Past Events

  • Summer Plant Party

    ByWhatcom Hort Society

    Sat. July 15 9am-Noon
    Non-members are welcome too – everyone will get a plant!

    Come to socialize and get some new plants for your garden! Are you looking for plants or do you have some that need a new home? Join us on 7/15/17 for a Summer Plant Social. Beverages will be served. New members especially welcome!

    You may drop plants off Friday July 14, or if you prefer, come earlier on Saturday. Please label plants and bring them in plastic pots.

    You do not need to bring plants to come the party.

    Where? 2604 16th Street, Bellingham, 98229 – it’s off Chuckanut Drive near Fairhaven Park.
    Questions? Diana Firestone 360-333-2181 or email diananieman@yahoo.com

  • Connie Sidles: Avian Utopia for Birds – May 18, 2017

    ByWhatcom Hort Society

    Spring Members Lecture
    May 18, 2017 at 7:30pm • Doors Open at 7
    Whatcom Museum ~ 121 Prospect Street, Bellingham
    Members Free, General $12
    Desserts and beverages will be served!

    Join us for a delightful evening with Connie Sidles where you will learn how to enhance your garden to attract a variety of native birds in all seasons. Seattle Master Birder and nature author Connie will show the most common birds that you can attract to your yard and give tips on the native plants, feeders and other enticements you can feature in your landscape. This indoor “field trip” is a perfect way to tune up your garden for the soon-to-be-with-us neotropical migrants and local resident birds who need your help to thrive. Fantasize about how to make your garden part of a wild ecosystem that will give you endless hours of pleasure. Author of four books, Connie will read an excerpt from one of her books about nature and the serenity it grants us. Connie’s books will be for sale at this lecture. Follow Connie online at www.constancypress.com & www.thelaurelhurstblog.blogspot.com.

    Renew your membership online at www.whatcomhortsociety.org or at this lecture.

  • Nita Jo Rountree – Wednesday April 19, 2017

    ByWhatcom Hort Society

    Including Gorgeous Roses in Your Garden

    Wednesday, April 19, 2017
    Whatcom Museum
    121 Prospect Street, Bellingham
    7:30pm • Doors open at 7:00pm
    Tickets at the door: $7 Members • $12 General

    We welcome Nita-Jo Rountree back to Bellingham to tell us about her newly published book, Growing Roses in the Pacic Northwest. In it she shows us how growing the right roses in the right places can greatly enhance your own garden. By using simple principles of garden design, she will illustrate how to successfully use various types of roses in mixed beds as well as in formal designs. Mouth-watering photographic examples are a delight for the senses and are lled with ideas for beautiful companion plants for disease-free roses.

    Nita-Jo is a garden writer, speaker and educator. She currently serves on the board of directors of the Bellevue Botanical Garden Society, is a member of the Heronswood Garden Steering Committee, and serves on the advisory board of the Northwest Horticultural Society, of which she is a former president. Nita-Jo is a frequent speaker at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show and she is a frequent guest and substitute host on TV Show Gardening with Ciscoe. Many of our members were lucky to visit her garden on our summer eld trip in 2015. The lecture will be followed by a book signing.

     

  • Members Only Event: Fall Plant Exchange

    ByWhatcom Hort Society

    Saturday, Oct 1, 9am to Noon
    2604 16th Street, Bellingham

    (Off Chuckanut Drive near Fairhaven Park)

    plantsLast year several of you enjoyed the opportunity to receive and donate new plants for each other. It was a great success, so we are making it an annual event. Come socialize and get some new plants for your garden! Beverages will be served.

    Drop off plants to exchange on Friday Sept 30 and then return on Saturday, Oct 1 to pick new plants. Or, if you prefer, come earlier on Saturday with your plants. Participants must have plants to exchange, please label plants and bring them in plastic pots.

    Questions? Contact Diana Firestone 360-393-4910 • diananieman@yahoo.com

  • Brian Minter “Taking Your Garden to the Next Level”

    ByWhatcom Hort Society

    BrianMinterJoin us at the Fall Members Meeting!

    Tuesday, September 13, 2016
    7:30pm • Doors Open at 7
    Whatcom Museum ~ Old City Hall
    121 Prospect Street, Bellingham
    Members Free, General $12
    Light refreshments will be served

    Join us at the Fall members meeting for an evening with Brian Minter, well-known horticulturalist, columnist and owner of Minter Gardens in Chilliwack, BC.

    In the garden anyone can be an artist without apology or explanation. Too many gardens are a wasted canvas where little thought has been given to the elements of design and creativity. By approaching your garden with the vision and passion of an artist, the ordinary will become the extraordinary, bringing your garden to a new level.

    Brian will inspire you to be a garden artist in this exciting and fast moving session.

  • 30th Annual Tour of Private Gardens

    ByWhatcom Hort Society

    Thanks to everyone who volunteered their time and/or garden to make the 30th Annual Tour of Private Gardens a huge success!

    Sat & Sun July 9-10, 2016
    11am to 5pm

    Six unique and exquisite private gardens:

    • A charming garden with an expansive view
    • A whimsical garden
    • A lush shade garden that welcomes wildlife
    • An artistic garden with a koi pond
    • A functional garden sanctuary designed to protect the watershed
    • A beautiful country garden with perennial beds, horses, chickens and ducks