Upcoming Classes & Events
2012 Tacoma Home and Garden Show, Tacoma Dome
January 26th, 2012 at noon
Landscaping with Herbs
Herbs capture our imagination for their flavor and fragrance, but many herbs are perfect ornamental additions to landscapes. Many herbs are overlooked for their texture and beauty that create fragrant hedges, mixed borders, container gardens and more. All sizes and styles of gardens come into play. Just imagine a French Provençal style garden with the purple haze of lavender or a Mediterranean garden with fragrant rosemary. Herb varieties can bring classic style and take the center stage in many designs. Herbs alone can make a garden, but using the framework of other landscape plants creates a design with longevity and structure.
2012 Tacoma Home and Garden Show, Tacoma Dome
January 27th, 2012 at noon
Garden Design DIY
A beginners guide and creative approach to designing a garden. Practical tips to get the process going successfully. Don’t just create a landscape; plant a garden with texture, dimension and longevity. Make it yours.
Easy ideas to incorporate the practical aspects to create the garden you have always dreamed of. Shortcuts to designing by using photographs and many more insider tips.
2012 Tacoma Home and Garden Show
January 28th at 3 pm
Garden Borders from Dull to Drama
How-to tips and ideas for editing existing mixed garden borders; easy ways to re-invent without having to completely re-do. Learn tricks of the trade and create fabulous mixed borders. Peel back the layers of plantings; discover what is missing and where to add puddles and pockets of color and texture and drama! Photos inspirations and step-by-step instruction to become your own designer.
February 11 at 7 pm
Top Ten Multi-Purpose Herbs
2012 Northwest Flower and Garden Show, Seattle.
www.gardenshow.com
Top ten (and maybe a few bonus ones) herbs with diversity! Start with their beauty in the landscape and then discover ways to use them. Create culinary treats, body care products and household remedies. Growing hints, landscape design ideas and recipes included.
Re-defining Andante’ ( ăn-dăn-'tē)
www.gardenshow.com
February 8-12, 2012
March 3, 2012 at 10:30 am
Things an Idaho Garden Taught Me!
Idaho Horticultural Symposium,
Boise Centre on the Grove, Boise ID
Drought is not a dirty word, Angel Face is a love hate relationship, perennials need their long winter nap and so much more! As a former Idaho resident who now gardens in a zone 8 garden in Washington state, gardener designer, Sue Goetz, heard many times how she is lucky to be able to grow this and that and garden year round. Yet, there is so much to learn from an Idaho garden. Join Sue for a humorous twist on the appreciation of Idaho gardening.
March 3rd 2012 at 2:30
Top Ten Multi-Purpose Herbs
Idaho Horticultural Symposium,
Boise Centre on the Grove, Boise ID.
Top ten (and maybe a few bonus ones) herbs with diversity! Start with their beauty in the landscape and then discover ways to use them. Create culinary treats, body care products and household remedies. Growing hints, landscape design ideas and recipes included.
Join Sue for an Herbal Spa Weekend at the Oregon Garden in Silverton, Oregon
March 30th, 2012 at 6 pm
Herb Garden Favorites
A five senses discovery in the herb garden. Herbs in the garden for fragrance, culinary, healing and more. Get to know the top ten favorite herbs as well as the many ways to grow and use them. Show and tell ideas and tips for harvesting, preserving, culinary and crafts all using aromatic herbs. Also included; Sue’s recipes that use “any” herb, recipes that personalize crafting, care and culinary items.
March 31st, 2012 at 10 am
Herbal Lotions and Potions
Grow your own lotions and beauty potions. Tips and recipes to soaps, bath salts, fragrant herbal waters, household and beauty products all using fresh herbs from the garden. Topics include herb varieties to grow, their qualities, harvesting and preserving tips. Hands-on workshop to
take home hand-blended herbal goodies.
& more...stay tuned for updates!
Lots of fun stuff scheduled for 2012
