Celebrate Mother’s Day Weekend from 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. at the Annual Flower Festival at Pike Place Market. Farmers inside the Arcade and under the tents along the cobblestones of Pike Place in the market will offer beautiful bouquets to brighten any mom’s weekend. On the craftstables, look for many floral-themed, handcrafted gifts–from glass art to yard art–made locally by Market craftspeople. You can also create your own card for mom at a free card making tent on the street.
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Be sure to attend the Bellevue Botanical Garden Mother’s Day social from 1:00pm to 4:00pm. Mother’s Day at the Garden is always a wondrous day. It is a time to honor our mothers, enjoy the beauty of our gardens, and share refreshments with friends and family. This event is free and open to all. Donations are always welcome. Vegetable gardeners on the Eastside – you’re in luck! Seattle Tilth brings a great selection of locally grown organic vegetable and herb starts to Issaquah to help you have the best garden ever. The sale is at the Issaquah Farmer’s Market located at the Pickering Barn, 1730 10th Ave. NW, Issaquah, WA 98027 (Google map); across the street from Costco! The Edible Plant Sale in Issaquah features vegetable and herb varieties that are hand-selected by the Seattle Tilth experts to perform well in the Pacific Northwest climate including tomatoes, peppers, squash, salad greens, cucumbers, culinary herbs such as basil, oregano, rosemary, heirloom varieties and more. Bellevue Botanical Gardens celebrates Public Gardens Day on Friday, May 11, 2012, in keeping with National Public Gardens Day. National Public Gardens Day is an annual celebration of public gardens across America, to raise awareness of the important role botanical gardens play in promoting education and environmental stewardship, plant and water conservation, and green spaces. Like many public gardens around the nation, Bellevue Botanical Garden will celebrate with fun activities throughout the Mother’s Day weekend. Why not make it a family trip and take Mom to Bellevue Botanical Gardens as a surprise? It’s a whole new way to give the gift of flowers, and it’s a FREE gift, too, if you take advantage of a promotion by Better Homes and Gardens magazine and the American Public Gardens Association. Get National Public Gardens Day FREE admission on May 11 when you sign up online, select the garden you’d like to visit, and indicate how many people you want to take with you. You can get FREE admission for up to ten people. Seattle Tilth’s May Edible Plant Sale offers Seattle gardeners the largest selection of organically and sustainably grown vegetable starts. This event is essential for the discerning vegetable gardener, providing over 50 varieties of tomatoes and 20 varieties of peppers, rare and heirloom veggie varieties, an extensive selection of culinary herbs, edible flowers, and drought tolerant perennials. These plants are hand-selected by the Seattle Tilth experts to perform well in our Pacific Northwest climate. The sale runs Saturday and Sunday, May 5 and 6 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM at Meridian Park in the Wallingford Neighborhood, behind the Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N. Seattle, WA 98103 (Google map). Be sure to review Hot Tips for Shopping the Edible Plant Sale before you head out. Flowering cherry trees burst into bloom March-May throughout the Pacific Northwest. Here are a few locations where you can find them in particular splendor.
This magnificent sale, the largest in the Puget Sound region, features a glorious variety of plants from dozens of the region’s specialty nurseries. Species and hybrid rhododendrons, unusual annuals, favorite and rare perennials, trees, shrubs, beautiful conifers, groundcovers, vegetable starts, grasses, vines and even more. “If you love gardening, the Arboretum Foundation spring plant sale feels like horticultural heaven,” says garden writer Ann Lovejoy. Sale location: Warren G. Magnuson Park (Building 30), 7400 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115. (Google map). Want to find a p-patch to garden this year? Urban Garden Share pairs together eager gardeners with eager gardens. When neighbors come together and co-operatively grow food, dirt flies and good things happen. Long one of the Northwest’s best-kept gardening secrets, the Arboretum Foundation Early Bloomers plant sale has become an area favorite. Featuring plants that bloom early in Northwest gardens and many others, the sale offers a great start on spring planting with hundreds of favorite and unusual plants. Perennials, shrubs, small trees, herbs and much more, with many surprises! Location for the sale is on the Washington Park Arborteum grounds at the Plant Donations and the Pat Calvert Greenhouses, just south of the Graham Visitors Center. For directions and maps click here. |
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