PORT TOWNSEND — Tickets are on sale for the Jefferson County Master Gardener Foundation’s 2025 Yard and Garden Lecture Series.
Tickets are $75 for the six-lecture series or $15 for a single lecture at https://2025yardandgarden.eventbrite.com.
The series will be presented at 10 a.m. Saturdays from Jan. 11 through Feb. 15 at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, 4907 Landes St., Port Townsend.
Topics range from native plants and pollinators to edible landscape design and the importance of being evergreen in the Pacific Northwest.
“We’re excited to offer the lecture series in person this year,” said Harry Hayward, the foundation’s co-president. “We have a great lineup of speakers who’ll offer ideas on how to adapt our gardens, and gardeners, to our changing climate.”
Each 90-minute lecture will be followed by a Q&A session with the lecturer.
Master gardener plant clinicians also will be on hand to answer gardening questions.
“The Yard & Garden Lecture Series is a great opportunity to spend some winter mornings in the company of other plant people, learn and be inspired,” Hayward said.
This year’s presentations include:
• Jan. 11: “In Search of Excellence: Great Plant Picks for the Garden” by Richie Steffen.
Steffen is the executive director for the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden and the co-author of “The Plant Lover’s Guide to Ferns.”
• Jan. 18: “The Beauty of Weeds” by Mark Turner.
Turner, a freelance editorial photographer specializing in botanical subjects, is the co-author of “Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest,” “Trees & Shrubs of the Pacific Northwest” and the recently published “Weeds of the Pacific Northwest.”
• Jan. 25: “Edible Garden Landscape Design” by Sue Goetz.
Goetz, a garden designer and writer, is the author of “Complete Container Herb Gardening” and “A Taste for Herbs.”
• Feb. 1: “A Wild Idea: Native Plants for Pollinators, Birds and Wildlife” by David Allen.
Allen owns Shore Road Nursery in Port Angeles and has worked in restoration and plant propagation, including the Elwha River restoration project in Olympic National Park, for more than 35 years.
• Feb. 8: “Native Bees of Washington State” by Karen Wright.
Wright is the pollinator taxonomist for the Washington Bee Atlas, a state Department of Agriculture program that trains volunteers to identify and map existing native bee species in each of the state’s counties.
• Feb. 15: “The Importance of Being Evergreen” by Clay Antieau.
Antieau is a horticulturist, botanist, environmental scientist and educator who has served at several levels in Washington Native Plant Society and as research associate at the University of Washington’s Burke Herbarium.
For more information, visit www.jcmgf.org.
