Home & garden calendar

This week

Tours and events

Northwest Flower &Garden Show: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3 through 7, Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seventh and Pike, Seattle; $5 to $20, free ages 12 and under; 253-756-2121; www.gardenshow.com.

Tacoma Home &Garden Show: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 28 through 31, Tacoma Dome, 2727 E. D St., Tacoma; $8 to $16; 253-756-2121; www.otshows.com.

Classes

Christianson’s Nursery and Greenhouse: 15806 Best Road, Mount Vernon; 360-466-3821; www.christiansonsnursery.com. Classes are free unless otherwise noted.

Dormant pruning, 11 a.m. Jan. 30; $5, make reservations at 360-466-3821.

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.

Plant sales

Washington Park Arboretum: 2300 Arboretum Drive E., Seattle; 206-325-4510; www.arboretumfoundation.org;http://www.arboretumÃ⅛ƒâ€šÃ&frac18. Pat Calvert Greenhouse sells arboretum collection plants 10 a.m. to noon Tuesdays.

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; no reservations for individual dates, but $20 payable at door if open seats remain; 425-338-2400; www.snohomish.wsu.edu. Feb. 5, Pat Carey, “Green Roof — beyond storm water.”

Coming up

Classes

Everett Public Library: Main branch, 2702 Hoyt Ave., Everett; 425-257-8000; www.epls.org.

Keeping hens in your backyard, 2 p.m. Feb. 7; free.

Seattle Tilth: Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle; 206-633-0451; www.seattletilth.org.

Beekeeping 101, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Feb. 9, Good Shepherd Center, Room 140; $18 Seattle Tilth members, $25 nonmembers; registration and advance payment required at www.seattletilth.org.

Growing perennial edibles, 6 to 8 p.m. Feb. 10, Bradner Gardens Park, 1733 Bradner Place S., Seattle; $25 for Seattle Tilth members, $35 nonmembers; registration and advance payment required at www.seattletilth.org.

Wight’s Home &Garden: 5026 196th St. SW, Lynnwood; 425-775-3636; www.wights.com. All classes are free.

Pruning and dormant spraying 101, 7 p.m. Feb. 4, Lynnwood Library, 19200 44th Ave. W., Lynnwood.

WSU Snohomish County Extension Beach Watchers: Lower level, Rosehill Community Center, 304 Lincoln Ave., Mukilteo; 425-357-6020; www.beachwatchers.wsu.edu. 7 p.m. Feb. 10, “Underwater Neighborhood Tour” with John Williams; free.