SATURDAY, March 21, 2026

10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Landscape Dos and Don’ts – Less headaches, more enjoyment of your home landscape.

Keith Dekker, Master Gardener

Adding new plants to your home landscape? Trying to figure out when and how to prune the plants you already have? Come learn from someone who has spent many years working with landscapes in the Pacific Northwest.

Get some good advice on what to do and what to avoid. Keith can help save you money, hard work, and the headaches that come with making some common mistakes in your landscape. Learn how to work with your plants instead of against them.

Your plants will thrive, and you’ll spend less time working in the yard, and more time enjoying it.

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Evaluating Landscapes Through Fire-Wise Eyes

Andrea Daines & Tricia Bachmeier, Master Gardeners

The goals of this presentation include providing information on how wild land fires start as well as how and why they behave the way they do. We will discuss how climate change and past fire suppression theories and techniques have combined to create the incredible increase in the size and intensity of the wild land fires we are seeing today. We will reach an understanding of the fire triangle and other key factors influencing fire behavior and debunk common myths and misconceptions. Understanding how wildland fires behave will help us to make conscious and informed choices in our landscaping decisions and better understand the recommendations presented in this class.

Fire resistant landscaping ideas will be explored and will include topics like hardscaping, drought tolerant plants, fire resistant ground covers, garden structures, fencing, and will also include resources to identify plants that work for you. The session will include brainstorming specifics that you may need to change in your landscape and ways neighbors can work together within communities since fires are no respecters of property lines. You should come away from this presentation with short-term and long-term goals to help you develop and implement plans for safer fire-wise landscapes.

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Floral Design Demonstration

Sharrai Morgan, AIFD, CFD, PFCE, CEJ

Sharrai will focus on floral design from PNW gardens. She will use examples of forgeable and grow-able foliage and touch on flowers that can be grown in the garden locally in the growing season that can be incorporated into designs.

SUNDAY, March 22, 2026

10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
A cook’s Garden – Culinary Herbs, Aromatics and Specialty Vegetables

Pam Pace, Master Gardener

Why buy when you can grow?
For the home cook/gardener, very few things are more rewarding than standing in the middle of your garden and planning your next meal. Likewise, nothing is more discouraging than standing in the produce section at the grocery store and not being able to find that specialty herb or vegetable you seek, or discovering the costly price and poor quality. “Shopping” in your own home garden is not only cost effective but the product is always fresher, more flavorful, a better quality and always readily available.

Growing culinary herbs, aromatics and specialty vegetables in the North Olympic Peninsula is not only easy but it’s one of the simplest, most economic ways to be self-sufficient and grow garden to table produce throughout the year, while taking your culinary skills to the next level.

Join Clallam County Master Gardener, Pam Pace as she talks about her favorite herbs, aromatics and specialty vegetables that grow so beautifully in our area. She will provide tips on growing, harvesting, cooking and preserving these culinary gems.

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Tips and Ideas for an Oh La La Garden

FEATURED SPEAKER
Ciscoe Morris, Gardening Expert, TV and Radio Personality, and Author

Ciscoe will share some of his favorite tips and tricks for keeping your garden looking it’s best. He will also talk about how to attract hummingbirds to your garden. Finally, he will give away a prize or two to a lucky winner.