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DEMONSTRATON GARDENS

Jenning's Park Garden

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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 Lime and Burgundy Garden , a hop scotch garden and "Thyme Out" chairs, a dwarf conifer garden, a cutting garden, kitchen garden, all American selections, vertical growing techniques, stacked vegetable gardening, meditation garden, hebe garden, ferns, heuchera and hostas, succulents and sedums herb garden and a new perennial beds.

Hours: Volunteers are available to answer questions, explain techniques, and help solve home garden problems each week on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday (May through September , except holidays) from 9-1.

Location: Jennings Park at 6915 Armar Road 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.
To arrange special tours during the summer months for schools or other groups call the WSU Extension Office, (425) 338-2400.

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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

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McCollum Park Demo Garden

600 128^th 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 (128^th St)
• Go East on 128^th 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".