Events & Workshops at Molbak's

Molbak's expert-led seminars & hands-on workshops scheduled for the coming months. Most of the events are FREE, do not require registration and are held in the Events Area of Molbak's.

SEMINAR: Top-Performing Perennials

• Featuring Glenn Withey and Charles Price, curators of The Dunn Gardens, and designers of the Bellevue Botanical Garden’s NPA Perennial Border and Border Renovation Project
• Join Glenn and Charles as they share with you their favorite perennials with an emphasis on top-performers with long-lasting and colorful blooms, striking foliage or interesting texture. Learn what features make these beauties truly shine in the garden. 
• April 7
• 10-11am

EXPERTS ON-SITE: Master Gardener Plant Clinic

• Bring your gardening questions - and plant samples - to the clinic and get answers from trained, WSU Master Gardeners.  Ask about plant selection; diseases and treatments; pest controls and prevention; and more.
• April 7
• 11am-2pm In the nursery
• The clinic will be held on the first and third Saturdays of each month through September.

G & G Dogs in the Nursery

• Stop and enjoy a specialty dog, brat or sausage grilled to perfection just for you by a G & G grill master.
• Saturdays and Sundays
• 11am-2pm In the nursery

SEMINAR & BOOK SIGNING: Creating a Beautiful, Chicken-Friendly Yard

• Featuring Jessica Bloom, CPH and Certified Arborist, N.W. Bloom – Ecological Landscapes, author of new book Free-Range Chicken Gardens: How to Create a Beautiful, Chicken-Friendly Yard
• Jessi will cover everything a gardener needs to know about integrating chickens into the garden, including chicken-keeping basics, her favorite chicken plants, and how chickens can benefit gardeners.
• April 7
• 12-1pm

Edible Gardening Weekend!

• Stop by and gather bountiful ideas for things you can do NOW to ensure baskets full of homegrown delights in the months ahead.
• Expert Advice
• Free Seminars
• Great Prizes
• Sat and Sun April 14 & 15
• 11am-2pm

SEMINAR: Beyond the Vegetable Bed – An Edible Garden Lifestyle

• Featuring Sue Goetz, The Creative Gardener
• Don’t just plant an edible garden; infuse it into your lifestyle. Use your garden space creatively and add edibles in the landscape, think blueberry hedges and parsley borders. From container gardens to mixed borders, Sue will share tips and creative design ideas so you can grow edibles successfully without expanding your vegetable garden.  She’ll also have suggestions on which varieties mingle well with ornamental landscape plants.
• April 14
• EDIBLE GARDENING WEEKEND!
• 10-11am

SEMINAR: Grow Your Own Herbal Remedies

• Featuring Jenny Perez, Garden Manager and Adjunct Faculty Member, Bastyr University
• The culinary herbs that gardeners know, grow and gather actually have healing properties and benefits outside the kitchen.  Research verifies that many of our favorite herbs and spices offer much more than flavor. Re-discover the multi-faceted uses of many common garden herbs and learn how to grow and transform them into effective herbal home remedies.
• April 14
• EDIBLE GARDENING WEEKEND!
• 12-1pm

SEMINAR & BOOK SIGNING: Salad All Summer Long

• Featuring Willi Galloway, freelance writer, creator of Digginfood.com and author of Grow. Cook. Eat: A Food-Lover’s Guide to Vegetable Gardening
• Learn how to map out a delicious and nutritious salad garden – one that will provide you with fresh, tasty salad ingredients month after month. Hear Willi’s tested tips on fertilizing, creating a weed-free bed, and her suggestions on when to use seeds or starts.  Book signing to follow. 
• April 15, SUNDAY
• EDIBLE GARDENING WEEKEND!
• 11am-12pm

SEMINAR: Gardening with Kids – Creating an Easy Outdoor Snacking Garden

• Featuring Emily Bishton, Green Light Gardening & Magnuson Nature Programs Director
• Foster a love of gardening in children while encouraging healthy eating habits! Join Emily and learn about fruits, vegetables, and herbs that are healthy, easy-to-grow, and encourage in-garden snacking. Emily will cover succession planting techniques for fast-growing, tasty crops such as sugar snap peas, carrots, chives, cherry tomatoes, as well as other fun-to-eat-crops like strawberries and blueberries.  Kids are encouraged to attend with their parents!
• April 15, SUNDAY
• EDIBLE GARDENING WEEKEND!
• 1-2pm

SEMINAR: Your Garden, Your Lifestyle; In Harmony with Nature

• Featuring EagleSong, Director of Natural Beauty, Willows Lodge;  Nebari Garden Design and Consultation
• Design your own beautiful, dynamic garden with EagleSong’s practical advice and inspiration as a guide. By understanding and using five easy-to-grasp principals, you can surround your home with a garden that reflects authenticity and a deep sense of place, your place!
• April 21
• 10-11am

EXPERTS ON-SITE: Master Gardener Plant Clinic

• Bring your gardening questions - and plant samples - to the clinic and get answers from trained, WSU Master Gardeners.  Ask about plant selection; diseases and treatments; pest controls and prevention; and more.
• April 21
• 11am-2pm In the nursery
• The clinic will be held on the first and third Saturdays of each month through September.

SEMINAR: Native Plants, Natural Beauty

• Featuring Susie Egan, owner of Cottage Lake Gardens
• Come learn more about the big trend toward using native plants.  Discover why these low-maintenance beauties have become so popular and how to take full advantage of them to enhance your garden.  Susie will cover her favorite native shrubs, perennials, ferns and groundcovers with a special emphasis on those that make wonderful companions to our native rhododendrons.
• April 21
• 12-1pm

SEMINAR: Pot Palettes

• Featuring Wendy Welch, Award-Winning Garden Designer and Edmonds Community College Instructor
• Learn container gardening from the ground up!  Wendy will share her design process - from choosing pots, potting soils, and color schemes; to plant selection, maintenance, longevity and more. See photos of Wendy’s successes (and not-so-successful work) and walk away with a complete plant list so you can design your own award-worthy containers.
• April 28
• 10-11am

SEMINAR & BOOK SIGNING: Help! My Rhody’s Out of Control!

• Featuring Cass Turnbull, Plant Amnesty Founder and author of Cass Turnbull’s Guide to Pruning: What, When, Where & How to Prune for a More Beautiful Garden
• The Northwest’s ‘signature’ plant, the rhododendron, is a stunning beauty. However, it can also be intimidating to prune. Find out what can and can’t be done to fix an unsightly rhododendron. Cass will discuss deadwooding, maintenance pruning, transplanting, arborizing, radical renovation, and ‘nicking the buds’.
• April 28
• 12-1pm

SEMINAR: Color, Color, Color

• Featuring Marianne Binetti, Local Gardening Expert and Author
• Wake up your pots, borders and beds with these tips and tricks for using bright, bold color. Learn how to mix foliage and flowers using contrast, repetition and texture techniques that give you maximum color impact. Includes plant list of annuals for our area that pack the most color punch in a cool Seattle summer. 
• May 5
• 10-11am

EXPERTS ON-SITE: Master Gardener Plant Clinic

• Bring your gardening questions - and plant samples - to the clinic and get answers from trained, WSU Master Gardeners.  Ask about plant selection; diseases and treatments; pest controls and prevention; and more.
• May 5
• 11am-2pm In the nursery
• The clinic will be held on the first and third Satu