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CALENDAR - Events, Lectures, Classes, Workshops, & Open Gardens
2025 Open Gardens Registration
MEMBERS ONLY
Sign up to open your garden for NPA in 2025! Registering to open your garden is a 2-step process:
Step 1 - Click the REGISTER button on this page and submit your name, email address, and phone number (use the email address associated with your membership).
Step 2 - You will immediately receive an email from NPA that includes a link to a Registration Form where you fill out information about your garden and list your open dates – this form can be saved and updated as often as needed.
Registration is open year-round - but note the following deadlines:
February 28th is the registration deadline to be listed in the printed/mailed version of the Open Gardens book. The book lists gardens open from May 1st through September 30th.
Please register a minimum of 3 weeks before your open date to allow NPA time to process your registration, mail your host packet, and advertise your event.
Click HERE for more details about registering to open your garden. Or contact us if you have questions or need help completing your registration - OpenGardens@northwestperennialalliance.org
Wednesday, April 2
1 pm to 2:00 pm
Savvy Side Yard Solutions
Presented by: Rebecca Sweet
Landscape designer and author Rebecca Sweet will demonstrate how you can transform a narrow side yard or small garden into a beautiful oasis. Using before and after photos, Rebecca explains how to create a garden with a unique style and purpose.
Rebecca Sweet is the author of the national best-selling book ‘Refresh Your Garden Design with Color, Texture and Form’ and ‘Garden Up! Smart Vertical Gardening for Small and Large Spaces’. She also shares her secrets to successful garden design in her column “Harmony in the Garden” in Horticulture magazine, as well as contributing articles to many popular garden publications. In her blog, Harmony in the Garden, Rebecca shares inside information about garden design, gardening tips, amusing observations, and how-to videos for both the novice and experienced gardener.
Members - FREE
Non-members - $15 (non-refundable unless cancelled by NPA)
This is an ONLINE presentation only. You must register to receive a Zoom link to watch this event LIVE, where questions can be asked of the presenter. A RECORDING of the presentation will be available to all active NPA members and non-member registrants until April 23, 2025.
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Growing Orchids - CANCELLED
10:30am-11:30am
Bellevue Botanical Garden, Aaron Center
Presented by Luis Blanco-Doring, NPA member and orchid enthusiast
Want to grow healthy, beautiful orchids and have them rebloom? Join us for this presentation explaining orchids, orchid culture and issues, and a demonstration on how to re-pot orchids. Each participant will receive an orchid from a local grower to repot during the workshop.
Please bring your scissors or pruners with you. NPA will provide all other materials. Handouts will be provided at event.
NPA Members - $25.00
Non-Members - $35.00
Class is limited to 40 participants. The fee for this class is non-refundable. If cancelled by NPA, you will receive a full refund.
Friday, April 25, 2025
One Day - Two Exquisite Gardens
Bloedel Reserve & Heronswood welcome NPA members!
Organized by Kathleen Bullivant
An Exclusive Day with 2 Garden Tours & Lunch for NPA members and guests
Members: $ 95
Non-member guests: $ 105
Limit 2 guests per member; price includes catered box lunch.
The fee for this event is non-refundable unless cancelled by NPA.
Come for a relaxing, inspiring day out visiting these two magnificent gardens. Each garden will welcome you and your guests for a guided tour with their horticultural teams. Both tours, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, will be 2 hours long, allowing a relaxed pace and time for questions. The gardens share the same gardening principles and strive to provide a welcoming haven where people can connect with nature while strolling through natural habitats.
SCHEDULE:
9:00 – 9:30 Arrive at your first garden 9:30 – 11:30 Tour the garden 11:30 – 12:00 Travel to Lunch Hub 12:00 – 1:30 Lunch and Speaker 1:30 – 2:00 Depart for second garden 2:00 – 4:00 Tour the garden
9:00 – 9:30 Arrive at your first garden
9:30 – 11:30 Tour the garden
11:30 – 12:00 Travel to Lunch Hub
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch and Speaker
1:30 – 2:00 Depart for second garden
2:00 – 4:00 Tour the garden
BLOEDEL RESERVE – is a 145-acre garden reserve on Bainbridge Island. It was the vision of Prentice and Virginia Bloedel, built over 30 years from 1951 – 1984. The Reserve is an uplifting place to stroll in Spring. Highlights of the tour will include a visit to the Moss Garden, Japanese Garden, and the Glenn, along with some glimpses behind the scenes.
HERONSWOOD – is operated and owned by the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe. The garden began in 1987 and consists of 15 acres displaying a vast array of plants from around the world. This garden sparkles in spring as new growth emerges. Enjoy seeing plantings you would love to have in your garden!
Windcliff Nursery will have plants for sale so empty out your trunk before you travel!!
LUNCH HUB – Enjoy a scrumptious catered box lunch provided by Field and Fire at the Village Green Community Center in Kingston, along with speakers from both gardens. This 7-year-old Community Center is nestled in a park setting and has parking, outdoor seating, and modern amenities for everyone to enjoy a relaxing break. Browse some local vendor tables before leaving for your afternoon garden.
The afternoon schedule resumes with a visit to the other garden. Both gardens are an easy drive within 20 minutes of the Village Green.
Space is limited, so early registration is encouraged. The deadline for registration is April 11, 2025. We will confirm by April 18th whether we are able to accommodate your selection of the preferred morning garden, or whether we have to switch you to the other one.
Up to 2 paying guests can accompany NPA members.
Extend your trip – On Saturday, local NPA members will open their gardens. More details to follow.
Sunday, April 27
Spring Plant Sale at Bellevue Botanical Garden
10 am to 1 pm
April is a great time to buy plants from a select group of local small nurseries and specialty growers who sell an amazing collection of hard-to-find and old-time favorite perennials, shrubs, ferns, grasses and more. Your support helps these growers thrive and prosper, and in return they can grow even more special plants for our gardens!
Plant vendors at this sale will be listed in the NPA e-newsletter prior to the sale.
This is a 'Farmer's Market Style' plant sale where you purchase plants directly from each seller - bring your own small wagon/cart to carry your purchases back to your car.
Visit the NPA Border after shopping!
Monday, May 5
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Picture Perfect Phone Photography webinar
Presented by: Grace Hensley
Unlock the potential of your smart phone camera! You will learn how to optimize settings, understand composition techniques, review photo organization methods and elevate your overall mobile photography skills. Use your new skills to take fantastic photos as you tour Open Gardens. Then enter your photos in the Open Gardens photo contest!
Grace Hensley is a Certified Professional Horticulturalist and Garden Photographer based near Seattle. She helps gardeners capture the beauty of their plants through photography, specializing in smartphone techniques, giving garden lovers inspiration. She speaks at garden clubs and horticultural events nationwide and is the former Regional Director of the Garden Communicators International Association; Member Garden Media Guild and the Professional Garden Photographers Association (UK).
Members - $5
Non-members - $15
The fee for this class is non-refundable. If cancelled by NPA, you will receive a full refund.
This is an ONLINE presentation only. You must register to receive a Zoom link to watch this event LIVE, where questions can be asked of the presenter. A RECORDING of the presentation will be available to all registrants until May 20, 2025.
Friday August 22 - Sunday August 24
Arts in the Garden Plant Sale at Bellevue Botanical Garden
Bellevue Botanical Garden
Friday, August 22, 12-5pm
Saturday, August 23, 10am-5pm
Sunday, August 24, 10am-3pm
Join NPA at this fun-tastic event! Buy plants from NPA and help support the Perennial Border. We will offer great plants from local growers. This is our main fundraiser for purchasing new border plants - please support us by stopping by!
Click HERE for details about this event, including a list of garden art vendors.
Saturday, September 6
Fall Plant Sale at Bellevue Botanical Gardens
Fall is the perfect time to plant! Buy plants from a select group of local small nurseries and specialty growers who sell amazing perennials, shrubs, ferns, grasses and more.
This is a Farmer's Market style plant sale where you purchase plants directly from each seller - bring your own small wagon/cart.
Plant Vendors at this sale will be listed in the NPA e-newsletter prior to the sale. The plant sale features plants from local growers.
The PARKING lot is often full - but additional parking is not far away - down Main Street.
Contact NPA: 425-647-6004
info@northwestperennialalliance.org
Mailing Address: PO Box 1034 Bellevue, WA 98009-1034
