Greenwood TrueValue Hardware (7201 Greenwood Ave N) has flanked its doors with banks of summer-blooming bulbs and corms like lilies, onions and rhubarb to delight your nose, make your eyes water and your lips purse.  Makes me think the buyer must be a skilled gardener.
Since I’m a cautious type, I might wait to plant a [...]

Sustainable Green Lake has put out a call for volunteers interested in participating in Spring into Bed, “Seattle’s first annual city-wide food garden building event.”  Spring into Bed is scheduled for Saturday, May 8th, 2010.
From Sustainable Green Lake:
The vision embodies food justice and greater access to healthy, fresh edibles; investing in our local food system; [...]

Fecal Fest is here. If you want to purchase large quantities of the “famous” Zoo Doo, send a postcard to the zoo between March 5th and 20th.
Send a standard postcard to:
Zoo Doo
Woodland Park Zoo
601 N 59th St
Seattle, WA 98103
Include the following info:

Name
Day/evening phone numbers
Preference: Zoo Doo or Bedspread
Amount you’d like to purchase (anything from a [...]

If last weekend’s warm weather has your fingers itching to get digging, these precocious plant sales are here in March to enable, uh, I mean help you:
South Seattle Community College Landscape Horticulture Program Plant Sale
Thursday, March 4 and Saturday, March 6, 2010 from 11:00am to 3:00pm
More information: srafanelli@sccd.ctc.edu or 206-764-5323. Come in & support SSCC [...]

The Green Seattle Partnership is holding a training on March 13, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., for community members interested in taking a leadership role in forest restoration.  Contact Andrea Mojzak at andream@cascadeland.org or 206-905-6920 for more information.

The Green Seattle Partnership offers the opportunity to make real positive change by volunteering in your local parks. [...]

The Seattle Rose Society will host its annual rose pruning demonstration next Saturday, February 27, noon-3 pm, at Woodland Park Rose Garden.  The event is free.
From the Woodland Park Zoo:

Need tips on pruning roses, using proper tools and more? Come to the Woodland Park Rose Garden for the annual rose pruning demonstration hosted by the [...]

As the Year of the Tiger dawns, it seems an auspicious time to assess our gardens’ Feng Shui.  Betcha didn’t know you could do that.  Not only can you do so, but Feng Shui experts say you must  – to keep happiness and prosperity flowing to your door in the form of positive life energy, [...]

Green Lake Summer Scenes to Blast your Winter Blahs
Our response to color is so primal, personal and immediate, that it obviously plays a huge role in determining your garden’s character.
Here are some illustrations from Green Lake gardens and tips to get you thinking about ways to use color to your garden’s best advantage.
In Seattle, the [...]

Look out, Old Man Winter, Spring is sneaking up on you. (Where are you anyway? Cabo?)  All over Green Lake, signs of spring are bustin’ out with brio.  Precocious young cherry trees are sending out exploratory blossoms. Hairy magnolia buds are swelling. Intrepid stout daylily shoots are making an appearance. And, most exciting of all, [...]

If you have seen celebrity naturalist David Mizejewski from National Wildlife Federation on any of his regular radio or television appearances—including the Today Show, Martha Stewart, HGTV and Animal Planet—you know he is committed to making the world a better place for wildlife. And now he is coming to the zoo to show you how [...]