Home & Garden calendar

This week

Tours and events

UW Center for Urban Horticulture, headquarters for UW Botanic Gardens: 3501 NE 41st St., Seattle; register at 206-543-8616, www.uwbotanicgardens.org.

Audio tours: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the arboretum or 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. from the Center for Urban Horticulture, rent headphones and an MP3 player loaded with audio tour information for $6 plus a $50 damage deposit.

Classes

Arlington Garden Club: “Turn Your Thumb Green” workshops, 10 to 11:30 a.m. second Saturdays, Boys &Girls Club, 18513 59th Ave. NE, Arlington; $3 nonmembers; 360-403-0820, events@arlingtongardenclub.org.

Horticulturist Michelle Clark speaks on “Winter Gardening — Get the Jump on Spring,” Jan. 10.

Edmonds Community College: 20000 68th Ave. W., Lynnwood; 425-640-1739, www.edcc.edu/hort.

Various classes, through March 20; immediate sign-up urged. Topics include “Pacific Northwest Land and Water Issues,” “Restoration Ecology,” “Sustainable Development,” register at 425-640-1549.

Molbak’s: 13625 NE 175th St., Woodinville; 425-483-5000, www.molbaks.com. Classes are free unless otherwise noted.

Clean the air and lift your mood with indoor plants, 11 a.m. to noon Jan. 10.

Hard-to-kill houseplants, 1 to 2 p.m. Jan. 10.

Northwest Perennial Alliance: Bellevue Botanical Garden visitors’ center, 12001 Main St., Bellevue; 425-647-6004, www.n-p-a.org.

Scholarships available for horticulture, landscape design, landscape architecture, botany, environmental science students; Jan. 15 application deadline; 425-647-6004, www.n-p-a.org, e-mail scholarships@northwestperennialalliance.org.

Swansons Nursery: Seminars and classes offered. Registration suggested. 9701 15th Ave. NW, Seattle; 206-782-2543, ext. 235, www.swansonsnursery.com. Classes are free unless otherwise noted.

Urban edible gardening, 11 a.m. to noon Jan. 10.

Indoor container design, 1 to 2 p.m. Jan. 10.

Indoor plants 101, 1 to 2 p.m. Jan. 11.

Ikebana with Megumi Schacher, 10 a.m. to noon Tuesdays; registration required before first class, 425-744-9751; $25 per session.

Plant sales

Swansons Nursery: 9701 15th Ave. NW, Seattle; 206-782-2543, ext. 235, www.swansonsnursery.com.

Indoor plant sale, Jan. 8 through Feb. 1.

Washington Park Arboretum: 2300 Arboretum Drive E., Seattle; 206-325-4510, www.arboretumfoundation.org.

Pat Calvert Greenhouse is selling arboretum collection plants 10 a.m. to noon Tuesdays, year-round.

Coming up

Tours and events

Molbak’s: 13625 NE 175th St., Woodinville; 425-483-5000, www.molbaks.com. Events are free unless otherwise noted.

Panel discussion, 2 to 3:30 p.m. Jan. 17, featuring gardening TV personality Ciscoe Morris, indoor plant buyer Paul Dever and indoor plant specialist Theda Houck; topics include “favorite indoor plants,” “bugs to avoid” and “smart watering techniques.”

Classes

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

Digital photography for gardeners, made easy, 11 a.m. Jan. 17, $5, reservations required.

Northwest Horticultural Society: Receptions are at 6:45 p.m., lectures at 7:15 p.m., $10, $5 members. Classes at NHS Hall, Center for Urban Horticulture, 3501 NE 41st St., Seattle; 206-527-1794, www.northwesthort.org.

Horticulture with humor from Down Under, with Stephen Ryan, Jan. 19.

Northwest Perennial Alliance: Bellevue Botanical Garden visitors’ center, 12001 Main St., Bellevue; 425-647-6004, www.north westperennialalliance.org.

Fall perennial care, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. first Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. second and fourth Sundays, all experience levels welcome; free.

Seattle Garden Club: UW Center for Urban Horticulture, UW Botanical Gardens, P.O. Box 354115, Seattle; 206-325-4510, www.uwbotanicgardens.org.

A lesson in succession planting with Fergus Garrett, 7 p.m. doors, 7:30 p.m. lecture Jan. 15, Seattle Asian Art Museum, 1400 E. Prospect St., Seattle; $10 at door only; 206-329-8669.

Swansons Nursery: Seminars and classes offered. Registration suggested. 9701 15th Ave. NW, Seattle; 206-782-2543, ext. 235, www.swansonsnursery.com. Classes are free unless otherwise noted.

Indoor plants 102, with Brenda Bloomfield, 11 a.m. to noon Jan. 17.