Home owners in Snohomish open their private gardens for you to stroll through & enjoy. It is a great opportunity to see how others garden and to get new ideas to use in your own garden. This year’s tour offers 6 rural gardens on a self-guided tour that you may visit in any order. Proceeds from the event help fund the downtown hanging baskets, scholarships and youth education grants.


Now that we are into the heat of the PNW summer, I thought it would be fun to delve into the world of Hibiscus. When most gardeners close their eyes and think of the word Hibiscus, I would be curious to see what picture comes to mind. There are hundreds of…