Special Sections - Garden Gala 2020

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Gala Garden Show

http:sequimgardenshow.com

More than 45 vendors, guest speakers, food, fundraising raffle & much more

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Admission supports numerous Soroptimist projects “A Ride Through Fields of Color,” by Melody Albertson

CANCELLED Soroptimist International of Sequim has decided to

cancel the Gala Garden Show this year. We want to do our part to protect the health of the community.

2020 COMMUNITY PARTNERS:

Welcome to the 2020 Gala Garden Show

by SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF SEQUIM

The 22nd Gala Garden Show is presented by Soroptimist International of Sequim, a group with almost 75 years of service to the community.

Tradition is one of the things that can be counted on when it comes to the Soroptimist Gala Garden Show.

Traditionally, it is on the third weekend in March and this year it is Saturday, March 21st and Sunday, March 22nd.

It’s the biggest gardening show on the Olympic

Peninsula. This two-day event brings together products and professional services of horticultural and garden-related businesses in a grand display at the Sequim Boys & Girls Club, 400 W. Fir Street in Sequim.

Traditionally, we have excellent vendors and it is the same this year, along with great speakers, fabulous food and an amazing array of raffle items.

Soroptimist International of Sequim is a nonprofit organization, and the annual Gala Garden Show is its main fundraiser.

SIS is committed to education, funding high

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school and continuing education scholarships, as well as the Live Your Dream Award and the Youth Community Service Award.

SIS also donates to First Teacher, Healthy Families of Clallam County, which includes Rose House (a shelter for victims of domestic violence), Sequim Community Aid and the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula – just to name a few.

Hold on to this special section with all the Gala Garden Show details.

For additional information about the show, visit sequimgardenshow.com.

Published by PENINSULA DAILY NEWS and SEQUIM GAZETTE peninsuladailynews.com | sequimgazette.com Peninsula Daily News: 305 W. First St., Port Angeles, WA 98362 | 360.452.2345 Sequim Gazette: 147 W. Washington St., Sequim, WA 98382 | 360.683.3311 Terry R. Ward, regional publisher • Eran Kennedy, advertising director Soroptimist Gala Garden Show 2020

GREAT GARDEN SHOW VENDORS

Airport Garden Center - Nursery, Garden Art, Metal Garden Theme Products, Pottery Alluvial Stone Nursery - Live Plants, Seeds, Dried Catnip, Edible Dried Flowers Beth Wright Designs - Garden Art Blooming Artichoke Herbary - Perennials, herbs, botanically themed appliqued textiles, herbal teas, herbal products Celia’s Gourmet Foods - Gourmet balsamic vinegar, olive oils and vinaigrette Clallam County Master Gardeners - Education Creative Design - Pottery/Ceramics Dave’s Metal Designs - Garden Art Dennis Cant - Artist - Metal Garden Themed Products Dungeness Gold - Gourmet Spice Blends & Sauces Emerald Greens Yardart - Garden Art & Metal Garden Themed Products Fleurish Lavender of Lost Mountain - Lavender products for bath, body & home, Glass and Pottery Products Fresh Hats - Love on Your Head - Hats Fullness of Joy Floral - Live Plants, Seeds/Bulbs, Garden Furniture Garden Chic - Decorative and functional art and gifts for home and garden Hot Flash Art - Garden Art and Glass with Garden Theme Ila’s Gourmet Condiments - Gourmet/Artisan farm to table artisan, gluten free jams, jellies, relish, spreads Jolene’s Watercolors - Fine Art Kepley’s Resonance Cards - Fine Art, Photography Links & Logs Fence Company – Fences, Gates and Hardscapes Mama Gnomes Best & Sara’s Rustic Wreaths - Garden Art, Garden themed indoor/ outdoor home décor

Manny’s Works - Live Plants, Garden Art, Imported Flower Potteries Mike’s Cedar Works - Garden Furniture Naturally Sooz - Leaf Pottery, Pottery/Ceramics & Garden Art Oh-Growup - Metal Garden Themed Products One Earth Botanical - Nursery Owens Gardens Air Plants - Live Plants Pacific Northwest Naturals - Plants, Cut Pussy Willows, Leg & Arm Cozys, Neck Warmers Peninsula Nursery - Nursery, Landscaping Service Port Townsend Garden Center - Nursery, Garden Furniture, Garden Art, Pottery/Ceramics Roji Home & Garden, Inc - Garden Art Roxann Van Wyk - Garden Art Sequim Bee Farm - Honey & honey products Sequim Prairie Garden Club - Plant displays, photos, Garden Club literature Sprouting Hope Greenhouse - Live Plants Studio Rynkiewicz - Garden Art, Glass with Garden Theme The Bamboo Nursery - Nursery The Co-Op Farm and Garden - Garden tools, hats, gloves, baskets and watering cans The Family Farm - Live plants, seeds, bulbs, pottery/ceramics Vonnie Voris, P. T. - Author of “How We Garden – Body-Saving Advice from a Physical Therapist” Whimsical Woods - Garden Art Wild Birds Unlimited - Bird Feeders & Houses, Clean Bird Feeding Products, Garden Furniture & Art Wilma’s Creations - Live Plants, Garden Art, Pottery, Spring Planters, Birdhouse Planters Winfield Designs - Metal Garden Art

FEATURED NEW VENDOR

“We have a lot of things for a lot of people.” Fatzinger theco-opfarmandgarden.com, or call 360-683-4111 during normal business hours. said. “If you have a project, we can help you out.”

by SHAWNA DIXSON, PENINSULA DAILY NEWS The Co-op is located at 216 E. Washington St. in The Garden Gala Show has a new vendor this year: Sequim. Visit theco-opfarmandgarden.com for more The Co-op Farm and Garden in Sequim. It will be information. You also can send email inquiries to info@ FEATURED RETURNING VENDOR replacing Lowell Tools, which had been at every show

by SHAWNA DIXSON, PENINSULA DAILY NEWS since 2010. Lowell and Sue Cordas of Lacey came every Pull up a chair … a beautifully hand-crafted, locally cut year, exclusively offering garden and yard tools for parand milled Western red cedar chair. While you’re at it, why ticipants to browse. not add in an outdoor ottoman and side table, or switch to This year, The Co-op is bringing a wide variety of proda rocker? How about a love-seat rocker? ucts to help make gardening tasks easier. Its booth will Mike’s Cedar Works has been a longstanding particiinclude small hand tools for weeding, digging and plantpant at the Garden Gala Show, bringing his most mobile ing, as well as long-handled tools, gloves, kneeling pads, outdoor furnishings to the Gala for the garden enthusiast rolling tool carts and Bolga baskets, which are hand-made community to admire. in Africa and are a nice, colorful addition to the home.

Mike Caldwell started building outdoor chairs as a hobby “We’re very excited to be a part of this event,” said Diane 30 years ago. Despite the widespread demand for his work, Fatzinger, employee of The Co-op. “The garden show is his prices have stayed low — to keep his work affordable really the highlight of spring.” for local customers — instead of raising prices to match The Co-op was founded in 1936 to provide farmers a similar products available in metropolitan stores. competitive source for their needs, ranging from farm ma“I just go out to the shop, build a fire and work on my chinery and equipment, to fuel and, eventually, feed, grain chairs.” Caldwell said. He builds for the fun of it and enjoys and animal supplies. Over the years, it transformed into a taking extra time finishing every detail. consumer-oriented cooperative, providing a wide range of Unlike store-bought adirondacks, these chairs are, “put products and excellent customer service. Now going into together to stay together,” Caldwell said. its 85th year, The Co-op has over 6,000 active members.

Another benefit of buying from this local hobbyist“I’ve been with The Co-op for just about 18 years,” Fatzturned-entrepreneur is that he can do custom orders. If inger said. “What I’ve seen is people love to shop local, love you’re tall, short, wide or petite, he can make a chair that our customer service, and love that they can come in and fits you perfectly. buy [what they need in one place].” The items they carry For additional information about Mike’s Cedar Works, remind one of a general store — garden supplies, large visit mikescedarworks.com or give him a call at 360-452and small animal products, hardware, pet food, toys for 7360. You also can stop by his booth at the Garden Gala the grandkids, old-fashioned soda and candy, Hallmark Show or the Port Angeles Farmer’s Market. greeting cards and gifts.

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Ticket Sales Fund Educational Opportunities Soroptimist International is a global volunteer organization that provides women and girls with access to the education and training they need to achieve economic empowerment. Here in Sequim, the funds we raise at the Gala Garden Show help fuel that effort. This is the story of how your admission fee helped change a life: Soroptimist International of Sequim (SIS) understands that one of the most effective means to promote women in our society is through education, which is why we fund numerous scholarships and awards.

As a past recipient of the Continuing Education Scholarship, I know first-hand the difference that these programs make.

I came from a very low-income family which had no means to pay for a college education. I began working in my late teens before I even finished high school. Over the years I built a small landscaping business, often participating in the Gala Garden Show.

Then, in my late twenties, I decided to take the leap and finish my GED and apply for college. I still had very little means to fund such a venture and knew that I would be heavily reliant on scholarships.

I applied for and received the Continuing Education Scholarship from Soroptimist International of Sequim twice while attending university. The awards helped me cover costs for tuition and school materials, and, at times, basic living essentials.

But the scholarship wasn’t just about the money, it was also an award of confidence from a community that believed in me and what I was doing, and it meant the world to me.

After graduating with a degree in Environmental Sciences, I returned to Sequim. I now operate my landscape construction business with a clearer focus on

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Master Gardeners for helping our garden and children grow.

Jennifer’s Garden Tip Tall Raised Beds!

If you have been gardening in short raised beds constructed of treated lumber, consider building them up to a comfortable height so you can eliminate bending down all the time. Add a wide top sill for sitting on while gardening. You can also consider using higher quality materials, like corrugated steel and locally sourced Western Red-Cedar.

About the cancellation

The Governor has declared a sate of Emergency in Washington because of the Coronavirus. The Soroptimist Club has made the hard decision to cancel our 22nd Annual Gala Garden Show. We have been fortunate to have lots of people attend in the past, and are concerned that the crowds would make transmission of the virus likely.

Please support our vendors and advertisers. They environmentally sustainable practices and am working have excellent products and we recommend them. towards greater participation with local habitat restoraThe Gala Garden Show is the major fundraiser for tion organizations.

Soroptimist International of Sequim. Cancelling this Upon my return, I also immediately joined SIS and show will make it harder for us to support other comam working to give back to the community through our munity clubs. We pass on the funds raised at the show programs. I currently chair the Continuing Education to ten community organizations. If you would like to Scholarship committee and am thrilled to be the one help us support scholarships, awards and help women now writing the letters of congratulations to our winand girls live their dream, consider sending in a small ners. donation. Send donations to: Jennifer Weir Owner of Good Earth

Gala Garden Show P.O. Box 2076 Sequim, WA 98382

Blooming this Year A number of wonderful container gardens planted by Soroptimist members will be available. Get there early to claim one of these dazzling heralds of Spring!

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D E L L E C AN 22ND ANNUAL SOROPTIMIST

Gala Garden Show Speakers SUNDAY, MARCH 22

SATURDAY, MARCH 21

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11 A.M. - 12 P.M. “BERRIES FOR ALL”

Presented by Jeanette Stehr-Green

DANFORD

NESBITT

WILLIAMS

10 A.M. - 11 A.M. “EXPERT PANEL: ASK YOUR LOCAL MASTER GARDENER”

Presented by Chris Barton, Jan Danford, Muriel Nesbitt, Audreen Williams

The panel members are WSU-certified Clallam County Master Gardeners, and each one has different specialties and interests.

They will welcome questions from the audience on any gardening topic, answer what they can and direct the audience to helpful online resources.

Growing and eating berries are among the joys of living on the Olympic Peninsula.

In this presentation you’ll get a quick primer on the four cultivated berries commonly grown in PNW gardens: strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries.

STEHR-GREEN Stehr-Green will share tips for a successful harvest and creative ideas for growing berries in a berry patch (for a sizable harvest), in the landscape, or in pots.

FEATURED GUEST SPEAKER

1 P.M. - 2 P.M. “PACIFIC NORTHWEST GARDENING MONTH-BY-MONTH”

Christina Pfeiffer, author, speaker, horticulture educator, ISA Certified Arborist, leader of landscape management efforts at the Holden Arboreteum and the Washington Park Arboretum.

We all want beautiful gardens but what do we have to do each 11:15 A.M. - 12:15 P.M. month to have a lovely garden all year?

“SMART, SIMPLE, AND FRUGAL VEGETABLE GARDENING Presented by Bob Cain

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An expert gardener, scientist, and frugal Scotsman, Bob Cain can help new residents and seasoned gardeners plan and grow a great PNW vegetable garden on a budget.

He will discuss right size/right place with ideas on different types of garden arrangements, new varieties to try, soils, and ways to grow more exotic vegetables.

There will be time at the end for questions.

1 P.M. - 2 P.M. “WHO, WHAT, WHERE OF PRUNING” Presented by Keith Dekker

DEKKER

Can your plants and trees benefit from pruning? This overview of effective pruning will give the home gardener guidelines on seasonal pruning, types of pruning cuts and mistakes to avoid.

There will be time for some tool or plant specific questions following the talk. Bring samples.

2:15 P.M. - 3:15 P.M. “HARDY SUCCULENTS FOR THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST”

PFEIFFER

All presentations are free of charge for Gala Garden Show attendees.

The fee to enter the show is $5 each day for adults, children 12 and younger are free and must be accompanied by an adult.

Tickets can be purchased at the door each day of the event.

NEW DUNGENESS NURSERY

GET THE START ON SPRING

Presented by Susan Kalmar

Don’t wait to call our landscape designer for a free garden Walk about

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COME VISIT OUR BEAUTIFUL FRUIT & FLOWERING TREES!

Hardy succulents can be an awesome and easy addition to a PNW landscape if you pick the right ones.

Susan Kalmar will discuss popular species, the care and propagation of succulents and how they are affected by the local climate zone and micro-climates.

There will be plants to examine, a planting demonstration, and time for questions at the end.

360-681-0132 • Mon. - Sat. 9-5 • Sun. 10-4 • Nursery is open all year!

4911 Sequim Dungeness Way (in beautiful downtown Dungeness)

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Christina Pfeiffer offers a practical guide to the art and science of gardening with the seasons.

Plants and nature don’t live by a written calendar, but according to seasonal cues of light, temperature, and moisture patterns. This talk will explore how to stop battling the garden and how to recognize and use benchmarks in the growth cycle to tap into the natural energy of each season.

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ABOUT THE SHOW’S SPEAKERS: Clallam County Master Gardeners will provide expert advice to Gala Garden Show attendees.

Below you will find a short biography for each Clallam County Master Gardener making a presentation at the 2020 Gala Garden Show.

For their best gardening tips, check page 7.

popular gardening speaker.

She enjoys teaching others about gardening and writes articles for both the Peninsula Daily News and the Sequim Gazette. Stehr-Green also participates in a monthly gardening call-in program on KONP.

CHRIS BARTON

Audreen Williams has just been awarded the 2019 Clallam County Master Gardener of the Year! She also received the award in 2014. She modestly says she shares the awards, so she is only a co-recipient.

She is an advocate for home gardening and garden education. Her favorite Master Gardener volunteer activities occur at the Port Angeles 5th Street Community Garden, where she oversees the Master Gardener’s vegetable plots, assists the 4-H Garden Club and coordinates the popular Saturday Garden Walks. The walks are held April through September on every second Saturday.

Chris Barton, a Master Gardener since 2016, came to the program as a Professor of Biology. Since becoming a Master Gardener, Barton has used her science background to adapt her gardening skills to the micro-climates that are prevalent on the Olympic Peninsula.

Barton’s work as the co-manager of the Cottage Garden area at the Woodcock Demonstration Garden in Sequim has helped inform her views on water management and pest management.

AUDREEN WILLIAMS

BOB CAIN

Bob Cain has been a Master Gardener since 2009 and has served on the Master Gardener Foundation, worked as General Manager at Woodcock Demonstration Garden and has been a valued member of the Master Gardener training staff since 2011.

With 41 years of experience growing vegetables in Scotland, Ireland, Colorado and Washington and a PHD in Chemistry, he takes a scientific approach to gardening.

He contributes regularly to the Sequim Gazette, KSQM radio and gives many local presentations.

JAN DANFORD

After teaching overseas for 23 years, Jan Danford moved to Sequim in 2013 and went right back to school to become a Master Gardener.

She was awarded Intern of the Year in 2013 and hasn’t slowed down since. Danford is currently the Chair of the Woodcock Demonstration Garden.

Danford’s current passion is getting children involved with gardening through Master Gardener programs at the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula and the Master Gardener Youth Enrichment Program.

KEITH DEKKER

Keith Dekker has been a horticulturist for more than 42 years. The last 27 of those years have been focused on comprehensive residential landscapes in the Pacific Northwest.

He is currently the President of the Master Gardener Foundation and has his own business specializing in fine pruning.

As a Master Gardener and active volunteer with Plant Amnesty, he contributes to the community by teaching classes and giving talks to promote sustainable gardening.

SUSAN KALMAR

Susan Kalmar has been a Master Gardener since 2017 and holds an AA degree in Ornamental Horticulture. She has many years of experience managing a large retail greenhouse and a passion for succulents, indoors and out.

Kalmar tends the succulent garden at the Woodcock Demonstration Garden where she likes to experiment with different plants.

MURIEL NESBITT

Muriel Nesbitt, a retired geneticist, is a proven educator who taught biology for 35 years at the University of California San Diego. From 2009 to 2012 she was the Master Gardener Coordinator and remains a leader, teaching courses, giving lectures and sharing her knowledge.

Nesbitt’s current interests include using science and experience in her own garden to grow clean, nutritious food and flowers for the bees.

JEANETTE STEHR-GREEN

Jeanette Stehr-Green is a berry enthusiast and grows strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and blueberries in her home garden.

She has been a WSU-certified Clallam County Master Gardener since 2003 and a

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Special Guest Speaker is a Top Selling Author with a Vocation, Hobby and Passion for Horticulture The Gala Garden Show’s keynote speaker is Christina Pfeiffer, co-author of top selling “Pacific Northwest Month-by-Month Gardening,” Pfeiffer will discuss the essential tasks we need to complete in the garden month by month. Her approach is to highlight sustainable and practical techniques that create greater results for less effort. She believes if garden practices are in sync with what nature is already doing, then gardening is a journey and not a battle.

Christina Pfeiffer has always been a gardener. As part of a gardening family. she helped her dad grow vegetables, mowed the lawn and generally spent time outdoors. She took a horticulture elective twice in high school. When the elms in her neighborhood in Michigan were hit by Dutch Elm disease, that sparked a further interest in trees and arboriculture.

She led landscape management efforts at the Holden Arboreteum and the Washington Park Arboretum. Pfeiffer has taught courses in pruning, arboriculture, and landscape management at Edmonds and South Seattle Community Colleges, and at the University of Washington. She holds degrees in horticulture from Michigan State and the University of Washington, and is an ISA Certified Arborist.

In private life, Pfeiffer has a plot at a community garden where she grows things she likes to eat — particularly asparagus and strawberries. She also raises leeks and artichokes because they have blooms that are good for attracting pollinating insects.

Christina Pfeiffer can find the good in anything in the garden--ground beetles and daddy long legs eat slug eggs, moles show that your garden has plenty of good worms and their tunnels help aerate your garden. She says “Capture nature’s energy — place your plants so they can grow with the least intervention.”

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Sequim Fresh Catering to deliver tasty soups, meals and treats to hungry attendees in the show’s popular Garden Cafe

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Paulette and Rick Hill, owners of Sequim Fresh, will bring the makings for the culinary pleasures served in the Garden Café at the 22nd annual Gala Garden Show.

The café will be open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days of the show.

On Saturday, the café will feature white bean chicken chili and a hearty vegan vegetable soup, along with chicken pasta salad and rolls. On Sunday, beef barley mushroom or a hearty vegan vegetable soup will be offered, along with chicken pasta salad and rolls.

Sweet delights will be available along with coffee by Rainshadow Café and Rainshadow Coffee Roasters, as well as tea, lemonade and bottled water.

Fees vary for food and beverages by selection.

Great Gardening Tips from the Experts

Christina Pfeiffer: Use a coarse organic mulch (like partially decomposed leaves, chunky plant parts and wood chips) to develop a healthy drought resistant garden.

Chris Barton: Take advantage of our mild climate on the Peninsula and plant so there is always something growing or in bloom 12 months of the year.

Bob Cain: In Sequim’s warm dry summers, drip irrigation of vegetables is more efficient and will cause less disease issues as well as reducing your water bill.

Jan Danford: The time to think about where you would like more spring color is in the spring just as bulb season is finishing. To prevent digging where you already have spring bulbs, mark new planting areas with an attractive river rock.

Keith Dekker: To keep from over-planting a new bed of shrubs, space them apart, using their mature size as a guide. You will save money, it will look better, and you will have to prune less.

Susan Kalmar: Follow the three P’s: 1) Pick your plants: choose plants suited to your climate and space. 2) Plan your garden: lay out your garden ideas on paper. 3) Prepare your soil: healthy well drained soil is essential to success.

Jeanette Stehr-Green: Use nets to protect blueberries and strawberries against birds. Install netting two to three weeks before the fruit matures.

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Audreen Williams: Pick up a Master Gardener Events Brochure and plan on attending workshops and lectures. https://clallammgf.org or https://extension.wsu.edu/ clallam/mg/ Wednesday, March 18, 2020

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