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2025 Open Gardens Registration
MEMBERS ONLY
Sign up to open your garden for NPA in 2025! Registering to open your garden is a 2-step process:
Step 1 - Click the REGISTER button on this page and submit your name, email address, and phone number (use the email address associated with your membership).
Step 2 - You will immediately receive an email from NPA that includes a link to a Registration Form where you fill out information about your garden and list your open dates – this form can be saved and updated as often as needed.
Registration is open year-round - but note the following deadlines:
February 28th is the registration deadline to be listed in the printed/mailed version of the Open Gardens book. The book lists gardens open from May 1st through September 30th.
Please register a minimum of 3 weeks before your open date to allow NPA time to process your registration, mail your host packet, and advertise your event.
Click HERE for more details about registering to open your garden. Or contact us if you have questions or need help completing your registration - OpenGardens@northwestperennialalliance.org
Monday, May 5
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Picture Perfect Phone Photography webinar
Presented by: Grace Hensley
Unlock the potential of your smart phone camera! You will learn how to optimize settings, understand composition techniques, review photo organization methods and elevate your overall mobile photography skills. Use your new skills to take fantastic photos as you tour Open Gardens. Then enter your photos in the Open Gardens photo contest!
Grace Hensley is a Certified Professional Horticulturalist and Garden Photographer based near Seattle. She helps gardeners capture the beauty of their plants through photography, specializing in smartphone techniques, giving garden lovers inspiration. She speaks at garden clubs and horticultural events nationwide and is the former Regional Director of the Garden Communicators International Association; Member Garden Media Guild and the Professional Garden Photographers Association (UK).
Members - $5
Non-members - $15
The fee for this class is non-refundable. If cancelled by NPA, you will receive a full refund.
This is an ONLINE presentation only. You must register to receive a Zoom link to watch this event LIVE, where questions can be asked of the presenter. A RECORDING of the presentation will be available to all registrants until May 20, 2025.
Friday August 22 - Sunday August 24
Arts in the Garden Plant Sale at Bellevue Botanical Garden
Bellevue Botanical Garden
Friday, August 22, 12-5pm
Saturday, August 23, 10am-5pm
Sunday, August 24, 10am-3pm
Join NPA at this fun-tastic event! Buy plants from NPA and help support the Perennial Border. We will offer great plants from local growers. This is our main fundraiser for purchasing new border plants - please support us by stopping by!
Click HERE for details about this event, including a list of garden art vendors.
Visit the NPA Border after shopping!
Saturday, September 6
Fall Plant Sale at Bellevue Botanical Gardens
10 am to 1 pm
Fall is the perfect time to plant! Buy plants from a select group of local small nurseries and specialty growers who sell amazing perennials, shrubs, ferns, grasses and more.
This is a Farmer's Market style plant sale where you purchase plants directly from each seller - bring your own small wagon/cart.
Plant Vendors at this sale will be listed in the NPA e-newsletter prior to the sale. The plant sale features plants from local growers.
The PARKING lot is often full - but additional parking is not far away - down Main Street.
Contact NPA: 425-647-6004
info@northwestperennialalliance.org
Mailing Address: PO Box 1034 Bellevue, WA 98009-1034
