Learn about flower arrangements at ‘Work to Learn’ party

September 21, 2022 1:30 am
Photo by Renne Emiko Brock Join Mary Crook, a volunteer with the Sequim Botanical Garden Society, to learn about attractive flower arrangements for a “Work to Learn” party at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, at the Sequim Botanical Garden Terrace Garden.
Photo by Renne Emiko Brock Join Mary Crook, a volunteer with the Sequim Botanical Garden Society, to learn about attractive flower arrangements for a “Work to Learn” party at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, at the Sequim Botanical Garden Terrace Garden.

Learn all about how to make attractive flower arrangements from local volunteer Mary Crook at the Sequim Botanical Garden Society’s “Work to Learn” party at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, at the Sequim Botanical Garden Terrace Garden at Carrie Blake Community Park, 500 N. Blake Ave.

Attendees are encouraged to bring a vase and clippers to use the gardens’ dahlias and roses as the core of cut flower bouquets. Extra foliage, water and clippers will be provided.

Afterward, learn to identify and dead-head (cut off) the past-peak blooms.

Photo by Renne Emiko Brock / The Sequim Botanical Garden Society hosts a “Work to Learn” party at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, at the Sequim Botanical Garden Terrace Garden at Carrie Blake Community Park, 500 N. Blake Ave.

Photo by Renne Emiko Brock / The Sequim Botanical Garden Society hosts a “Work to Learn” party at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, at the Sequim Botanical Garden Terrace Garden at Carrie Blake Community Park, 500 N. Blake Ave.

Crook has been a volunteer with the Sequim Botanical Garden Society (SBGS) for five years and a gardener since moving to Sequim in 1978. Mary’s mother took Japanese flower arranging classes in her home when the family lived in Japan, and ever after flowers and foliage were centerpieces in the living room. Inheriting some of her mother’s vases, and loving color and the variety of textures in the flowers in her own yard, she enjoys bringing them together as both fresh and dried arrangements.

SBGS is a volunteer partner with the City of Sequim and a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, that provides information and a demonstration of what can be done in home gardening with research-based horticultural practices.

For more information, contact the SBGS president Dona Brock at BROCKDL88@gmail.com or 360-460-8865, or visit fb.me/SequimBotanicalGarden or SequimBotanicalGarden.org..