Lectures & Workshops

Fall Lecture Series

Doors open at 7 pm and programs begin promptly at 7:30. Desserts and beverages will be served. Please renew your membership at this meeting, or join for the first time.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

7:30 p.m. — Whatcom Museum, Bellingham
Tickets at the door: $7 Members $12 General

Marty Wingate

Gardens and Gardeners Abroad

Come hear about garden travels in England, Scotland and Ireland and maybe a little bit of Italy thrown in. Heres your chance for some armchair travel or to start planning your next trip.

Here's a PDF of the list of gardens from Marty's program on the 9th.

Travel broadens your mind, they say. For gardeners, it also broadens our plant palette and our design ideas. Wherever we go, we collect lists of trees or shrubs we might like in our gardens or the style of a gate or a fountain much as others collect tea towels or spoons. The clematis we saw at the Cider House in Devon, that unusual hornbeam growing at Birr Castle Demesne in Ireland, the repeating rows of Doric columns at Iford Manor in Wiltshire. We may not be able to include them all, but it doesn't mean we can't make lists and dream.

Marty speaks at national events, and writes for a variety of publications including Country Gardens and The American Gardener. She is a weekly guest on KUOW's Green (10 AM Tuesday, 90.3 FM in Bellingham).  Marty won a 2010 Silver Trowel award from the Garden Writers Association for on-air talent and she has a masters degree in urban horticulture from the University of Washington.

Marty's soon to be published fourth book is Landscaping for Privacy (Timber Press, December 2011). For more about Marty, her website is: In the Garden with Marty; or her travel blog is Passports and Seed Packets: Gardens and Gardeners Abroad.