Hardy Plant Society of Washington

*Meeting is Tuesday not Monday due to MLK Holiday

Sarah Verlinde, Launch Specialist with the UW Bothell Herbarium Collections, and fellow researcher Ashley will speak on ‘The Good, the Bad and the Yummy’, restoring bird habitat through the use of native and perennials plants and shrubs in the Pacific Northwest.

Sarah earned a degree in Biology which included several plant studies.  She participated in wetland mitigation and restoration projects with Snohomish County, doing plant inventory and monitoring.  She worked as an intern at the Tulalip Tribes to reintroduce a native food source, Wapato (Sagittaria latifolia), to tribal land.  With this project she won a Scholarship Award from the Society for Wetland Scientists and presented at the PNW 2015 Conference in Olympia. 

Sarah Verlinde works full-time as a Launch Specialist at the UW Bothell Office of Research.  Most of her work focuses on grant support and new projects, including the launch of the UW Bothell Herbarium which began in 2015.

Meeting at Center for Urban Horticulture;  NHS Hall Section A,

Doors open at 6:30 for Seed Sales and food & socializing .

3501 NE 41st St. Seattle, WA 98105  MAP

Join us and Gardener Dina Russell, Founder of PlantShare in her talk on “The Rhizosphere: Where Plants & Humans meet” .

We will have a lively discussion on the region of soil in the vicinity of plant roots in which the chemistry and microbiology is influenced by their growth, respiration, and nutrient exchange.

November 18th from 7-9pm

Meeting at Center for Urban Horticulture;  NHS Hall Section A,

Doors open at 6:30 for Seed Sales and food & socializing .

3501 NE 41st St. Seattle, WA 98105  MAP

Everyone is welcome to bring refreshments

Join us this month as Heidi Kaster of Dragonfly Farm Gardens and Jeff Borsema of Dreamscapes Water Gardens & Construction show us how to develop Water Walls, Stairs and Ponds for the backyard garden. Heidi and Jeff will also review plants that work well in and around water features.

Meeting at Center for Urban Horticulture;  NHS Hall, Section A. Doors open at 6:30 for seed sales . Also food & socializing .

Heidi Kaster will have some dwarf conifers in gallon pots available for purchase .

3501 NE 41st St. Seattle, WA 98105  MAP

Growing Tomatoes with Robin Wyll

Robin Wyll will share her tips for Tomato Growing Success in NW gardens.  She’ll  share strategies she has developed over 20 years in her Woodinville  garden for growing tomatoes organically  in her garden touching on ways to shelter, variety selection, soil health, timing, mulching, and pest & disease control.  

Robin will have tomato plants for sale.

Meeting at Center for Urban Horticulture;  NHS Hall, Section A, Doors open at 6:30 for Seed Sales and food & socializing .

3501 NE 41st St. Seattle, WA 98105  MAP