Where: Center for Urban Horticulture’s NHS Hall (3501 NE 41st St, in Seattle)

For more information: Email us or call 206.783.9813

Free and open to the public, potluck friendly, beer and wine approved, come as you are.

Topic: Figs and Fig Pruning.

Speakers Hildegard Hendrickson and Kiwi Bob are back by popular demand. Last year they spoke on kiwis to a jam-packed room. Everyone agreed we want to hear more, more, more! And if you have a good fig recipe, make it up and bring it to share.

Where: Sky Nursery, Aurora Ave N and N 185th St in Shoreline

For more information: Email us or call 206.783.9813

Come with your friends for a day of free pruning (and garden planning) demonstrations, talks and slideshows.

Topics: Pruning Apples and Pears, Pruning Roses, Pruning Japanese Laceleaf Maples, My Rhody’s Too Big (and what you can do about it), How to Prune and Renovate the Overgrown Garden, Tree Pruning, and more.

PlantAmnesty-approved designers will be on hand to provide 15-minute free design-solution consults for a small garden area. You bring photos, estimated square footage, soil type (sand, clay, or in-between), light, and direction of exposure (e.g., full sun, south-facing or part shade, north-facing). Representatives from various plant societies will be there to answer your questions: Master Gardeners, Seattle Tree Fruit Society, PlantAmnesty, Seattle Tilth, and the Seattle Rose Society.

And, for your additional amusement, PlantAmnesty has asked Father Weedo Sarducci to come with his confessional. He will hear your gardening sins and, when appropriate, dispense forgiveness. Also Lawenda, the beautiful and intriguing plant channeler, will be there to read your horticultural fortune.