UPCOMING PROGRAMS & EVENTS

Where: Washington State Convention Center in Downtown Seattle

For more information: Email us or call 206-783-9813

Once again, PlantAmnesty volunteers will staff a booth at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show, Wednesday - Sunday, February 8 - 12, 2012. We will feature an updated gallery of horrors, answer zillions of pruning and landscape questions, sign up lots of new members, and offer scads of timely and accurate pruning literature. Stop by and see us at our corner booth (# 2314) on the edge of the plant market. On Sunday, February 12, Cass Turnbull is a Flower Show featured speaker at 11am in the Hood Room. Her topic will be Difficult Plants to Prune: Basic Techniques, Common Mistakes, & Corrective Action. She will likely stop by the booth after her talk to sign books, so drop by to say hello if you’re at the show on Sunday.

If you would like to volunteer to staff our booth for a two- or three-hour shift (and get a free ticket to the show for the day!), contact Laura Watson at 206-783-9813 or laura.watson@plantamnesty.org.

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

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The February meeting will be hosted by PlantAmnesty’s Education/Outreach Committee. The topic will be: Four-Legged Trouble in Your Garden, and will be presented by Dave Pehling, a WSU teacher with a BS in Zoology. He will regale us with tales of managing rats, rabbits, moles, voles, deer, and more.

These meetings are potlucks, although you don’t have to bring anything to be able to eat. A small donation will pay your way out of minor guilt. We also have a fun auction and announcements of current events. Meetings are free and open to the public.

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

For more information: Email us or call 206-783-9813

Come see us at Sky Nursery on February 25 when we put on our Third Annual Prune-a-Thon. We will offer many free pruning classes on two stages all through the day, on topics like Japanese maples, rhododendrons, fruit trees, kiwis, clematis, and more! If you bring along a photo of an area in your yard you would like to rework, our professional garden designers will give you a free garden-design consultation. And, of course, we will have our PlantAmnesty booth with our gallery of pruning horrors and great information on pruning the right way, as well as informational booths of some of our horticultural sisters, like the Master Gardeners, Seattle Tilth, and the Seattle Tree Fruit Society. Come to learn and stay to spend--Sky Nursery will donate a portion of the day's proceeds to PlantAmnesty!

If you are available and inclined to help us put on the best Prune-a-Thon ever, we need people for set up and take down, boothers, greeters, and more! Contact Laura Watson at 206-783-9813 or laura.watson@plantamnesty.org.

Where: Shilshole Bay Beach Club, 6413 Seaview Ave NW, Seattle, WA

For more information: Email us or call 206.783.9813

SAVE THE DATE! July with Ciscoe on Shilshole Bay!

Play for choice plants and horticultural prizes. No bingo experience required to eat chili and win! Tickets include chili and bingo cards.

Must be 18+ to participate.

A Benefit for PlantAmnesty.

Where: Seattle Golf Club near the Highlands

For more information: Email us or call 206.783.9813

SAVE THE DATE!

Fifteen Celebrity Gardeners will grace the dining tables of attendees. Dan Hinkley, Ciscoe Morris, Valerie Easton, Marty Wingate, and many more will light up this star-studded evening—Oscar night for the garden world.

More details to come.