PORT TOWNSEND — Tickets are available now for the 2018 Master Gardener Yard and Garden Lectures, which will begin Saturday, Jan. 13 with an international look at gardening.
The lectures will be presented from 10 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Saturdays through Feb. 17 at the Port Townsend Community Center at 620 Tyler St.
Series tickets are $55 and can be purchased at Henery’s Garden Center or https://www.brownpapertickets.com/. Day tickets are $12 each on a space-available basis.
On Jan. 13, Marty Wingate will present a lecture on “Gardens and Gardeners Abroad.”
Her armchair travelogue through public and private gardens in England, Scotland and Ireland will introduce listeners to unfamiliar plants as well as to new ways to use old favorites. Her audience will leave with tips on plants and designs as well as ideas for their next vacation.
Every garden has a story. For instance, there is the tale of how Hidcote Manor’s garden records were lost and found 50 years later or a young couple’s idea of an American prairie in Sussex, as well as Inverewe, a Scottish garden planted and left to its own devices for 20 years.
Wingate is a writer and speaker on gardens and travel who shares her love of Britain in two mystery series — the Potting Shed books and Birds of a Feather.
Her garden books include “Perennials for the Pacific Northwest” and “Landscaping for Privacy.” She leads garden tours to England, Scotland and Ireland, spending free moments in research for her mysteries or, she said, in pubs.
Her articles appear in “The American Gardener” and she has a regional column in “Country Gardens Magazine.”
Wingate holds a master’s degree in urban horticulture from the University of Washington, and is a member of the Royal Horticultural Society and the Northwest Horticultural Society.
She will take a group to the Channel Islands and Isle of Wight in June 2018. For more information, see http://nwtravel.com/channel_islands.
The lecture will include book sales and signing.
Other presentations in the series are:
• Jan. 20 — Michael Pilarski, “Herbalscaping: Landscaping with Medicinal Plants.”
• Jan. 27 — David Montgomery, Ph.D, and Anne Bikle, “A Soil Trilogy.”
• Feb. 3 — Nicole Larson, “Ethnobotany of the Olympic Peninsula.”
• Feb. 10 — Sue Milliken and Kelly Dodson, “Shade Gardening in Jefferson County.”
• Feb. 17 — Judi Stewart, “Growing Great Fruit.”
