Build a Rain Garden! Learn to build beautiful rain gardens that look great in your landscape and improve environmental health! Rain gardens are bowl-shaped flower beds that capture and soak in rain runoff from roofs and driveways, keeping polluted runoff from rushing off to local waterways where it causes erosion, flooding and pollution. Rain gardens use low-maintenance native plants, make great wildlife habitat, […]
Ninety-nine percent of all bugs in our gardens are beneficial – performing admirable duties such as pollination, predation of our pests, decomposition of garden waste, and more. Join Master Gardener Laura Heldreth for a talk on some of our area’s most common beneficial bugs and learn how to attract and support them in your garden. This class includes original photography – see some of our friends […]
Join WSU Extension Clark County Master Gardeners to learn about and laugh at birds. First, at 3 Feathers Emu Ranch, we’ll marvel at emus, whimsical-looking relatives of ostriches. Watching the chicks made us think of The Keystone Cops running amok in Jurassic Park. A visit to Blacksheep Farm will give us a glimpse into the breeding, shearing, lambing care that goes into […]