2024 Classes
Cascade Water Alliance offers free gardening classes to help you have beautiful, healthy landscapes while using water efficiently.
Please click on the links below to register.
April 16, 2024, 7:00pm – Garden Resources for You! Panel Discussion with Tilth Alliance, Master Gardener Hotline, and King County Conservation District
April 23, 2024, 7:00pm – Nita-Jo Rountree – Planting Combinations
April 30, 2024, 7:00pm – Jessi Bloom – Ecological Garden Design 101
May 7, 2024, 7:00pm – Marianne Binetti Best Plants for Dirt Cheap Gardeners – Divide, transplant, prune and propagate your way to a better landscape for less money.
May 14, 2024, 7:00pm – Lisa Taylor – Growing Vegetables When Water is Scarce
May 17, 2024, 10:30am – Lisa Taylor – In-person at Bellevue Nursery presenting on Gardening for Pollinators; Creating a Pollinator Paradise
May 21, 2024, 7:00pm – Jack Guthrie – Rainwater Harvesting
Cascade Gardener Class Resources
Below are learning materials provided by Cascade Gardener presenters:
- Small Space Gardening
- Strategies for Veggie Gardening
- Color, Color, Color
- Indoor Growing
- Resources for First-Time Gardeners
- Favorite Northwest Plants
- Soil Squeeze and Soil Shake
- Getting Plants Off to a Great Start
- Growing Roses in the Pacific Northwest
- Fabulous Fifteen Vegetables
- Problem Plants
- Perfect Plant Combos
- Heavenly H Plants
- Sustainable Gardening
- Irrigation and Effective Moisture Management
- Native Plant Pollinators
- Binetti’s Best Plants
- Resilient Food Gardens
- Gardening for Pollinators
- Native Plants for a Changing Climate
- Perfect Plant Combos for Every Garden
Garden Walking Tours
Cascade offers free walking tours at local gardens led by gardening experts. Check back often or follow us on social media to learn about upcoming events.
Please click on the links below to register.
May 3, 2024, 11:00am – Walk and Talk with Jessi Bloom at Ferrel-McWhirter Park in Redmond
May 10, 2024, 11:00am – Walk and Talk with Jessi Bloom at Pine Lake Park in Sammamish
Irrigation Assessments
Cascade offers free irrigation assessments for large properties like parks, school grounds, commercial, multifamily, and homeowner associations.
Download the application here.
Helpful Links
- Bellevue Botanical Garden
- Redmond Conservation Garden
- Natural Lawn Care
- Northwest Native Plant Guide
- Washington Native Plant Society
- Great Plant Picks
Poison-Free Landscapes
- Puget Sound Partnership
- The Hazardous Wastemobile
- Greening your Shoreline, King County
- Lakeside Living, King County
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