Events & Workshops

SPROUT SESSION: Fun for Budding Gardeners

Potato Prints & Planting

Featuring Art Instructor Amy Pille, with the Nature Consortium

Children will learn how to carve a potato into a cool printmaking tool, make ink prints, plant potato eyes and learn how to grow potatoes. Each session is limited to 25 children, most supplies provided, (including ink, soil and potato-growing container). Please bring a pairing knife, a melon baller (optional) and 1-2 small cookie cutters to use in designing the potato printing tool.

Please register before 3/12 using the link in the Date box. This workshop is offered two different times; 10-11 am, and 11am-noon.

STORYTIME: The Word Garden

Featuring author and illustrator Perdita Goodenow

Perdita says, "The Word Garden teaches a lesson we all know, but need to be reminded of frequently --that our words are powerful and affect our lives and relationships. Just like seeds grow in soil, words grow in our hearts. "Word Gardens" need the same loving care as our flowers and vegetables."

The Readings will follow the two separate Sprout Sessions scheduled on 3/13.

SPROUT SESSION: Fun for Budding Gardeners
Potato Prints & Planting

Featuring Art Instructor Amy Pille, with the Nature Consortium

Children will learn how to carve a potato into a cool printmaking tool, make ink prints, plant potato eyes and learn how to grow potatoes. Each session is limited to 25 children, most supplies provided, (including ink, soil and potato-growing container). Please bring a pairing knife, a melon baller (optional) and 1-2 small cookie cutters to use in designing the potato printing tool.

Please register before 3/12 using the link in the Date box. This workshop is offered two different times; 10-11 am, and 11am-noon.

Q & A: Puget Sound Dahlia Association onsite with the answers you need.

SEMINAR: The Buzz about Gardening with Mason Bees

Featuring King-County Master Gardener Missy Anderson

Did you know that orchard mason bees are very efficient pollinators? Missy will open our eyes to the wonders of these cool little critters and show us how we can help support our native pollinators. Kids are welcome to attend.

OFF SITE: Visit us at Columbia Winery's Taste of White event

The Taste of White event showcases Columbia Winery's award-winning white wines. This is a weekend event full of wine, music and specialty food products and crafts.

SEMINAR: Planning the Ultimate Salad Garden

Featuring Willi Galloway, west coast editor, Organic Gardening magazine, member of KUOW's Greendays Gardening Panel, & creator of Digginfood.com

Learn how to map out a delicious and nutritious salad garden - one that will continuously produce salad ingredients month after month. Also, hear tips on fertilization, how to create a weed-free bed, and when to use seeds vs. starts.

SERVICE: Pruning Tools Sharpened

Drop off your pruning tools for cleaning, adjusting, lubing and sharpening.

48-hour turn around, or less. $8.00 per tool, plus tax.

SEMINAR: Spring Tips for Lawn Care, and Controlling Moss & Moles

Featuring Steve Groger, Jensen Distribution Services

Join Steve and learn tips and techniques for creating a beautiful and lush lawn.

SEMINAR: Native Plants: Combining Beauty with Water Conservation

Featuring Peggy Campbell, Horticulturist

Peggy will share her favorite native plants that add color and texture, thrive in NW gardens and attract wildlife. Discover how proper soil preparation, mulching and watering will help your plants grow, save water and reduce summer maintenance.

SEMINAR: Bamboo: Dispelling the Myths & Fears

Featuring Jay Keye, CPH & Molbak's nursery expert

Learn the real story behind frequently misunderstood bamboo. Jay will dispel the common myths and fears surrounding bamboo and share valuable advice about when, where and how to plant and appreciate the many different varieties of bamboo offered here in the NW.

Molbak's Spring Celebration
April 10-11, 11am-3pm

Join us as we welcome spring with expert-led seminars, helpful demonstrations, dazzling springtime color, and fresh ideas for your garden and home.

Featured speakers include: Lorene Edwards Forkner, Willi Galloway, Lucy Hardiman, and Jenny Perez.

More information to come.

MEET THE GROWER SEMINAR: Blueberries and their year-round interest in the Garden

Featuring Roanne Lavelle, Fall Creek Farm & Nursery, Inc.

Not only delicious and healthy, blueberries provide the garden with beauty each season of the year. Roanne will cover everything you need to know about blueberries, including the best varieties for the Pacific NW. She'll be sharing delicious blueberry recipes too!