Garden News & Landscaping Events

Verdure, Colleen’s blog at www.colleenmiko.wordpress.com features musings on plants, design, books and all things garden related, in addition to topics of personal interest such as insects, crafts, vintage home décor and green living.

FEBRUARY

Colleen is honored to present two seminars at the 2011 NW Flower & Garden Show:

Create a Buzz: Easy Steps to Attract Pollinators to your Garden
Can you imagine a world without berries and tomatoes? Chocolate and coffee? We wouldn’t have these and many of our dietary staples if it weren’t for the efforts of bees and other pollinators. Learn how to attract pollinators to your garden for better fruit and vegetable production and enjoy a flower-filled, environmentally friendly garden as a reward. You’ll get instructions for building nesting boxes for beneficial, native bee species, tips for selecting long-blooming plants with nectar and pollen rich flowers and learn how mulches impact solitary bees.
45 minute presentation for the DIY Stage.
Sunday, February 27, 2011, 2:15pm

FOR KIDS:
SHELLY THE SNAIL’S BIRTHDAY PARTY: You’re invited to help celebrate!
Join Shelly the Snail as she gets ready for her garden birthday party. Kids will learn how old she is by counting the whorls on her shell. She’s hoping for rain as she makes up plates of the plants and dirt she and her relatives the slugs love to eat. No escargot here! Shelly is nocturnal, so this is a party under the stars. Kids will learn to make an explorer’s kit of simple materials to find garden party guests in their own yards and to make a party hat out of leaves.
30 minute costume presentation for the Sprout Stage.
Saturday and Sunday, February 26th and 27th, 11:00 am

For more information on the show and seminars: www.gardenshow.com 

Colleen will be one of four guest bloggers on the NW Flower & Garden Show Blog during the show, sharing glimpses of plants, creative people and design ideas that strike her fancy. Check out her own blog the weekend before the show as she writes from the din and craziness of garden construction at the convention center.
http://www.mygardenblogs.com/NWblog/

MARCH

Look for the spring 2011 issue of WestSound Home & Garden Magazine. Colleen’s new articles: Join Forces with your Garden Allies: Steps for Attracting Beneficial Insects and Cultivate your Child’s Love for Gardening with simple ideas to get kids digging in the dirt. On the newsstand through June 30th.

APRIL

The Long Lake Garden Club in Port Orchard welcomes Colleen for her presentation Demystifying Garden Design on April 20th from 11-12 at the Manchester Library. Sight lines, symmetry, axis and balance…Colleen helps make sense of landscape design concepts and how they are used to make any garden stunning in a practical, affordable and personal way.

MAY

Shelly the Snail makes her second appearance of 2011 at the Backyard Wildlife Festival in Tukwila on Saturday, May 14th. Colleen will be doing her presentations Shelly the Snail’s Birthday Party—You’re Invited to Help Celebrate! and Create A Buzz: Easy Steps to Attract Pollinators to your Garden. The festival runs 9am to 3pm at the Tukwila Community Center - 12424 42nd Ave. S. – Tukwila. For more information:
http://www.backyardwildlifefair.org/  (206) 768-2822