Gardening with Ciscoe: Radio, TV, Newspaper(Updated 06-04-09)

• KIRO 97.3 FM
• Submit your gardening questions to King 5 News.
  You can also watch past segments.
• Check out my weekly To-Do list in the Seattle Times.

Seasonal Gardening Shows and Festivals(Updated 04-27-09)

• Northwest Flower and Garden Show  (annual February event)
• Skagit Valley Tulip Festival  (April)
• Sorticulture Garden Arts Fair in Everett  (June)
• Bainbridge in Bloom Garden Tour  (July)
• Lavender Festival in Sequim  (July)
• Plant Sales & Garden Tours  (year round)

Local Gardens to Visit(Updated 04/10/10)

• Bellevue Botanical Garden
• Bloedel Reserve
• UBC Botanical Garden
• Dunn Gardens
• Highline Botanical Garden
• Kubota Gardens
• Lakewold Gardens Estate
• UW Medicinal Herb Garden
• Meerkerk Rhododendron Garden
• Seattle Chinese Garden
• Rhododendron Species Foundation
• UW Botanical Garden

Local Gardening Organizations(Updated 04-24-08)

• American Bamboo Society Pacific Northwest Chapter
• American Community Gardening Association
• Arboretum Foundation
• Great Plant Picks   A list of "The Best" as determined by a Northwest panel of experts.
• International Society of Arboriculture (Pacific NW Chapter).
  Need a certified arborist? This site has lots of info for you along with a list of local certified arborists.
• Mt. Vernon Research Center
• North American Rock Garden Society
• Northwest Horticultural Society.
• Northwest Orchid Society
• Northwest Perennial Alliance.
• Plant Amnesty
• Seattle Arborist Office
• Seattle Rose Society.
• Seattle Tilth
• WSU Master Gardeners
  Be sure to check out the Snohomish and Kitsap county pages.
• Washington State's Nursery and Landscape Association.
• Washington Native Plant Society
• Western Cascade Fruit Society

Fruit and Veg(added 08-07-09)

Some are listed in the category above (Seattle Tilth and Western Cascade Fruit Society for example). With the increased interest in home grown fruit and vegetables, here are a few more.

• City Fruit
• Go Go Green Garden

Northwest Nurseries/Garden Stores(Updated 03/23/10)

• A Garden of Distinction (Seattle)
• AW Pottery
• Bainbridge Gardens (Bainbridge Island)
• Bark and Garden Center (Olympia)
• Bayview Farm & Garden (Whidbey Island)
• Bellevue Nursery (Bellevue)
• City Peoples (Seattle)
• Christianson's Nursery (Mt. Vernon)
• Classic Nursery (Redmond)
• Clear Creek Nursery (Silverdale)
• Dig Nursery (Vashon Island)
• Emerys Nursery (Lynnwood)
• Fancy Fronds (Gold Bar)
• Far Reaches Farm (Port Townsend)
• Flower World (Maltby)
• Furneys Nursery (Des Moines)
• The Grange (Issaquah)
• Gray Barn Nursery (Redmond)
• Heaths and Heathers
• The Herb Farm (Woodinville)
• Magnolia Garden Center (Seattle)
• McComb Gardens Nursery (Sequim)
• Mesogeo Greenhouse (Bainbridge Island)
• Molbaks Nursery (Woodinville)
• My Garden Nursery (Mill Creek)
• Oudeans Willow Creek Nursery (Snohomish)
• Peninsula Gardens (Gig Harbor)
• Pine Creek Nursery (Monroe)
• Rain Tree Nursery (Morton)
• Ravenna Gardens (U Village and Kirkland)
• Sky Nursery (Shoreline)
• Swansons Nursery (Seattle)
• The Country Store and Gardens (Vashon Island)
• Valley Nursery (Poulsbo)
• Watsons Greenhouse (Puyallup)
• Wells Medina Nursery (Medina)
• Wight's Home & Garden (Lynnwood)
• Windmill Gardens (Sumner)
• Woods Creek Wholesale Nursery (Monroe)

Garden Art(Updated 03-10-07)

• Little and Lewis

Plants and Garden Products(Updated 04-24-08)

• Cedargrove compost
• Garden Works    (manufacture a great plant staking system)
• Scatmat    (makes the scarecrow that scares away deer)

Recycled Products(Updated 11-17-02)

• King County Vendor List of Recycled Plastic (additional sources)
• King County Environmental Purchasing
• Rain Barrels

Environment(Updated 04-24-08)

• Natural Yard Days
• Native Plant Salvage Alliance
• Puget Sound Clean Air Agency
• Wild Washington campaign to save the Alpine Lakes region.
• EcoTeach (helping conserve flora and fauna in Costa Rica)
• Sierra Club (Washington State)
• King County's List of Noxious Weeds
• Seattle Green Gardening Program   (lots of useful information)
• King County Solid waste Division
• Saving Water Partnership Partnership
• UBC Sustainability

Specific Plants(Updated 02-19-06)

• Clematis
• Rhubarb
• Pumpkin Page

Other Gardening Sites with lots of links(Updated 11-18-01)

• Pacific Northwest Gardening
• 2 Rainy Side Gardeners
• Hedgerows Canadian Garden Site
• Kew Gardens
• Backyard Gardener
• Plant Ideas
• Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain.

Literature (garden & other)(Updated 03-10-07)

Books

• Sasquatch
• Timber

Magazines

• Horticulture
• Gardens West

Newspapers

• Northwest Garden News
• Seattle PI Garden Section
• Seattle Times Garden Section

Libraries

• Miller Horticulture
• Seattle Public

Seed Catalogs(Updated 04-24-08)

• Burpee
• Cooks Garden
• Ed Hume Seeds
• Johnys
• Park Seed
• Renee's Garden
• Ronniger's Seed Potatoes
• Seeds of Change
• Territorial

Creatures, birds, and bugs(Updated 01/04/04)

• Department of wildlife
• Information about West Nile Virus:
  • Washington State Department of Health
  • Center for Disease Control
  • WSU Cooperative Extension and look at their factsheet on mosquitoes (pdf file).
• Seattle Audubon Society
• Bats Northwest
• Visit the Orchard Mason Bee
• The Butterfly Zone
• Cranefly
• Find your rubber creepy crawlies at Archie McPhee's
• Spencer Entomology Museum (UBC)

Fun in the Pacific Northwest(Updated 07-24-99)

• Seattle Mariners
• Seattle Symphony in the new Benaroya Hall.
• Seattle Art Museum
• Woodland Park Zoo
• How about a movie?
• Bicycle Saturdays and Sundays along Lake Washington.

Recipes(Updated 03-10-07)

• Recipes from PCC Natural Markets
  ( here are the Recipes that I whipped up with chef Lynne Vea.
• Find recipes from Bon Appetit and Gourmet at Epicurious
• Don't forget about my Brussels Spouts recipes.

Weather, Space, and Nature(Updated 03-10-07)

• King5 Weather Forecast
• BBC World Weather Forecast
• World Climate Historical Data
• Find an aerial view of your neighborhood from Terraserver
  or find the view on Google Maps
• Moonrise/Moonset and Sunrise/Sunset
• Washington State Tides

Transportation(Updated 03-10-07)

• Real time Seattle traffic   (Oh la la, this site is cool!)
• Seattle Metro Buses
• Ferry Schedules

Updated: 04-10-10