Cascade Gardener

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.

Small Space Gardening

April 1 – Lisa Taylor – Small Space Gardening

April 4 – Lisa Taylor – IN-PERSON at Gray Barn Nursery in Redmond – The Spaces Between: How to Sneak Edible Plants into Your Landscape

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

Irrigation & Soil Health

May 20 – Jessi Bloom – Hydrological Literacy: Rain water collection, Irrigation + more!

May 22 – IN-PERSON at McAuliffe Park in Kirkland – Hands-On Learning on Drip Irrigation

May 27 – Lisa Taylor – Cool Tools and Hot Tips About Watering Wisely

May 30 – Erica Browne – IN-PERSON at Bellevue Nursery – Your Best Tomato Year

Laying the Groundwork for Deep Roots

June 3 – Peggy Campbell – Establishing Plants for the Dry Season Cascade Gardener Presents Peggy Campbell!

June 5 – IN-PERSON at McAuliffe Park in Kirkland – Hands on Learning on Composting Cascade Gardener In-person at McAuliffe Park in Kirkland

June 6 – IN-PERSON at Gray Barn Nursery – Seven Ways to Water Wisely Cascade Gardener Presents Lisa Taylor In-Person!

June 10 – Ladd Smith – Soil Health/Mulch Cascade Gardener Presents Ladd Smith!

June 13 – Lisa Taylor – IN-PERSON at Bellevue Nursery – Great Watering Tools That Save Water and Get the Job Done! Cascade Gardener Presents Lisa Taylor In-Person!

June 17 – Lisa Taylor – HOA HELP!!  A trip through the new HOA landscape and irrigation guide Cascade Gardener Presents Lisa Taylor!

June 24 – Erica Brown Grivas, Zoooooom!, – Garden Here Now: Climate-Ready Gardening for Resilient Beauty Cascade Gardener Presents Erica Browne Grivas on Zoooooom!

Cascade offers free walking tours at local gardens led by gardening experts. Click the link below to register, and follow us on social media to learn about upcoming events.

Garden Walking Tours

June 27 – Jessi Bloom – Walk and Talk with Jessi Bloom through the Redmond Watershed Cascade Gardener Presents Jessi Bloom!

Below are learning materials provided by Cascade Gardener presenters:

• Container Gardens for Food and Flavor
• How to Sneak Edibles into your Landscape
• Small Space Gardening: Growing More on a Tiny Footprint
• 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

Cascade offers free irrigation assessments for large properties like parks, school grounds, commercial, multifamily, and homeowner associations.

• 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

Climate

• Drought Monitor
• NOAA Precipitation Outlook