2025 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.
Winter Series Part II: Turf Removal
February 4 – Lisa Taylor – Turf Removal 101, Part 1
February 11 – Karen Chapman – Creative Alternatives to the Classic Lawn
February 18 – Lisa Taylor – Turf Removal 101, Part 2
February 25 – Lisa Taylor – Removing Lawn for a Kitchen Garden
Spring Series Part I: Small Space Gardening
March 18 – Jessi Bloom – Small Space Gardening
March 25 – Karen Chapman – Small Garden: Big Impact
March 27 – IN-PERSON at McAuliffe Park in Kirkland – Hands on Turf Removal 101
Spring Series Part II: Small Space Gardening
April 1 – Lisa Taylor – Small Space Gardening
April 15 – Nita-Jo Rountree – Small Space Gardening
April 22 – Marianne Binetti – Small Space Gardening
April 25 – Lisa Taylor – IN-PERSON at Bellevue Nursery – Growing Veggies
April 29 – Sue Goetz – Easy Container Gardens for Food and Flavor
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.
Cascade Gardener Class Resources
Below are learning materials provided by Cascade Gardener presenters:
- Small Garden: Big Impact
- Selecting & Establishing Plants for a Changing Climate
- Putting in a Kitchen Garden
- Ripping Out Your Lawn and Putting in a Garden, Part I
- 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
- Growing Vegetables When Water is Scarce
- Establishing Plants to Withstand Summer’s Dry Season
- Favorite Gardening Tools
- Everlasting Harvest – Year-Round Edible Gardening
- Pops of Color
Irrigation Assessments
Cascade offers free irrigation assessments for large properties like parks, school grounds, commercial, multifamily, and homeowner associations.
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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