We hope to see you at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show February 8 – 12, 2012.
You can see our previous booths on our Flower and Garden show pages.
David Selk
Horticulture with the Animals
Monday March 19th, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
NHS Hall Section A, Center for Urban Horticulture, 3501 NE 41st St. Seattle, WA 98105 Map
This presentation will discuss the role of horticulture in a zoological setting. To accomplish this, a brief history of horticulture at Woodland Park Zoo will be described followed by an explanation of habitat immersion and its role in modern zoo exhibitry. This will set the foundation for a discussion of how the design of a zoological exhibit is approached from a botanical viewpoint, how plant choices are made, and what role the landscape plays in animal health, animal enrichment, the visitor experience, and education. The 100% organic rose garden and the role of pesticides in such a public setting will be touched on. Finally there will be a discussion about the challenges and rewards of maintaining a year round landscape exposed to more than a million visitors a year.
Coming soon, our spring plant sale.
We will update this page with location and the plant list.
Sharon Collman
Plants and their Partners: Pollinators, Predators and Parasitoids
Monday, May 21st, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
NHS Hall Section A, Center for Urban Horticulture, 3501 NE 41st St. Seattle, WA 98105 Map
Sharon Collman in her garden
To ensure their survival, plants have developed ingenious ways to attract and feed insects so they become unwitting carriers of pollen and defenders of the plants. Venture into this tiny and colorful world with entomologist and WSU Extension Educator Sharon J. Collman. Sharon gardens to attract insects to her small-plot backyard biodiversity study.
Instructor Bio:
Sharon Collman has been employed with WSU Extension since 1973 when she helped develop the pilot WSU Master Gardener Program in King, Pierce and Snohomish Counties. Sharon has worked for WSU as a horticulture and pest management educator in King and Snohomish Counties and as a liaison to EPA Region 10 working on Water Quality issues and as the regional IPM Coordinator in WA, OR, ID, and AK at EPA. In Dec. 2005, she returned to WSU Snohomish County Extension as the Extension Educator for Commercial and Community Horticulture and Master Gardener Program lead. She provides education programs for nursery and landscape professionals, garden writers and Master Gardeners. She is also adjunct faculty at WSU Department of Entomology and is continuing to work to complete her Ph.D. Collman has authored more than 75 articles and publications, received numerous awards for her educational programs including the Washington State Nursery and Landscape Association’s Educator of the year award. She occasionally appears on Ed Hume’s “Gardening in America” TV show and Ciscoe Morris’s “Gardening with Ciscoe” radio show.
Sue Olson
Title TBD
Monday June 18th, 7pm-9pm
NHS Hall Section A, Center for Urban Horticulture, 3501 NE 41st St. Seattle, WA 98105 Map
Description TBD
Summer picnic at location and time to be determined
Crane Stavig
Transforming Garden Spaces
Monday, August 20th, 7pm-9pm
NHS Hall Section A, Center for Urban Horticulture, 3501 NE 41st St. Seattle, WA 98105 Map
Proprietor of GreenCliff, Crane Stavig, will demonstrate dramatic garden transformations.
Zsofia Pasztor
Using hardy and native plants in low impact development
Monday, September 16th, 7pm – 9pm
NHS Hall Section A, Center for Urban Horticulture, 3501 NE 41st St. Seattle, WA 98105 Map
Low Impact Development - Zsofia Pasztor
Low Impact Development is the new buzz. LID involves soils and plants most of the time since these are the two foundational players in the hydrological function of a site. Rain gardens, green roofs, living walls, bioberms, restored or preserved natural areas are all LID solutions. Plants are the best allies, they look great, add value to the property, provide habitat to wildlife and manage water proficiently since this is what they ‘just do’ by their nature.
tree with daffodils
Saturday, October 7th, from 10am-2pm we’ll hold our 2nd annual Fall Bulb Sale in the Douglas Classroom at the Center for Urban Horticulture. Details and plant list to follow shortly.
