Saturday is a big day for home and garden events in and around Snohomish County.
There’s the Lavender Hills Farm Festival in Marysville, the Camano Island Home Tour, the Woodinville Tour of Gardens, the kickoff for the monthlong Street of Dreams south of Monroe and a new Wild Horse Garden Tour north of Monroe focusing on town-home gardens. And that’s not to mention the inaugural Mukilteo Garden and Quilt Tour featured in this issue.
Be sure, however, not to wear yourself out completely.
Because the next day, Sunday, is the Snohomish Garden Club’s annual garden tour, an event many local gardening enthusiasts won’t want to miss.
It’s a tour that usually doesn’t come around until late July. But to better coincide with other Snohomish events, it was scheduled two weeks earlier, said club member Rebecca Loveless.
Though the tour is now in its 23rd year, club members are still finding gardens more than worthy of a day of exploration, said club member Darlene Huntington.
This year’s selections include four “in city” gardens in the heart of Snohomish and four “out of city,” or rural Snohomish gardens, for a variety of garden sizes and styles.
“They’re all nice and they’re all very different. It’s hard to pick a favorite,” Huntington said. “The gardens that are out in the country are quite spectacular.”
Two of the gardens have Woodinville addresses, including the garden of Jerry and Dorothy Stansberry, which will be on the Woodinville Tour of Gardens Saturday as well.
“It’s a fabulous garden,” Huntington said. “It’s a big country garden. It has a beautiful, big pond.”
Loveless said she is particularly fond of the woodland vignettes at the garden of Martha Perry and Art Mafli in rural Snohomish.
“It’s very naturalistic,” she said. “It has trails out through the woods and a lot of foliage plants and a beautiful vegetable garden.”
Gardeners definitely won’t be disappointed by the in-city gardens either, Huntington said, particularly at the home of Craig and Terry Sanderson, where plants surround an 1888 home.
“Terry is a transplanted English lady,” Huntington said. “Her garden is kind of English in nature and it’s also very beautiful. She is very fond of doing container gardening. She has a darling greenhouse.”
Reporter Sarah Jackson: 425-339-3037 or sjackson@heraldnet.com.
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