San Juan Island Garden Club is Having Fun (Again)
Posted July 24, 2014 at 5:36 am by Tim Dustrude
Here’s a note from Dot Vandaveer about the Garden Club’s recent excursion…
The San Juan Island Garden Club sponsored an excursion on July 12 to visit four of the six gardens on the Whatcom Horticultural Society Annual Garden Tour. We enjoyed a terrific day on a comfortable bus with featured gardens all over the Bellingham area (several of which were on Lake Whatcom).
All were interesting and breathtaking! We learned that biochar, Neptune’s Harvest fertilizer and several other organic systems are effective in producing fantastic produce and landscaping that is self-sustaining and organic. (Just an aside….)
Our tour guide/bus driver ushered us to an exquisite, little-known garden known as Big Rock Garden. There is where we lunched, strolled and enjoyed the gorgeous sculptures that are tastefully placed in and among the landscape. By this time, we had enjoyed three gardens on the tour and had one more to treat ourselves to before heading to Anacortes to meet the 2 pm ferry home.
Please join us for our upcoming tours in September to the beautiful Skagit Island Demonstration Gardens in Mount Vernon; December 6 (to the Bellevue Arboretum to enjoy the Holiday Lights), and April to the La Conner Flats for High Tea and a tour of their wonderful gardens. We always have a great time and learn a great deal from our ventures. The Garden Club is committed to keeping these tours affordable, interesting, and educational (did I mention, fun)?
Please stay tuned for our activities at www.sjigardenclub.weebly.com or call Vonnie Harold at 378-6250 or Dot Vandaveer at 378-8306 for more information.
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For those, like me, who want to keep up with these trips but couldn’t get the [email protected] to work, the garden club’s website is http://sjigardenclub.weebly.com/
I look forward to future trips.
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