Join Sunnyside Nursery this year at Sorticulture, at our retail booth & at one of our talks!
Sorticulture is a three-day outdoor festival that celebrates the best parts of Pacific Northwest outdoor living. Hosted in the seaside city of Everett, WA, Sorticulture is the premier festival for garden art, local plants and flowers and handmade outdoor products. There is FREE admission, a great lineup of artists & vendors (including US!), excellent bars and restaurants as well as a few snack vendors AND classes by us & THE Ciscoe Morris, as well as some great music acts lined up on the Sunnyside Nursery Garden Stage this year!
In 2021, Sorticulture was moved to Downtown Everett to meet the state's COVID guidelines for outdoor events. At the time, the intention was to move the festival back to Legion Park in 2022. However, vendors and festival goers alike preferred the new downtown location; therefore, we will continue the event downtown on Colby Avenue in 2022.
The downtown location offers the following benefits:
Guests do not need to take a shuttle to get to the event and parking is ample and free on the weekends
Better accessibility for folks with limited mobility
Simple, drive-up package pickup for guests and easier load-in for vendors
Walking distance to local attractions, shopping, dining, museums and hotels
Much-needed economic support for small brick and mortar businesses and local restaurants
As this glorious PNW summer weather continues, let us continue delving into the world of Hydrangeas. It is time for episode three, the grand finale of the Hydrangea trilogy… at least for the year 2025. In the last couple of weeks we have talked Hydrangeas for partial shade (Big-Leaf or Hydrangea macrophylla cvs) and others for a bit more sun like Oakleaf types (Hydrangea quercifolia cvs) and Smooth types (Hydrangea arborescens cvs). Now we get to talk about one of the most useful species for sunny gardens, Hydrangea paniculata, or what we call Panicle Hydrangeas…