Topic: "Color Though the Year; Great All-Season Gardens from Flowers and Foliage, Stems and Bark"
Gardens shouldn't only be about summer displays. Your garden can look good in all seasons with careful plant choice
and thoughtful combinations. Come and see what you can do! Marty's talk will cover "must have", hard-working plant selections that provide interest during multiple seasons.
Books/Plants for Sale at Event: Landscaping for Privacy - $20 cash or check
Gardens shouldn't only be about summer displays. Your garden can look good in all seasons with careful plant choice
and thoughtful combinations. Come and see what you can do! Marty's talk will cover "must have", hard-working plant selections that provide interest during multiple seasons.
Books/Plants for Sale at Event: Landscaping for Privacy - $20 cash or check
Speaker Profile: Marty Wingate
Marty Wingate is a Seattle-based writer and speaker about gardens and travel. She is the author of the Potting Shed Mysteries, about Pru Parke, an American who moves to England in hopes of becoming the head gardener at an historic English garden and gets tangled up in a murder investigation wherever she goes. The publishing date of the first book, The Garden Plot, TBA. Her new how-to gardening book is Landscaping for Privacy (Timber Press, December 2011).
Martys garden articles appear in a variety of publications, including Fine Gardening, American Gardener, Country Gardens, and Gardening How-to. She is a weekly guest on the Greendays segment of Weekday on KUOW (94.9 FM), Seattles NPR station. Marty and her colleagues on Greendays won a 2010 Silver Trowel award from the Garden Writers Association for on-air talent.
Marty has a masters degree in urban horticulture from the University of Washington, and is a member of Sisters in Crime, the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, and the Garden Writers Association, as well as the Arboretum Foundation, the Northwest Horticultural Society, and the Royal Horticultural Society. She leads garden tours to European and North American destinations. Her Web site is: www.martywingate.com. Follow her on Facebook.
Martys garden articles appear in a variety of publications, including Fine Gardening, American Gardener, Country Gardens, and Gardening How-to. She is a weekly guest on the Greendays segment of Weekday on KUOW (94.9 FM), Seattles NPR station. Marty and her colleagues on Greendays won a 2010 Silver Trowel award from the Garden Writers Association for on-air talent.
Marty has a masters degree in urban horticulture from the University of Washington, and is a member of Sisters in Crime, the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, and the Garden Writers Association, as well as the Arboretum Foundation, the Northwest Horticultural Society, and the Royal Horticultural Society. She leads garden tours to European and North American destinations. Her Web site is: www.martywingate.com. Follow her on Facebook.
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Snohomish County Master Gardener Foundation
425-357-6010
Mail checks to:
SCMGF
P.O. Box 3721
Arlington, WA 98223
Email: SNOMGFoundation@yahoo.com
Web site: www.SNOMGF.org
Snohomish County Master Gardener Foundation
425-357-6010
Mail checks to:
SCMGF
P.O. Box 3721
Arlington, WA 98223
Email: SNOMGFoundation@yahoo.com
Web site: www.SNOMGF.org
