SEQUIM — Master Gardener Sally Tysver will present two programs on thyme this month.
During Thyme in the Landscape, Garden and Kitchen, she will share tips for the cultivation and culinary use of thyme at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Master Gardener Demonstration Garden at 2711 Woodcock Road, Sequim.
She will repeat this presentation Thursday, Aug. 25 at noon in the county commissioners meeting room at the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles.
The presentations are part of the Clallam County Master Gardeners Green Thumb Garden Tips Brown Bag educational series.
Tysver will discuss different varieties of thyme, how to grow them and how they might be used in landscaping. Then she will shift to how the different varieties can be used in preparing food.
She studied the basics of herbalism through the Australasian College of Herbal Studies in Lake Oseugo, Ore., and was an assistant with care of herbs at the Silverbay Herb Farm in Silverdale while it was a working farm.
Tysver has been a Clallam County Master Gardener since 1991 and has given presentations on the medicinal and culinary use of herbs. She manages the culinary herb garden at the Woodcock Demonstration Garden.
She is a member of the Master Gardeners Youth Enrichment Program and serves on the Master Gardener Foundation of Clallam County Board of Directors. She is a recipient of the lifetime achievement Golden Trowel Award.
For more information about these presentations or Master Gardeners, call 360-417-2279.
