Fall Plant Sale Speakers
CELEBRITY GARDEN SPEAKERSSpecial celebrity speakers during this event included local celebrity gardeners and educators Ciscoe Morris, Nita-Jo Rountree and Christina Pfeiffer.
The exceedingly hot early June temperatures left its ugly mark on many plants and left many gardeners wondering about pruning their trees and shrubs. This talk will review best practices for pruning heat damaged plants and important care practices going into the fall season.
We choose plants for winter wet, then comes drought; we plant for cold weather then comes 108 degrees! We plant for shade, then a tree comes down. What’s a gardener to do? Come hear Ciscoe and Nita-Jo talk (and sometimes argue) about their favorite plants for a variety of conditions. COVID-19 PROTOCOL: All registrants who attended the speaker events inside Aaron Hall Education Center had to be vaccinated and were required to wear a mask at all times.
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Popular Books from our Speakers!
Master Gardener Alum Pat Roome had her recent books for sale. |
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![]() GUIDED TALKS THROUGHOUT THE GARDENWe hosted guided talks throughout the garden, focusing on the unique areas that are individually maintained by the Bellevue Botanical Garden Partners. |
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Washington Native Plant Society‘s Native Discovery GardenStewards, Janka Hobbs and Franja Bryant. Get an insider’s view of the successes and challenges involved in garden renovation. Learn too about the value of plant diversity in an ecosystem and the ways in which plants native to an area provide habitat for local birds and the insects on which many birds and amphibians depend. There are ways you can help create a sustainable haven for these plants and creatures. We’ll discuss the hows and whys of that, and we’ll demonstrate how to make a wattle fence that will fit naturally into a garden.
Franja Bryant is a Native Plant Steward for the Washington Native Plant Society. She is Education Chair for the Central Puget Sound Chapter of WNPS and has been an active volunteer in helping to plan and maintain the new Native Discovery Garden at the Bellevue Botanical Garden.
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Eastside Fuchsia Society‘s alluring Fuchsia BorderCaroline Zebroski will walk you through the Fuchsia Border. She will be identifying fuchsias, talking about their growth, proper care, and do a short hands-on lesson about fuchsia propagation.
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Northwest Perennial Alliance‘s Perennial Border
Cleo Raulerson has gardened, focusing on perennials and flowering shrubs, for more than 40 years. Her garden has over 750 varieties of flowering plants, and the garden has been on the NPA (Northwest Perennial Alliance) Open Garden Tour for 7 years. Cleo is Co-president of the Bellevue Botanical Garden Society Board of Directors, Co-Chair of Garden d’Lights, and is a King County Master Gardener.
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Puget Sound Dahlia Association‘s Dahlia DisplayThe Puget Sound Dalia Association is dedicated to growing, hybridizing, exhibiting, and conducting research on dahlias in the Northwest region of the United States. Mark Lyke will walk you through the garden and talk about dahlia care, dahlia propagation, and dahlia varieties. Mark Lyke is an active master gardener who has been growing dahlias for decades. He has worked as a horticultural manager for Lakewold Gardens in Lakewood, WA, and was on the board of the Northwest Horticultural Society for two terms.
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![]() A Walking Tour of Garden DesignWalk through the garden with Laura Watson. You will start at the Gathering Place at the front entrance and stroll along the perennial border, then make your way into the Yao Garden to look at garden design, garden texture, and how to use layering and vines to create stunning garden architecture. Vine expert Laura Watson has been growing clematis and other vines, as well as great understory trees for the Pacific Northwest, for years and enjoys sharing her every-increasing horticultural knowledge with others. She is proud to be a King County Master Gardener, a PlantAmnesty Master Pruner, and a Council Member for the International Clematis Society. Laura has published articles in Clematis International and the PlantAmnesty Newsletter as well as in her blog, Clematisinseattle.com.
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The plant sale, guided talks and planned speakers were open to the public. |