Showing posts with label secret gardens of lake forest park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label secret gardens of lake forest park. Show all posts

Lake Forest Park Garden Tour

Thursday, April 2, 2015


All of the gardens for the Saturday, June 20, 2015 Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Tour have been discovered. This is going to be another fantastic event. You will get a chance to peek into some splendid backyards and see specimen gardens, native gardens and other delights to the senses.

Starting at 11am, Ciscoe Morris, KIRO 97.3 FM Radio talk show host, will be at the Plant Sale located in the lower level of the Lake Forest Park Town Center. Ciscoe is a fixture in the local gardening scene and his knowledge of plants is wide ranging. He is always happy to answer questions and share his experience with our local gardeners.

The Lake Forest Park Plant Sale is an opportunity to add treasures to your own garden. It is filled with vendors selling unique garden art and a wide variety of plants including hostas, ferns, perennials, fuchsias, native and drought tolerant plants.

Advance ticket sales will begin in May for The Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Garden Tour. Tickets purchased in advance will be available for $12 at the shopping center and various local gardening centers and on the website. Day of the tour tickets will be $15.

The Lake Forest Park Town Center is located at the intersection of Ballinger Way NE and Bothell Way NE (SR 104 and SR 522).



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Secret Gardens Revealed

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Photo by Jerry Pickard

By Sarah Phillips

The 2013 Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Garden Tour and Plant Sale was a huge success. More garden enthusiasts than ever toured the gardens and attended the plant sale.

The hallmark of the tour every year is the surprise gardens. The delightful surprises are revealed behind gates and in backyards all over Lake Forest Park.

This year was no different. Walking behind a small green home, visitors were invited into a large mature garden with a stream running through the property. A guesthouse set aside for reading provided a refuge from everything.

Potting shed
Photo by Jerry Pickard

If you were lucky enough to be there when Peter Ali, the flute player, serenaded visitors you were in for a real pleasure. The music wafted over the meadow enhancing the visit to the garden.

Music was a treat in Armond and Walters’ garden too. Dan Voetmann played the guitar and sang as visitors strolled in the garden; his deep-throated voice filled the neighborhood with music and invited visitors to enjoy music and the gardens.

This crowded garden full of statuary and plants was an indulgence. No matter where you looked there were whimsical statuary, wandering paths, and delightful surprises.

One of the surprises in the “dog garden”  was the notion of going from room to room.  The compact garden featured space for chickens and dogs, and also had lots of places to delight guests.

Photo by Jerry Pickard

Two gardens rounded out the tour: one featured an entryway flanked by bollards from the old elephant enclosure from the zoo with compactly planted flowers and shrubs. The garden highlighted shade plantings and was filled with delightful garden art.

The final garden highlighted a way to manage rainwater from the roof with a rain garden. Water runoff was directed to a depressed garden filled with native plants and slowly percolated through the soil mimicking the natural manner water is absorbed.

Water feature
Photo by Jerry Pickard

Four of the gardens were Certified Wildlife Habitats demonstrating ways to blend gardens, birds, chickens, dogs and rainwater. These secret places revealed beauty and ingenuity in small and large spaces, in mature and new gardens. And just wait to see what surprises are in store for next year.

The proceeds of the tour support four local organizations and public art in Lake Forest Park.  If you are interested in joining the garden tour committee, or if you know of a garden the tour should consider for next year, email the garden committee



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Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Garden Tour and Plant Sale Saturday in LFP

Friday, June 14, 2013


At the lower level of the Lake Forest Park Town Center, the always informative and entertaining Ciscoe Morris broadcasts from 10am to noon, and then does a potting demonstration after he signs off.

You can ask Ciscoe your most pressing questions, play his on air garden challenge and win a free plant for your garden or maybe even get a recipe for Brussels Sprouts. MadisonMarquette and the Town Center merchants are sponsoring his broadcast.

Ciscoe is broadcasting from the plant sale of the Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Garden Tour.  Shop at the plant sale you will see loads of garden plants, garden supplies and great garden art. This is the place to get new plants for your garden this year.

Ciscoe and the plant sale are just part of this annual summer treat! The Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Tour on June 15 promises to be one of the best ever. The sun is coming out on Saturday. The temperature is expected to be 76 degrees -- perfect weather for garden inspiration.


Not only are there five gorgeous gardens to tour, you will hear musicians, see artists in action, and get expert advice from Master Gardeners in each location. We can’t tell you much about the individual gardens – they are, after all, secret until the day of the event. But we can promise a wide range of designs, a stunning array of plants, and some whimsical art to delight your imagination.

Tickets are available on line for $12 in advance or $15 on the day of the tour.


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Last week to buy advance tickets for Secret Gardens Tour and Plant Sale on June 15

Friday, June 7, 2013

From the 2012 Tour

June 15, 2013 is the 11th Annual Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Garden Tour and Plant Sale. 

The garden tour is in its 11th year of showing off local gardens and hearing Ciscoe Morris broadcasting live from Town Center. The broadcast begins at 10 am followed by a potting demonstration. Ciscoe’s broadcast will take place in the lower level of the Lake Forest Park Town Center mall. 

Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 on the day of the tour. Buy tickets online or check the website for ticket sale locations.

For more information email or call 206-366-3302.


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11 Top Reasons to go to the Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Garden Tour and Plant Sale

Wednesday, June 5, 2013


Reason #4
The ever delightful Cisco Morris will be broadcasting
from Lake Forest Park Town Center as part of the
Secret Gardens of LFP Garden Tour

Top Reasons to go to the Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Garden Tour and Plant Sale
June 15, 2013

  1. Visit five fabulous gardens.
  2. It is the peak of the garden season.
  3. Master Gardeners in the gardens to answer your questions.
  4. Watch Ciscoe Morris broadcasting live from Town Center—free.
  5. Listen to live music and watch artists doing their art in the gardens.
  6. Wander through the plant sale showing off a variety of plants that thrive in our local environment.
  7. Purchase the amazing garden-art for sale at the plant sale.
  8. Take amazing photos. 
  9. The ticket revenue is redistributed back into the community providing support for local community groups and public art.
  10. It is a great time.
  11. You will come away inspired.
Plant sale
Reasons #6 and #7
Go online for more information and to purchase tickets.


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June 15-16 Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park

Sunday, May 26, 2013

2012 Garden

On Saturday, June 15, 2013, the 11th Annual Secret Garden Tour and Garden Fair - Plant sale of Lake Forest Park will be open to the public for viewing of five beautiful private gardens in Lake Forest Park. 

Each garden will feature an artist displaying artwork and musicians performing in the garden. Master Gardeners will be available to answer your gardening questions.

Morning begins at 10am with Ciscoe Morris from 710 KIRO Radio broadcasting live from the Garden Fair - Plant Sale located in the lower level of the Lake Forest Park Town Center. Vendors will be selling unique garden art and a wide variety of plants. Hours 10am to 4pm.

Advance tickets on sale now for $12. Check the website for locations. Tickets may be purchased for $15 at the Garden Fair - Plant Sale on June 15th beginning at 9am.

The Lake Forest Park Town Center is located at the intersection of Ballinger Way NE and Bothell Way NE.


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11th Annual Garden Tour and Plant Sale in Lake Forest Park

Friday, April 26, 2013



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Building Community Assets—Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Garden Tour and Plant Sale

By Sarah Phillips

The Secret Gardens Lake Forest Park Garden Tour and Plant Sale has reinvested over $85,000 into the Lake Forest Park community.

In the past 10 years, the proceeds from the Garden Tour have been reinvested in community art and sustaining community organizations.

Five by Five by Rodger Squirrell

The largest gift has been to the City of Lake Forest Park. The Garden Tour decided early on to set aside over half of the proceeds of the tour for a community art donation. For the City’s 50th anniversary, the Garden Tour, in conjunction with the City, created a request for proposals, identified an artist and oversaw the project. The commissioned piece of public art, Five by Five, was created by local artist, Rodger Squirrell. It was installed near City Hall and donated to the City by the Garden Tour.

The Tour also donated $5000 to the Hamlin Bridge project to enliven and add whimsy to the pedestrian bridge crossing.

The rest of the proceeds from the garden tour have been distributed back to the four sponsoring agencies: Third Place Commons, the Lake Forest Park Garden Club, the Stewardship Foundation and the Shoreline/Lake Forest Park Arts Council. Each of these organizations has reinvested the proceeds into local programming, scholarships, plantings, and local music and arts programs.

The Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Garden Tour and Plant Sale began in 2002.

The City approached the Garden Club to see about adding the garden tour to an existing community event called Picnic in the Park. The intrepid gardeners thought local gardens had passed their peak in late July and suggested a date in June.

A group of people led by the Lake Forest Park Garden Club and City staff organized the first meetings and invited various local organizations to join the effort. The Garden Club brought experience with tours, Third Place Commons assisted in raising funds for Ciscoe Morris and had experience with event planning. The Stewardship Foundation and the Arts Council each saw the Garden Tour as a way to provide environmental education and enhance a local sense of community. The City of Lake Forest Park participated, providing space to meet and publicity.

Save the date for the 11th Annual Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park and Plant Sale, Saturday, June 15, 2013 9am to 4pm. Tickets are available online and at garden centers and outlets in the Town Center Shopping Center.


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LFP Garden Tour and Plant Sale June 15, 2013

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

From the 2012 Lake Forest Park Garden Tour

Sometimes your garden needs inspiration. One great way to get inspired is to visit interesting and intriguing gardens. If you are looking for inspiration or just some fresh ideas about your garden, save June 15 for the Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Garden Tour and Plant Sale.

This year five delightful gardens will be on display. You can learn about plants and flowers from Master Gardeners. If you have wondered about how to garden if you have a dog, there will be a garden that has mastered both. Wondering how to manage your stormwater and make it into a garden feature, come on the tour.

Ciscoe Morris will be broadcasting live from the lower level of the Lake Forest Park Town Center between 10 am and noon .

Tickets are available online and at garden centers and local venders at Town Center.


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Save the date June 15, 2013 for the Garden Tour

Friday, March 15, 2013



Are you longing for summer?  Are you walking in the garden looking for buds?

The Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Garden Tour has found five amazing gardens for the June 15th tour. These gardens will showcase flowers, plantings, dogs, chickens and rain gardens.

The owners are sprucing up the places and getting ready for visitors.

The garden tour is in its 11th year of showing off local gardens and hearing Ciscoe Morris broadcasting live from Town Center. 

The lower level of the Lake Forest Park Town Center mall will be transformed into a lush green plant sale with bargains, specialty plants, and plants that thrive in our local environment.

Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 on the day of the tour. Check the website for locations of ticket sales or buy online.

For more information email or call 206-366-3302.

Save the date! June 15, 2013


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Secrets revealed: Photos from a garden on the Secret Garden Tour

Saturday, June 16, 2012

You can see this garden for yourself, along with five others, by purchasing a ticket and a map at Lake Forest Park town center Saturday. Every garden has art and music, in addition to the beautiful plantings.

Marc Weinberg photographed this beautiful garden so you can get a taste of the Secret Garden Tour.








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More secrets revealed: a second garden from the Tour

Six gardens are on the Secret Garden Tour this year. Begin at the plant sale and Cisco Morris at the Lake Forest Park Town Center. Buy your ticket and map and see this and five other beautiful gardens, complete with music and art.


Marc Weinberg took these photos of the estate garden on the tour. 









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The Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Garden Tour—Sneak Preview

Friday, June 15, 2012


On June 16, 2012 the Secret Gardens of LFP Garden Tour will include six spectacular gardens. 

Here is what you will see in the gardens on the tour:

  • A mature estate garden with a stream, mature trees and sweeping perennials
  • A Victorian cottage garden with terraced English style gardens
  • Shade gardens with uncommon plant specimens and unusual pairings
  • Northwest Eclectic - wandering paths a charming potting shed and great outdoors living space
  • Cottage garden designed to attract birds with garden pieces from around the world
  • A true secret at the end of a long drive –terraced patio, space for dogs and a wonderful mixture of new and old

Visit the gardens and get inspired.

Peonies plus
The tickets for the tour are $12 in advance and $15 on the day of the tour.  Get tickets online or at various garden store outlets and at the shopping center.  On the day of the tour tickets will be sold at the lower level of the Town Center at lake Forest Park.

Rhodies
Ciscoe Morris will be broadcasting from Town Center between 10 am and noon.  You can be part of the live audience and ask him questions.  After the broadcast, Ciscoe will pot a couple of planters that will be raffled off.

The Town Center will be transformed into a lush garden setting with vendors selling a huge variety of plants—native and specialty plants.  Garden artists will have items to add whimsy and interest to your gardens.

It is a great time for gardeners.


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Ciscoe Morris broadcasting live from Town Center on June 16

Wednesday, May 16, 2012


Cisco in a pot


Everyone's favorite gardening expert, Ciscoe Morris, is coming to Lake Forest Park with his live call-in radio show on Saturday, June 16 at 10 am.

Every Saturday Ciscoe is on 97.3 KIRO FM in a live call-in show. You can be part of the audience live at the Lake Forest Park Town Center. Come with your questions and he may answer them on air.  Or be part of his challenges about plants and perhaps win one of the garden treasures he gives away to the members of the audience who answer questions about gardening.

After the broadcast Ciscoe will do a potting demonstration. The container he creates will be raffled off at the end of the day.

Ciscoe will be broadcasting from the lower level of the Lake Forest Park Town Center. He will be in the midst of a huge plant sale featuring a wide variety of flowering plants, ferns, succulents, native and specialty plants. 

The plant sale is a part of the Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Garden Tour and Plant Sale. The Garden Tour features six local gardens from estates to cottages.  The weather this season has cooperated so these gardens are at their best. Every garden features an artist in the garden and music. 

Purchase tickets to the garden tour on line or at garden stores - or these locations in Lake Forest Park Towne Centre: Two Trading Tigers, Ace Town Center Hardware Store and Wildbirds Unlimited.





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The Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park: a preview

Friday, June 17, 2011

Laughing Rose
On Saturday, June 18, you can take the Secret Gardens of LFP Garden Tour, listen to music, and view art in the gardens,

In addition to touring colorful gardens, visitors will have a chance to listen to live music and watch artists in action.

Fern by Rodger Squirrell
This year the gardens will include Roger Squirrell - a metal sculptor, Mike O’Day - a ceramicist, Christine Stoll - a jeweler, Amy Pleasant - a plein air art oil painter and Muriel Fisher who does painting and drawing.

Christine Stoll's Chickadee necklace
As you walk through the gardens, listen to musicians Mike Good - a jazz musician, duos Laughing Rose and Bradshaw, Susan Moore and Danick Jawer and Stephen Kennedy playing the bass.

The 9th Annual Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Garden Tour and Plant Sale is part of the City of Lake Forest Park’s 50th Anniversary celebration.

Ciscoe Morris will be broadcasting live from the Lake Forest Park Towne Centre between 10 am and noon.

 Art by Amy Pleasant
Advanced ticket sales for The Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Garden Tour are $12. Advance tickets are on sale now on the website and in person at Towne Centre Ace Hardware, Two Trading Tigers, Wildbirds Unlimited and at the Farmers Market. 

The Advance tickets will be exchanged for a ticket and map on the day of the tour at the Plant Sale. Tickets are $15 day of the tour. The Plant Sale is free and the public is invited.

Mike O'Day's Redbird
The Lake Forest Park Towne Centre is located at the intersection of Ballinger Way NE and Bothell Way NE (SR 104 and SR 522.)

For more information visit the website or email.


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Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Garden Tour 2011, Saturday, June 18, 10am to 4pm

Saturday, June 4, 2011

From 2010 Tour
The ninth annual Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Garden Tour on Saturday, June 18, 2011 features five beautiful gardens in the city of Lake Forest Park. Artists and musicians will work and perform at each garden. Master Gardeners will be on hand to answer your gardening questions.


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Tour the Gardens of Lake Forest Park, Saturday, June 19

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

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Advance tickets for the LFP Garden Tour now available

Wednesday, May 12, 2010


June 19, 2010 is the date for the Annual Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Garden Tour and Plant Sale. The tour features gardens in Lake Forest Park. The gardens are unique northwest gardens, ranging from long-established gardens with creative solutions to common problems, to lush gardens featuring flowering plants and shrubs.

Ciscoe Morris, of Gardening with Ciscoe, will be broadcasting live from the Lake Forest Park Towne Centre starting at 10 am. After the live broadcast, from noon to 1 pm, Ciscoe will be doing container potting demonstration. During the live broadcast and continuing until 4 pm you can visit the plant sale. The Plant Sale is free and the public is invited.

Advanced tickets for The Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Garden Tour are $12. Advance tickets go on sale in May on the website. Advance tickets will be exchanged for a ticket and map on the day of the tour at the Plant Sale. Tickets are $15 day of the tour.

The Lake Forest Park Towne Centre is located at the intersection of Ballinger Way NE and Bothell Way NE (SR 104 and SR 522.)

For more information visit our website or email.

Photo courtesy Secret Gardens of LFP

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