Are you looking for a speaker for
your garden club or professional organization? I love
talking gardening — send me an e-mail:
marty@martywingate.com.
Sept. 16 - You will find me attending the
Miller
lecture, a free event that brings out all the gardeners
around. Hope to see you there.
Sept. 17 - I'll be shopping at the Northwest
Horticultural Society's fall plant sale.
Sept. 19 - Bring It Home is the topic for my talk at the
Northwest Perennial Alliance's annual meeting. Let's
talk garden travel.
Sept. 22 - Join Bob Lilly and me at the Washington Park
Arboretum's Graham Visitors Center as we talk about
bulbs - our favorites, how to plant, good bulb
companions. All to get ready for the Arboretum
Foundation's bulb sale on Oct. 3 and 4.
Oct. 19 - Small gardens are a big topic. This evening,
I'll be teaching a class at the Center for Urban
Horticulture, so sign up and bring photos and drawings
of your garden so we can problem-solve together.
When Marty met Sally.
Photo courtesy of Fran
Durner, senior photographer at the Anchorage Daily News, whose
garden blog is
Talk Dirt to Me.
Sally Field – Gardener and Actress
I had great fun interviewing Sally Field about her
love of gardening (the article appeared in the P-I Feb.
14;
read it here), and if that wasn’t enough, I got to
appear on stage with her at the Northwest Flower &
Garden Show, Feb. 23, where we talked about Gardening
for Good Health.
Sally gardens in the Malibu hills of Southern
California, a much tougher place than Seattle, but we
share some of the same fondness for plants, such as
Ceanothus and California poppies. I passed along a book
recommendation (Designing With Succulents, Debra Lee
Baldwin, Timber Press, 2007) and the name of a great
mail-order nursery —
Annie’s Annuals.
More Links
Bellevue Botanical Garden
Inland Empire Garden Club
Northwest Horticultural Society
Garden Writers
