YEARBOOK HIGHLIGHTS
2022-23
YEARBOOK
Our award winning yearbook is published every year for members only. It contains information about our club and its history, upcoming events, as well as information about our monthly meetings which run from September to June. It also has a member directory that helps us stay in touch with each other.
MONTHLY EVENTS
10:45am
11:00am
11:15am
12:30pm
SEPTEMBER
13, MONDAY
Board Meeting
20, MONDAY
Club Meeting
Meeting opens
HORTICULTURE
Val Taylor: Fall Inspirations
PROGRAM
Edmonds Parks During a Pandemic
by Angie Feser, Director, City of Edmonds Parks, Recreation, & Cultural Arts
Meeting adjorns
OCTOBER
11, MONDAY
Board Meeting
18, MONDAY
Club Meeting
10:45am
Meeting opens
11:15am
PROGRAM
Shifting Gears Horticulturally: Simplify,
Downsize, but Keep it Pretty
by Joe Abken, Executive Director, Kruckeberg Botanic Garden
12:30pm
Meeting adjorns
NOVEMBER
8, MONDAY
Board Meeting
15, MONDAY
Club Meeting
10:45am
11:00am
11:15am
12:30pm
Meeting opens
FLOWER DESIGN
Priscilla Krueger: Holiday Decorating
PROGRAM
Grow It. Make It. Share It. Food: A Celebration
by Nancy Leson, award-winning food writer, radio personality, public speaker, and Edmonds neighborhood coordinator for the Community Loaves project.
@nancyleson or nancyleson.com
Meeting adjorns
DECEMBER
1-3, WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY
Wreath Making
13, MONDAY
Board Meeting
18, MONDAY
Club Meeting
10:45am
11:00am
Meeting opens
HORTICULTURE
Val Taylor: Garden Art
11:15am
PROGRAM
The Basics of Successful Composting
by Fred Wemer, 17-year Veteran Master Gardener and volunteer at Bellevue Demonstration Garde
12:30pm
Meeting adjorns
JANUARY
17, MONDAY
Board Meeting
24 MONDAY
Club Meeting
10:45am
11:00am
Meeting opens
HORTICULTURE
Priscilla Krueger: Floral Design
11:15am
PROGRAM
Magnificent Mycelium
by Ruth Idunn, Educational Representative with Fungi Perfecti in Olympia WA
12:30pm
Meeting adjorns
FEBRUARY
21, MONDAY
Board Meeting
28, MONDAY
Club Meeting
10:45am
11:00am
Meeting opens
HORTICULTURE
Val Taylor: Floret Flower Farm
11:15am
PROGRAM
Raised Bed Vegetable Gardening
by Mark Hawley, Snohomish County Master Gardener since 2017
12:30pm
Meeting adjorns
MARCH
14, MONDAY
Board Meeting
21, MONDAY
Club Meeting
10:45am
11:00am
11:15am
12:30pm
Meeting adjorns
Meeting opens
HORTICULTURE
Floral Design by Priscilla Krueger
PROGRAM
The Siren Song of the Species Rhododendron
by Bob Zimmerman, owner of
Chimacum Woods Rhododendron Nursery.
APRIL
11, MONDAY
Wreath Making
18, MONDAY
Club Meeting
10:45am
11:00am
Meeting opens
HORTICULTURE
Floral Design by Priscilla Krueger
11:15am
PROGRAM
How the Dahlia Returned to America
by Martin Kral, who has been growing dahlias for 51 years!
12:30pm
Meeting adjorns
TBD
Basket Planting
MAY
3, 10, 17, 24 ALL TUESDAYS
Corner Planting
7, SATURDAY
Plant Sale
9, MONDAY
Board Meeting
16, MONDAY
Club Meeting
10:45am
11:15am
Annual Business Meeting, Recognition of Legacy Members, Installation of Officers
12:30pm
Meeting opens
PROGRAM
Living with Mosses
by Louise Koehn, Botanist and Master Gardener.
Meeting adjorns
JULY
2-4, SATURDAY - MONDAY
Float-building and Parade
AUGUST
15, MONDAY
Picnic
PLANT SALE & GARDEN BOUTIQUE GUIDELINES
(page 21 of the Yearbook PDF)
Floretum holds its annual plant sale and boutique the first Saturday in May. Members donate perennials, bulbs, herbs, annuals, small trees, and shrubs for the sale. We sell container gardens and other garden-related items at the garden boutique.
GENERAL
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Plants need to be at the sale no later than 7:30 a.m.
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Bring cardboard boxes to the sale.
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Plant sale co-chairs are the final authority in pricing items
INFORMATION TAGS
The quality of the donated plants is most important. Please pot, price, and label your plants with the appropriate coloured tags. Use a white tag for plant information. Note botanical name, common name, flower colour, height, and sun/part shade/shade (S/PS/SH).
PRICE TAGS
Coloured tag prices-
Yellow
Green
Orange
Red
Pink
White
$1.00
$2.00
$3.00
$4.00
$5.00
Over $5.00.
2022 COMMITTEE
Plant Sale Co-Chairs: Garden Boutique:
Tags:
Signs:
Tallyers/Tally Sheets:
Barbara Chase, Joyce Johnson
Lynn Kloke, Bonnie Magnuson,
Cheryl Stewart, Sharon Stout,
Jintana Wongvanit
Brunie Trolson
Tia Scarce
Cori Myers