Are you looking for a speaker for
your garden club or professional organization? I love
talking gardening — send me an e-mail:
marty@martywingate.com.
Small gardens are - still - in, and on Saturday, April
17 at 10:30- noon, I'll talk about the small spaces on
decks and patios at the
Bellevue Demonstration Garden.
It's free!
On Saturday, April 24, it's All About Perennials at
McComb Gardens in Sequim. Enjoy a day on the sunny
Olympic Peninsula at this free seminar - and enjoy the
nursery, too.
Let me give you personal plant-selection tips at the
Arboretum Foundation's Florabundance member pre-sale and party on Friday, April 23, 5:30-8:30. Tickets are $20 and include wine and finger foods.
For the MG plant sale bit, please add: Here's another chance to drink wine and buy plants - the
preview party Friday, April 30, 5:30-7:30.
This spring I'll also be speaking to the Trilogy Garden Club and attending the
Seattle Children's Playgarden auction. Find out how you can help build a garden for all!
The Master Gardener Foundation of King County holds its
fabulous plant sale on May 1 and 2. I'll be there
Saturday, May 1 to talk about small-space gardening and
the great things you can do. More details to come.
When Marty met Sally.
Photo courtesy of Fran
Durner, senior photographer at the Anchorage Daily News, whose
garden blog is
Talk Dirt to Me.
Sally Field – Gardener and Actress
I had great fun interviewing Sally Field about her
love of gardening (the article appeared in the P-I Feb.
14;
read it here), and if that wasn’t enough, I got to
appear on stage with her at the Northwest Flower &
Garden Show, Feb. 23, where we talked about Gardening
for Good Health.
Sally gardens in the Malibu hills of Southern
California, a much tougher place than Seattle, but we
share some of the same fondness for plants, such as
Ceanothus and California poppies. I passed along a book
recommendation (Designing With Succulents, Debra Lee
Baldwin, Timber Press, 2007) and the name of a great
mail-order nursery —
Annie’s Annuals.
More Links
Bellevue Botanical Garden
Inland Empire Garden Club
Northwest Horticultural Society
Garden Writers
