COMING Soon in Your Mailbox!Join us on this year’s field trip to gardens in Mill Creek, the Gardens of Anderson School tour with Riz Reyes, Molback’s and more. Look for a mailer with registration info coming next week. Online registration and information will be posted next week on our website.
This film is sponsored by the Whatcom Horticultural Society, and is an award winning documentary that showcases the creative genius of Piet Oudolf. “The film poetically reveals how Oudolf upends conventional notions of nature, public space, and, ultimately, beauty itself.”
Reception is at 6:15pm, film starts at 6:30pm. Click here for list of plants featured in this film.
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Small Plants for the Overstuffed GardenSpring Lecture Series
Wednesday May 17, 2018
Whatcom Museum
121 Prospect Street, Bellingham
7:30pm • Doors open at 7:00pm
Tickets at the door: $7 Members • $12 General
Do you think you’ve run out of space in your garden? Then this is the lecture for you! Joseph Tychonievich will talk to us about unusual, tiny plants that can’t fit into your garden. A life-long gardener and lover of plants, Joseph has worked for nurseries in the US and Japan, has been a repeated guest on public radio’s food show “The Splendid Table”, and was named by Organic Gardening Magazine as one of “…six young horticulturists who are helping to shape how America gardens.” Joseph is the author of Plant Breeding for the Home Gardener, The Complete Guide to Gardeners, and Rock Gardening: Reimagining a Classic Style, and is editor of the North American Rock Garden Society Quarterly. Joseph lives and gardens in Michigan.
Getting High in Vietnam’s Northern MountainsSpring Lecture Series
Wednesday May 23, 2018
Squalicum Boat House
2600 Harbor Loop, Bellingham
7:30pm • Doors open at 7:00pm
Tickets at the door: $7 Members • $12 General
Sue and Kelly of Far Reaches Farm in Port Townsend are coming back to Bellingham and they are bringing plants! We will hear about their recent expedition to northern Vietnam last fall in search of new plants. This area is one of the world’s hot spots of biodiversity. Surprisingly many plants from this region have a long memory harkening back to colder times and are proving more hardy than common sense would suggest. And yes, some of these plant are hardy in Bellingham!
Make Like Monet – But Keep it SimpleSpring Lecture Series Opener
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Whatcom Museum
121 Prospect Street, Bellingham
7:30pm • Doors open at 7:00pm
Tickets at the door: $7 Members • $12 General
Northwest horticultural expert and TV host Marianne Binetti joins us to open our spring lecture series. In this talk we will look at gardens through an artist’s eye and how to create them by painting with owers. Marianne will use examples from the gardens of artists and show us how to adapt them to our own yards. The talk includes not just images from her recent trip to Monet’s garden but ideas from many English gardens. To keep the owers growing in the summer heat, included are water-saving garden ideas from Spain and Portugal. Garden columnist and owner of a landscape design business, Marianne has been searching for the perfect plant–impossible to kill, but always in full bloom. It’s something most gardeners are probably looking for, not to mention an honest request coming from the author of over 10 gardening books including Easy Answers for Great Gardens and her latest book Vegetable Gardening for Washington and Oregon. Marianne is a regular guest and garden expert for HGTV and has a local show “Dig in Seattle”. In addition to lecturing, Marianne leads travel groups to visit beautiful gardens all over the world. She and her husband Joe garden on two acres near Enumclaw, Washington.
Thursday, Nov 16 2017, 7:30pm • Doors Open at 7 • Squalicum Boathouse, 2600 S Harbor Loop Dr, Bellingham
There will be delightful desserts and beverages at this free member’s event!
There will be plants for sale too!
Join us for a presentation with John Christianson, who loves to share his knowledge about the many wonderful plants for the fall and winter garden. John started working in the horticulture profession as a teenager, then went on to manage Molbak’s Nursery in Woodinville from 1983-1990 – the largest nursery in the U.S. at that time. John’s enthusiam for conveying his garden knowledge led him to volunteer as a Master Gardener and also as a guide at the University of Washington Arboretum. He has a degree in Ornamental Horticulture, and interned in Nursery Management in Buckinghamshire, England. John Christianson and his wife Toni have owned Christianson’s Nursery and Greenhouse, a 7 acre jewel in the Skagit Valley, since 1990. Over the years they have won numerous awards for display gardens at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show. Last year they received the Best Plant Market Overall Award from the 2017 NW Flower & Garden Show.
Listen to John’s weekly radio broadcast at 10:30am Sunday mornings (AM 660 KAPS or FM 102.1 KAPS). The show is also streamed on Stream Tracks and SoundCloud. Have a question for John?..check out the “Ask John!” column on Christianson’s website.
Thursday, Oct 19 2017, 7:30pm • Doors Open at 7 • Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect St
The best part of the gardening years begins as the asters are fading. The onset of winter signals the start of a season filled with berried branches and seductive silhouettes. This lecture focuses on the unique challenges of creating lots of interest with both living and built elements and presents a variety of approaches to add texture, color, and fragrance to the unsung season.
C. Colston Burrell is an acclaimed lecturer, garden designer, award-winning author and photographer. A certified chlorophyll addict, Cole is an avid and lifelong plantsman, gardener and naturalist. He has shared his encyclopedic knowledge of plants and his abiding respect for regional landscapes for over 40 years. Cole has devoted a lifetime to studying native plants in the wild and in gardens. His firm, Native Landscape Design and Restoration, specializes in blending nature and culture through artistic design. Author of many garden books and contributing editor for Horticulture, he frequently writes for Landscape Architecture and American Gardener. Cole also offers one of a kind tours to exceptional gardens and natural areas around the globe.
Wed Sept 27, 2017 • 7:30pm • Doors Open at 7 • Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect St
Join us at our Fall Lecture Series opener to view the stunning garden photographs taken by David Perry as he demonstrates the amazing potential that smart phone cameras offer. The cameras within smart phones are miniature wonders, nearly always within our reach and capable of making magical photographs that can be enhanced and immediately shared through email, tweets, and text messages or posted on social pages.
David Perry is an inspirational, Seattle-based author/photographer. His reverence for gardens, flowers and the gardeners who tend them is apparent in the pictures he takes and in his playful, sometimes irreverent manner when speaking about them. “With a teacher’s heart and an artist’s eye David will take an audience to a new level in how to approach photography.” His work has been featured on the cover of Fine Gardening as well as in Sunset, Garden Design, and Pacific Horticulture. David is the co-creator of The 50 Mile Bouquet and his latest book, Your Garden Can Make a Difference, should be released next spring. Enjoy his blog at davidperryphoto.myportfolio.com
We’re very sorry but the trip is full. Please put your contact information on our waiting list as space often opens up. Send your name, phone number and email address to info@whatcomhortsociety.org and you will be contacted.
$63 includes bus transportation and all snacks/beverages. Optional box lunch is $17. Space is limited, reservations are made in the order they are received. Payment must be included with reservation and you must be a current member. To renew or join click here.
7am coffee, tea, fruit and baked goods; begin to load bus at Civic Field, park near entrance. 7:20am depart for day. We will tour three showcase gardens near Langley: the Farmhouse Garden overlooking Useless Bay, created with love and whimsy by Gary and Janie Gabelein; the Gardens of HalyRune (the Spirit’s Whisper) created by Susan and Kevin Sandri overlooking Saratoga Pass; and the Asian inspired garden of Tom and artist Sharon Vos. We’ll also visit Island Art Glass garden and showroom, home of artists Robert Adamson and Janis Swalwell, award winning Bayview Farm and Garden, and Venture Out Nursery. Many, many thanks to our field trip committee for putting together this excellent trip! More info at www.whatcomhortsociety.org
Oven Roasted Turkey Sandwich with herbed cream cheese, cranberries, lettuce, tomato & onion on sourdough; Roast Beef Sandwich with havarti, lettuce, tomato & onion on sourdough; Ham Sandwich with swiss cheese, lettuce, tomato & onion on Caraway Rye; Chicken Caesar Wrap with crispy chicken, romaine, parmesan cheese & Caesar dressing in a spinach tortilla; Chicken Bacon Ranch Wrap with crispy chicken, bacon, tomato, cheddar, romaine & ranch dressing in a spinach tortilla; Grilled Chicken Club Salad with tomatoes, cheddar, bacon, ranch dressing & homemade croutons; Veggie Wrap with spinach, tomato, cucumbers, peppers, cheddar & hummus in a spinach tortilla; Mixed Green Salad with seasonal greens, vegetables & balsamic vinaigrette (gluten and dairy free). All options include a fresh baked cookie, bottled pop or water, chips & a piece of fresh fruit.