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Pine Siskin – Neil Zimmerman
Neil Zimmerman
Seattle Audubon Society
Monday, March 18th, 7pm – 9pm
NHS Hall Section A, Center for Urban Horticulture, 3501 NE 41st St. Seattle, WA 98105 Map
Join Neil Zimmerman, Seattle Audubon Outreach Chair and Master Birder, to learn how to attract and care for birds in your yard through plant selection, gardening practices and use of water features. Power Point photos, many from Neil’s yard, will be used to illustrate the different ideas. Gardening and birding are a natural fit.
Handed out at the NW Flower and Garden Show were the postcards with our
Scheduled 2013 Events:
- January 22nd Jennifer Carlson – Sustainable Garden Design
- February 20-24th NW Flower and Garden Show
- March 18th Neil Zimmerman – Seattle Audubon
- April 14th, 10-2pm Spring Plant Sale – CUH
- May 20th Linda Urbaniak – Great Plant Picks
- June 17th Walt Bubelis
- July No Meeting
- August 11th Summer Picnic, TBD
- September 16th Linda McDonald – Overwintering Half-Hardy Plants
- October 13th, 10-2pm Fall Bulb Sale – CUH
- November 18th Linda Chalker Scott – Myths about Gardening
- December 15th Holiday Party
All meetings at the Center for Urban Horticulture (CUH) from 7-9 pm
Don’t forget to visit and volunteer at our new Public Garden at CUH!
Paeonia Coral Charm
Come see us at the NW Flower and Garden Show this year in booth 2404!
Our dedicated Flower and Garden Show committee put up our booth and placed 240 pots of Selaginella kraussiana ‘Brownii’ from T&L Nursery (see details from our 2010 booth), and Primula ‘Zebra’ into our vertical garden, and potted up Hellebore ‘Snow Fever’, Prosanthera, and others.
Booth Left
Booth Right
The large Paeonia ‘Coral Charm’ photo for the backdrop, and most of the postcard photos were provided by Lynne Harrison Photos.
[Top Left] Astrantia maxima and Epimedium [Top Right] Paeonia ‘Coral Charm’
[Second Row Left] Achillea ‘Peachy Seduction’, Second Row Right] Crocus sp.
[Third Row Left] Anemone nemorosa ‘Robinsoniana’ [Third Row Right] Tulipa sp.
[Bottom Row Left] Rosa ‘Lady Emma Hamilton’ [Bottom Row Right] Helenium ‘Mardi Gras’ and Geranium ‘Rosanne’.
Postcards
Jennifer Carlson
Sustainable Landscape Design
TUESDAY, January 22nd, 2013, 7:00 pm-9:00pm
NHS Hall Section A, Center for Urban Horticulture, 3501 NE 41st St. Seattle, WA 98105 Map
Haven Illustrated
Please come early for treats and socializing, so we can begin promptly.
About the speaker:
Jennifer Carlson is an illustrator and a landscape designer. She has degrees in both art and in landscape architecture. Since the 1970’s she has planned and implemented many organic gardens in the Pacific Northwest. She has lived and studied sustainable gardening practices while residing outside the U.S., in Nepal, Yugoslavia, and Germany. Jennifer is now based in Seattle, where she teaches classes in low-maintenance plant selection, sustainable landscape design, and keeping a small flock of hens. She organizes and leads garden tours of her family’s demonstration garden and writes about organic garden design and seasonal activities and crafts for Farmer’s Almanac TV. Her garden has been featured in local and national magazines, several books and in a PBS program for public TV.