Library, Resources & Archives

• Canceled due to COVID19 – March 19, 2020-CUH-Gen. Mtg – Youtube Presentation Provided:
  • Flori-tine: From the Garden to the Vase (Part 1)
  • Flori-tine: “From the Garden to the Vase” (Part 2)
  • Floral Recipe Here
  • Speaker Description: Lori Poliski from Flori flowers in Woodinville will provide a “garden path” map to enhancing you garden to grow visually interesting foliage and flowers to use in your arrangements. She will discuss conditioning flowers, different styles of vases and floral mechanics and demonstrate making an arrangement. Members are encouraged to bring materials for her to incorporate. A suggested pollinator friendly plant list will be provided.
• Postponed to Oct. 5th Virtual Meeting, due to COVID19 – April 6, 2020-CUH-Hort Mtg -Members Only
  • Provisional Talk: Ann Blume, “This Presentation is to DYE for!”
• March 2, 2019
  • Provisional Talk: Judy Rupert, “Color Me Pollinated” Books Recommended: 
    “The Botanical Bible: Plants, Flowers, Art, Recipes & Other Home Uses”
    by Sonya Patel Ellis
• February 3, 2020– Presented by Floral Design: 
  •  Link to Flyer select here: The ancient Japanese technique of “Kokedama” also known as “Moss Ball”. Easy to make and beautiful, Kokedama are versatile and can either hang indoors or outdoors, be placed in a bowl, or displayed on a decorative plate or slate. They are a stylish alternative to the way we display indoor plants and make beautiful centerpieces.
    Jill Crutcher and Debby Smith from our SGC floral design committee shared the history of this art form and demonstrated how to make one home.
• January 16, 2020
  • Travel writer and author, Kim Seely will talk about exploring the biodiversity of the Great Bear Rainforest (the largest coastal temperate rainforest in the world) and the Northern BC coast
• January 6, 2020
  • Back by popular demand, Drew Foster* (who spoke about pruning back in November) is going to speak at our January 6th meeting about how to sharpen and maintain your gardening tools. He is also going to finish up his discussion on pruning, as there were so many questions in November he didn’t have time to answer them all. Please come with your questions and be prepared to have wonderfully sharp garden tools from now on, once you learn the proper techniques. Hope to see you all at our January meeting.*Drew Foster is an arborist for the University of Washington Botanic Gardens, as well as a Master Student in the School of Environment and Forest Sciences at the UW. Before moving to Washington State in 2014, he lived and worked in California as a Conservation Associate in the Eastern Sierra, and as a botanist and field technician for the Forest Service. Drew loves all plants, annual and perennial, herbaceous and woody, but has a particular fondness for desert wildflowers. He volunteers monitoring rare plants for the Rare Care program at UWBG, and loves to see trees pruned properly and well cared for.
• November 21, 2019– CUH: Gen. Mtg
  • Dr. Nick Bond on “Are Salmon Doomed? Hatching a Plan to Save a Northwest Icon” (UW Climatologist)
• October 7, 2019 –
  • Provisional Talk: Betsy Larson, “The Masque of the Blue Garden” 

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• • • Poem read by Catherine Allan: “New Beginnings” by Helen Steiner Rice

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