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DEMONSTRATON
GARDENS
Jenning's Park Garden
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a Virtual Tour
WSU Master Gardeners maintain an extensive Demonstration garden
in Marysville. The garden features both permanent and annual garden
beds which showcase a wide variety of ornamentals, flowers, vegetables,
herbs, and fruits. Permanent garden areas encompass many theme gardens
including a mature English Cottage Garden, a Medieval Knot Garden,
a Medicinal Herb Garden, an Enabling Garden, a Rose Garden, a Northwest
Native American Garden, an extensive Grass Garden, a Waterwise (drought
tolerant) Garden as well as several other beds with seasonal interest.
Many useful gardening techniques are demonstrated throughout the garden.
Hours: Volunteers are available to answer questions,
explain techniques, and help solve home garden problems each week
on Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday (May through September
, except holidays) from 10AM to 2PM.
Location: Jennings Park at 7027
51st Ave NE in Marysville.
Directions: Take exit 199 from I-5; drive east 3/4
of a mile on 4th Street; turn left on 47th. Continue 1/2 mile, bearing
right at the Y; the park is on the right.
Map
to Jennings Park Tours: : The Demonstration
Garden is open year-round for self-guided tours. Each garden area
has a free, explanatory brochure.
To arrange special tours during the summer months for schools or other
groups call the WSU Extension Office, (425) 338-2400.
Master Gardeners will also be presenting a series of free mini-lectures
and workshops at the garden during the summer. Watch this page for
subjects, dates and times.
Evergreen Arboretum and Gardens
146 Alverson Blvd
Everett, WA
Master Gardeners designed, planted and continue
to maintain the perennial borders in the Evergreen Arboretum at Legion
Memorial Park in Everett. The garden area consists of a traditional
border garden as well as theme gardens such as shade garden, scent
garden, and exotics. This project was developed to encourage the public
to increase their knowledge of plants and how to care for them. Volunteers
are available to answer questions from the public while working in
the garden.
- Take Exit #195 (Marine View Dr) on I-5
- Go Left on E. Marine View Dr
- Follow around under Hwy #529, until road becomes W. Marine
View Drive
- Past the Golf Course entrance, Take Left onto Alverson Blvd.
- Take another Left into the park.
Map to Legion
Demo Garden
Julia V. Morris Centennial Demo Garden
(Across from Boys n’ Girls Club)
In 1999 a group of Monroe residents invited Master Gardener help in
creating a garden to serve the Sky Valley Food Bank. In its second harvest
season the garden provided over a ton of fresh corn, lettuce, peppers,
beans, tomatoes, squash, etc. to the food bank. The Senior Center and
Boys and Girls Club are involved, but most of the work has been done
by community volunteers.
- Take Hwy #2 (Steven’s Pass) Eastbound
- Turn Right on Fryelands Blvd
- Where it Deadends, Go Left on 164th at the traffic circle
- Go East on 164th (W. Main Street)
- Past the Middle School to Village Way
- Turn Right
- Garden is on the Corner of Village Way and the River
Park Road.
McCollum Park Demo Garden
600 128th St SE
Everett, WA 98208
MG Volunteers have transformed the grounds around our office at McCollum
Park into gardens. A portion has been planted as a Native Landscape
while another area shows adapted plants that are easy to care for and
relatively trouble-free. We have a low water use section and are working
on our collection of groundcovers.
- Take I-5 to Exit #186 (128th St)
- Go East on 128th St about ½ mile
- Turn into McCollum Park located on right side of street
- Proceed South in the park past the pool and ball fields.
Map to McCollum
Park. The Demo Garden is at the curve in the "park road".
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