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.


The kingdom of plants is filled with many desirable shrubs, including many old-fashioned forms and newer hybrids. Gardeners (including me) love many of the numerous old school selections while also embracing newer more modern forms. One of these plants, Weigelia florida, has been a proven performer in local gardens for decades, providing showy spring flowers, excellent…