Saturday's Garden Talks

Jan Nielsen - Stone in the Garden
 

Surrounded by over 8 acres of river rock, quartzite, granite and basalt it’s safe to say that Jan Nielsen, Project Manager at Marenakos Stone in Fall City, knows a thing or two about this versatile design element. Stone is often used naturally among plantings, as pathways, retaining walls and to provide sculptural art in the landscape. Join Jan at 11am Saturday where he will be discussing the stone installations featured within the Carhart landscape and share with listeners how to select and install stone for their own garden projects.

Dave Hunter - Mason Bee Expert & Educator

Dave Hunter of Hunter’sMason Bees in Woodinville and Crown Bees educational website and online mason bee product supplier, is working to change pollination methods for future orchards across North America. Dave has partnered with 500 gardeners across the NW (70 just on Vashon) to raise mason bees to improve the health of their orchards, gardens and overall landscape and promote healthy mason bee populations. For more information on Mason Bees and how to get involved, stop by the Pearson garden at noon on Saturday.

Melissa Schafer (Hey, that's me!) - Secrets to Fantastic Container Creations

I'll share my secrets to designing a container using design elements focusing on plant structure, texture & color to bring your container to life! Similar to incorporating art into your garden, a single container in the landscape provides a focal element and by grouping containers together, your able to create a versatile extension of the landscape with a condensed pallet of plant texture and color combinations. Watch step by step as the container comes to life Saturday at 1pm at the Soholt garden and be sure to purchase a raffle ticket to take the container planting home with you! 

 Leda Langley - Top Plant Picks for the Garden

Hollyhock, Columbine & Scabiosa

Leda Langley is part of the husband and wife team behind Langley Fine Gardens, a wholesale nursery specializing in the unique and hard to find varieties of vegetables and annuals including over 100 varieties of tomatoes, peppers and eggplants suitable for the PNW and custom blends of salad greens. Leda will be sharing some of the exciting plants they are growing this year including the “black” flowering varities such as ‘Sooty’ dianthus, Scabiosa ‘Ace of Spades’ and ‘Watchman’ Hollyhock as well as some of her continued favorites like the night scented flowers, hummingbird attractors and the rare Echium pinninana - a 12’ tall biennial from the Canary Islands producing tall cones of lavender colored flowers, a favorite of honeybees. Leda will be sharing Saturday, 2pm in the Foster/Fillinger garden and their unique plants will be available for purchase at their farm stand conveniently next door.