Events & Workshops

SEMINAR:
Terrific Trees for the NW Landscape

Featuring Don Marshall, Landscape Designer, Instructor and Author

Discover the top performing deciduous and evergreen trees for our climate, how best to use them in landscape design and what to consider when selecting the perfect ornamental tree for your site. Learn Don’s expert tips on selecting, planting, pruning and staking.

SEMINAR: Enchanting Orchids

Featuring Rizaniño "Riz" Reyes, RHR Horticulture & Landwave Gardens

With rich fragrance, long-lasting blooms, and unusual colors and foliage, orchids have captured the hearts and imaginations of people for hundreds of years. Learn about the different varietal traits, and what you can do to keep these exotic beauties bursting with blooms. 

Northwest Flower & Garden Show

Be sure to stop by and visit us at booth #402. Garden Show tickets are available from any Molbak's cashier. 

SEMINAR & DEMO: Fresh Ideas
for Spring Everlasting Arrangements

Featuring Molbak’s Designer, Donna Daniels

Join Donna as she showcases the newest trends in spring stems, and creates lovely and unexpected everlasting arrangements. Gather inspiration and tips for creating your own spring arrangements.

INFORMAL Q & A: All About Roses

Seattle Rose Society members will be on-site with the answers you need.

SEMINAR & DEMO: Rose Pruning Basics

Featuring Molbak’s Rosarian and Former Seattle Rose Society President, John Harmeling

This is the perfect time to prune roses! Join John as he demonstrates the most effective pruning techniques for the most popular roses grown in the Northwest.

SEMINAR: Welcoming Roses
into Your Garden

Featuring Nita-Jo Rountree, Garden Designer, and Past President of the Northwest Horticultural Society

Roses – they’re not just for rose beds anymore!  Learn how to successfully incorporate a variety of roses into your mixed beds and landscape.  Nita-Jo will share garden design principles and how to apply them so you can include these beauties in your garden.

SEMINAR: Grow Your Own Fruit

Featuring Greg Giuliani, Member of the Seattle Tree Fruit Society

Now is the best time to plant fruit trees to ensure an abundant harvest for years to come. Join Greg and learn how to select the right fruit tree and variety for the right location and the importance of cross-pollination with a special emphasis on fruit tree favorites: apple, pear, plum and cherry. He’ll also share tips on how to successfully plant, stake and prune young trees, and basic first-year care. A short grafting demonstration will follow.

SEMINAR: Bountiful Berries

Featuring Larry Davis, King County Master Gardener

Dig in berry plants now and look forward to delicious in-garden snacking and months of fresh fruit juices and smoothies. Join Larry to learn basic planting, care, pruning and staking techniques. Discover which are the top producing and most flavorful varieties of raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, huckleberries and more.

SEMINAR & BOOK SIGNING: Seed Starting 101

Featuring Willi Galloway, freelance writer, creator of Digginfood.com and author of the new book: Grow. Cook. Eat: A Food-Lover’s Guide to Vegetable Gardening

Want more veggie-growing satisfaction for less money? Join Willi as she gives step-by-step instructions on how to start your own vegetables from seeds and learn which varieties she recommends for our cool, Pacific Northwest climate.  Book signing to follow.

SEMINAR: The Buzz about Orchard
Mason Bees

Featuring Missy Anderson, King County Master Gardener
and Mason Bee Farmer

Though less well-known than the honey bee, the hardworking, native orchard mason bee is an important crop pollinator. Join Missy as she shares fascinating facts about these gentle, non-stinging insects and explains how home gardeners can help them “bee” even more productive and have fun doing so.

SEMINAR & BOOK SIGNING:
The Best Low-Maintenance Edibles - 
Fruits, Veggies and Herbs for the Time Crunched

Featuring Andrea Bellamy, author of Sugar Snaps and Strawberries, blogging at www.heavypetal.ca

Join Andrea to learn which popular edibles will reward you with delicious food crops while requiring minimal care. Discover which varieties of fruits, berries, veggies and herbs are the easiest-to-grow in the NW and simple ways to improve your soil to help your plants thrive. Whether you plant your edibles in the ground or in containers, you’ll walk away inspired and armed with tips on how to grow a bumper crop with a small investment of time. Book signing to follow.

SEMINAR & BOOK SIGNING:
Landscaping for Privacy

Featuring Marty Wingate, Local Gardening Expert and Author of the new book Landscaping for Privacy: Innovative Ways to Turn Your Outdoor Space into a Peaceful Retreat

Make your yard the refuge you’ve always wanted it to be.  Learn Marty’s creative solutions to common landscape problems – e.g., hiding and disguising unwanted views inside and outside the garden by using trees and plants to create beautiful barriers, buffers and screens.  Book signing to follow.

MEET & GREET: Landscape Designers
at Molbak’s

Now is a great time to assess your garden and focus on an area that needs special attention. Whether you have a new garden; an overgrown garden; or a specific area that needs updating; a landscape designer can be tremendously helpful. Meet designers from local, hand-selected companies in a friendly, no-pressure environment. Hear about their specialties and learn what they can do for you. Participants include:  currie•french landscape design; Grina Landscape Design, LLC; In Harmony sustainable landscapes; MM Landscape Design, Inc.; and R. David Adams Associates, Inc.

SEMINAR: Spring Lawn Care and Controlling Moss & Moles

Featuring Ladd Smith, Co-owner, In Harmony sustainable landscapes

Preparations for a beautiful and lush lawn start now. Join Ladd and learn time-saving tips and techniques on natural lawn care. Got moss and moles? Walk away armed with ideas for controlling these garden problems.

SEMINAR: Spring into Color with Bulbs

Featuring Pat Roome, Pat Roome Landscape Design

Bulbs provide your garden with a year-round display of color, require minimal care, and return year after year.  Pat will identify which bulbs are hardy in our area, which to plant now for spring and summer color, and how to care for them.  Also learn tips on designing stunning containers over-flowing with bulbs, which varieties will grow best in pots, and how to keep them happy all season long.