Rain Garden Presentation at South Seattle Community College - Learn To Build Them Right

With all the problems going on in Ballard with the rain gardens installed last year, we're well cautioned to build them correctly the first time. This Friday evening, May 4th, SSCC's Landscape Horticulture and Continuing Education program is sponsoring a free presentation aimed at the do-it-yourselfer, called "Creating Rain Gardens: Capturing the Rain for Your Own Water-Efficient Garden."

The speaker, Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, is the author of a Timber Press book on rain gardens, and an avid gardener himself.  He co-founded the Greywater Guerrillas, and has led dozens of community-based workshops on rainwater harvesting and greywater reuse across North America. His book (same title as the talk) covers everything from rain barrels to simple living roofs, permeable patios, and other low-tech affordable ways to save water in the garden.

Details: Friday, May 4, 7:00 p.m.
At the Chan Education Center, South Seattle Community College (located at the north end of campus between the Arboretum and the Garden Center), 6000 16th Avenue SW, Seattle. Free of charge. (http://www.southseattle.edu/campus/map.htm). For more information, contact: Van Bobbitt.

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[Tom Golden]

Where,in Seattle, can I find the“Superbells” ‘Cherry Star” Petunias plants. It’s flower has a hot pink center with a yellow star. It was lighted in you 4.29.12 Sunday times article. Tom Golden- Sundries Nursery

[Valerie Easton]

Hi Tom,
'Cherry Star' is produced by Log House Plants in Cottage Grove, Oregon; you can go to their web page and see if it's available for order yet. If so, Log House delivers to nurseries in the Seattle area....
Val

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I regret that I was not able to join this free presentation by some of renowned gardeners in the planet. I just got involved with gardening when I stayed in my parent's house for a month. They moved when my brother and I transferred home in the city. Their new home is amazing because its close to nature that's why my mother relived her passion for gardening. She graduated agriculture in the University of Maryland but didn't get to pursue it when she married my father. Now, she's the one encouraging me to take gardening seriously.

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When you start to appreciate even the smallest kind of things, then you'll be feeling happy.