Designing the Garden You Want:
From Basics to the Final Touches

Saturday, October 10 - 9 am to 3:30 pm
NPA Members $65/Non Members $85, includes lunch

Bastyr University
14500 Juanita Drive NE
Kenmore

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8:00 a.m. Registration Opens.  Plant & Seed Sales
9:00 a.m. Door Prizes – Lectures Begin
Noon – 1:30 p.m. Lunch  
3:30 p.m.  Symposium Conclusion

Begin with a blueprint of property around a home in need of everything, from landscape design to defining and planting specific garden areas, to adding the final touch with containers and garden art. Next, gather a slate of professionals who consider the blueprint and offer solid advice on the steps needed to create a dream garden -- and how you can translate their techniques to create the garden of your dreams!

This symposium will be a totally unique series of lectures never before offered:

  • Moderator Don Marshall starts with an overview of the concept garden - a Northwest home and property not unlike your own.
  • Irene Mills lays out the ‘bones’ of the garden, including foundation plantings, front entry, back terrace space and play and planting areas, considering soil content, sun exposure and microclimates.
  • Sue Moss gives recommendations to make the most of the often difficult shady side yard.
  • Lorene Forkner teaches how to plan and prepare the best space to grow edibles, and what edibles work best in our climate.
  • Tina Dixon shares her secrets for spectacular container gardens to enhance garden spaces, and how to place pots around various outdoor areas.
  • Leanette Bassetti provides the finishing touches with tips on incorporating garden art that will fit your unique style and space.

OUR SPEAKERS

Don MarshallDon Marshall - Educator, landscape designer, and nurseryman, Don Marshall has established one of the outstanding horticulture programs in Washington state. He teaches full time, is a Certified Arborist, and owns a landscape design, installation, and maintenance firm. He has received many awards, including the Lifetime Honorary Membership in the Washington State Nursery & Landscaping Association in 1998.

 

 

Irene MillsIrene Mills - Irene Mills is a Certified Professional Horticulturist and owner of The Plant Mommy LLC, specializing in garden coaching, consultation, and sustainable landscape designs.  She designed silver medal-winning display gardens for the Point Defiance Flower & Garden Show in 2007 and 2008, and her own garden was featured on the cover of the Fall 2008 issue of South Sound magazine. Click here to see the slides from Irene's presentation.

 

Sue MossSue Moss - Sue Moss has been designing and installing gardens for 20 years and has a degree in landscape design from EdCC.  She speaks on topics such as drought tolerance, the aging gardener's garden and perennials as cut flowers.  She is a past NPA Co-Chair and Speaker and Open Gardens Chair.  Her own garden was featured by Val Easton in Pacific Northwest magazine. Click here for a list of Resources for Gardening in Shade.



Lorene ForknerLorene Forkner - Lorene Forkner has been described as the “rock star of the Seattle gardening scene.”  For 13 years, Lorene was the owner/operator of Fremont Gardens, a specialty nursery in Seattle.  A freelance writer, she has completed two 2009 “Encyclopedia of Country Living Home Guides” for Sasquatch: Growing Your Own Vegetables, and Canning and Preserving Your Own Harvest.  Click here for a list of recommended edlibles for your garden.

 

 

Tina DixonTina Dixon - Tina Dixon is owner of Plants a la Cart, a design, installation and maintenance service specializing in exterior container gardens.  She has been a certified Environmental Horticulturist since 1987.  Named the “Best New Container Garden Designer” by Sunset in 1999, she also won a 2007 “Golden Trowel” award from Garden Design magazine.  Her container designs were featured in a 2007 issue of Garden Design. 

 

 

Leanette BassettiLeanette Bassetti – Leanette Bassetti and her husband Bill own the unique Crooked Arbor Gardens in Woodinville, which is known for the outstanding private sculptures by well-known artists placed throughout the three-acres of rich and diverse display gardens.