Gardening with Early Ephemerals by Richie Steffan

Name: Gardening with Early Ephemerals by Richie Steffan
Start: 2025-01-17T09:30:00-08:00
End: 2025-01-17T11:30:00-08:00
Location: 3201 Smith Ave, Everett, WA 98201-4579, United States

Schedule

Fri Jan 17 2025 at 09:30 am to 11:30 am

UTC-08:00

Location

3201 Smith Ave, Everett, WA 98201-4579, United States | Everett, WA

Join us for The Annual SCMGF Sustainable Gardening Winter Speaker Series, live at our NEW LOCATION:
Everett Station
Weyerhaeuser Room, 4th Floor
3201 Smith Avenue
Everett, WA 98201
(free parking at the train station)
Topic: Gardening with Early Ephemerals
Description:
There is no reason we cannot have a little color in our winter garden and early ephemerals are a great way to get the year off to a colorful start. Join Richie Steffen as he shares some of his favorite early blooming plants and share tips and techniques on how to use these plants effectively in the garden. Through luscious images you will learn about the best in shrubs, perennials and bulbs to brighten the gray days of winter and herald forth an early spring!
For sale: Plant Lover’s Gulde to Ferns by Sue Olsen and Richie Steffen $25 hardcopies. Cash or check accepted.
Cost:
$85 for the entire series, if purchased in advance. Tickets for individual sessions will be available for $20, starting January 1st, based on availability. Limited space available. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit: http://www.gardenlectures.com

Speaker Profile:
Richie Steffen
Few people have a passion for plants or an excitement about gardening more than Richie Steffen. Richie is the executive director for the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden, overseeing the development of the garden, its programs, and the rare plant collections. His expertise comes from over thirty-five years of experience in the horticultural field, with the last 24 years spent at the Miller Garden.
A noted lecturer, writer and photographer, Richie serves as a contributing editor for Fine Gardening magazine, regularly writing the Pacific Northwest Regional Picks feature. His photography can be found in many regional publications as well as on the Miller Garden and Great Plant Picks websites.
You can see his work at www.millergarden.org and www.greatplantpicks.org.
Richie is active in the gardening community with memberships in numerous horticultural organizations as well as serving on the board of the Hardy Fern Foundation. You can learn more about one of his plant passions in his book, the Plant Lover’s Guide to Ferns co-authored and co-photographed with his friend and fern mentor Sue Olsen.