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Residents opening yards for Garden Tour By JESSIE STENSLAND Staff reporter
Picture an old-fashioned country garden overlooking an expanse of blue sea. Or a backyard garden alive with birds flirting between Japanese maple and dwarf conifers. These are a couple of the gardens that will be drawing a 1,000 or so visitors during the ever-popular Whidbey Island Garden Tour. Five gardens, from Coupeville to Bayview, will be on this year’s tour, which is set for Saturday, June 20. Tickets are available at Bayview Farm & Garden, Chocolate Flower Farm Store, Flowers By The Bay, Sally’s Garden and Lavender Wind Farm’s Coupeville store. Tickets are limited to 1,000. South Whidbey resident June Davis is on the garden selection committee and also agreed to open her own yard to the garden tourists. She said the gardens were chosen to showcase a variety of sizes, designs and styles so they should be something interesting for just about everyone. It’s not difficult for the group to find great gardens for the tour year after year, she said. She said people tattle on folks with remarkable landscapes. “If you have a great garden,” she said, “people know and then they turn you in.” She said it’s a perfect event for
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The June Garden is one of five gardens on the 2015 Whidbey Island Garden Tour. local gardeners, who love to share their gardens and to visit other gardens. “If you’re going to have a garden, the best way to learn is to go on a garden tour,” she said. It’s also a great way to raise some money for the community. Small grant are given out to “causes and non-profit organizations that sup-
port the improvement, restoration, and maintenance of our common habitat,” according to the group’s website. Whidbey Island Garden Tour, Inc., an all-volunteer, nonprofit group, has given out more than $300,000 over the last 19 years. For the first time this year, the group is holding a photo contest.
The winner will receive two tickets to the 2016 tour. Photos must be of the 2015 gardens and be taken during the tour or pre-tour, June 19 or 20. All entries must be emailed to wigt@whidbey. net by June 30. Visit the group’s website, wigt.org, for more information about the tour and the gardens.
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SWELL Book Discussion Group, 6:30 p.m., June 17, at Freeland Library. Looking for an evening book discussion group? Join us the third Wednesday evening of each month. For adults. www.sno-isle.org 2015 Oak Harbor Music Festival Launch Party, 7-10 p.m., June 17, Rustica Cafe Wine Bar Kitchen, 670 SE Pioneer Way, Oak Harbor. Live music performance by 3 Cent Stamp. Hors d’oeuvres. No host bar. $80 per person. Call Cynthia Mason at 360-9147612.
Saturday June 20
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Meerkerk Classic Auto Show, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., June 20, at Meerkerk Gardens. Fifth annual classic car display. Whidbey A’s and Whidbey Cruzers clubs will gather around the gazebo at Meerkerk Gardens. They will be joined by cars from Everett and Bellingham to display their marvelous machines. Admission is $5 for adults. www.meerkerkgardens.org NRA Basic Pistol Class, 6-9 p.m., June 19 and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 20 at the NWSA range located at 886 Gun Club Rd., off Oak Harbor Rd. Learn about pistol parts and operation, ammunition, gun safety, pistol shooting
fundamentals, and pistol shooting activities. This class includes shooting on the NWSA Pistol Range. The cost of the class is $25 and includes a book. For questions or to register call NRA instructor John Hellmann at 675-8397 or email NWSA.Training@ gmail.com Additional information can be found at www.northwhidbeysportsmen.org
Sunday June 21
2015 Master Gardener Education Series, 1-2:30 p.m., June 21, at Greenbank Farm’s Stansberry Cottage. You will learn what cover crops are and why they are used. You will also learn the pros and cons of various cover crops in our climate and to use them effectively. Presenter will be Linda Bartlett. Bartlett
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Whidbey Island Radio Control Society meeting, 6-8 p.m., June 22, at the Family Bible Church, Oak Harbor. Learn how and where to fly and how to operate your RC safely. Learn the the FAA rules and meet the society’s pilots. They fly two to three days a week. Guests welcome. They fly everything from RC gliders to turbine jet aircraft. www. wircsrc.com
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