Home owners in Snohomish open their private gardens for you to stroll through & enjoy. It is a great opportunity to see how others garden and to get new ideas to use in your own garden. This year’s tour offers 6 rural gardens on a self-guided tour that you may visit in any order. Proceeds from the event help fund the downtown hanging baskets, scholarships and youth education grants.
Speaking as a self-proclaimed “plantaholic” who likes just about all things with foliage, fronds, or needles, one plant I started to salivate over in the 1990’s was Crape Myrtle (Lagerstroemia sp.). For us in northern latitudes, these mythical plants were uncommon and were perceived as…