; www.zoo.org. Take a walk through the gardens and engage with butterflies. The zoo’s newest exhibit emphasizes both the fragility and resilience of nature through the display of butterflies and flowers. A tent structure encloses a landscape of 3,000 square feet with 500 free-flying butterflies representing at least 15 species native to North America.
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