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.


I often chuckle each November (and now even in October) as I am berated with the daily Christmas advertisements, seemingly earlier and earlier each year. On my phone, on the TV, in the papers, on the radio stations, via email – literally everywhere. So here I am (my sincere apologies), talking about Christmas in November! Please find some…