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The WSU San Juan County
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The Master Gardener Foundation’s Annual Native Plant Sale offers a selection of bare-root trees, shrubs, and potted plants from the Salish Seeds Nursery. Check back closer to the date for details.
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The WSU San Juan County
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We just held a successful Spring Plant Sale selling hundreds of unique vegetable starts and landscape perennials this May, just in time for Mother’s Day. We will hold the sale in person on San Juan Island and Orcas Island again in May, 2024. We will have a variety of tomato, pepper, and herb starts as well as perennials. The location and dates will be announced in January of 2024.
Vegetable varieties will be those we love for their wonderful flavors and dependability in our short summers, and nearly all will be heirlooms or open-pollinated varieties not available elsewhere. We will have “Arc of Taste” heirlooms, a living catalog of delicious and distinctive food; Master Gardener taste-test winners; a legendary number of cherry tomatoes and other tomatoes, peppers, and herbs that work well in small gardens or containers.
Master Gardeners grow all of the perennials in their gardens, so they’re “island-adapted” to our unique maritime climate. Each year’s selections include ground covers, perennial flowers, ornamental grasses, and small shrubs, including many native plants.
All plants will be affordably priced. Proceeds from the sale are used to support Master Gardener programs such as the SJI Master Gardener Demonstration Garden, which provides over 1,500 pounds of produce every year for the SJI Food Bank. Funds also support this sale; community education programs; Plant Problem Diagnostic Clinics on Lopez, Orcas, and San Juan Islands; as well as the Orcas School Native Plant Garden and the Lopez Heirloom Apple Orchard.
Thank you for joining us to celebrate gardening at our plant sale this year and again in 2024!
Vegetable varieties will be those we love for their wonderful flavors and dependability in our short summers, and nearly all will be heirlooms or open-pollinated varieties not available elsewhere. We will have “Arc of Taste” heirlooms, a living catalog of delicious and distinctive food; Master Gardener taste-test winners; a legendary number of cherry tomatoes and other tomatoes, peppers, and herbs that work well in small gardens or containers.
Master Gardeners grow all of the perennials in their gardens, so they’re “island-adapted” to our unique maritime climate. Each year’s selections include ground covers, perennial flowers, ornamental grasses, and small shrubs, including many native plants.
All plants will be affordably priced. Proceeds from the sale are used to support Master Gardener programs such as the SJI Master Gardener Demonstration Garden, which provides over 1,500 pounds of produce every year for the SJI Food Bank. Funds also support this sale; community education programs; Plant Problem Diagnostic Clinics on Lopez, Orcas, and San Juan Islands; as well as the Orcas School Native Plant Garden and the Lopez Heirloom Apple Orchard.
Thank you for joining us to celebrate gardening at our plant sale this year and again in 2024!
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The WSU San Juan County
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Our WSU Master Gardener Foundation mission is to engage university-trained
volunteers to empower and sustain diverse communities with relevant, unbiased,
research-based horticulture and environmental stewardship education. With this
mission in mind we offer our Garden Workshop Series annually in October to our gardening community.
The workshop will be held virtually in 2024 and will include eight presentations. Our
speakers are University professors, Extension educators, professional gardeners, and
accomplished Master Gardeners who will share their knowledge, experience, and
beautiful photographs of plants, flowers, birds and bees, and garden pests.
Our 2024 keynote speaker will be author Frédérique Lavoipierre whose book
“Garden Allies: The Insects, Birds, and Other Animals That Keep Your Garden
Beautiful and Thriving,” explores the biodiversity in our gardens with science and
whimsical delight.
Frédérique Lavoipierre is the former director of education at the Santa Barbara
Botanic Garden. She holds a M.Sc. in Biology, focused on garden ecology and
plant/insect interactions. Frédérique lectures, teaches, and works as a consultant.
She serves on the editorial advisory group for the American Public Gardens
Association magazine, and is on the content committee for the Pacific Horticulture
Society.
Two hundred plus Washington state gardeners have attended our virtual workshop
series annually since 2020. Our speakers and presentations received excellent
reviews from home gardeners and master gardeners alike. Please join us for
another excellent virtual learning experience in 2024! The speakers, topics and
registration information will be posted in June 2024.
volunteers to empower and sustain diverse communities with relevant, unbiased,
research-based horticulture and environmental stewardship education. With this
mission in mind we offer our Garden Workshop Series annually in October to our gardening community.
The workshop will be held virtually in 2024 and will include eight presentations. Our
speakers are University professors, Extension educators, professional gardeners, and
accomplished Master Gardeners who will share their knowledge, experience, and
beautiful photographs of plants, flowers, birds and bees, and garden pests.
Our 2024 keynote speaker will be author Frédérique Lavoipierre whose book
“Garden Allies: The Insects, Birds, and Other Animals That Keep Your Garden
Beautiful and Thriving,” explores the biodiversity in our gardens with science and
whimsical delight.
Frédérique Lavoipierre is the former director of education at the Santa Barbara
Botanic Garden. She holds a M.Sc. in Biology, focused on garden ecology and
plant/insect interactions. Frédérique lectures, teaches, and works as a consultant.
She serves on the editorial advisory group for the American Public Gardens
Association magazine, and is on the content committee for the Pacific Horticulture
Society.
Two hundred plus Washington state gardeners have attended our virtual workshop
series annually since 2020. Our speakers and presentations received excellent
reviews from home gardeners and master gardeners alike. Please join us for
another excellent virtual learning experience in 2024! The speakers, topics and
registration information will be posted in June 2024.