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.
During the months of May and June one of the all-time favorite plants of local gardeners, the peony, is bursting into bloom. There are many excellent peonies available to utilize in our landscapes; including herbaceous cottage types in all sorts of colors (and varying fragrances) and larger growing tree peonies too. I would never scold anyone for growing either of these types (since I do as well), but I want to bring attention to another fabulous peony option… what is known as the intersectional or Itoh Peony.