Two finales: Evergreen and Village Green

October 26th, 2008 Tracy Posted in Evergreen High School, Gardening, News, Schools, Sports No Comments »

EVERGREEN HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Tough year for the team, which lost Saturday night to Renton, 40-8. One more regular-season game to go, an away game against Lindbergh on Friday night, 7 pm.

VILLAGE GREEN PERENNIAL NURSERY: Today’s the last scheduled day for the nursery to be open. Proprietor Vera Johnson is having a sale on Vietnamese pottery for the grand finale (50% off). Vera also notes she’s offering consultation/design/installation services, $50/hour, and adds, “Just a heads-up, we will be reorganizing over the winter. I am planning some changes with the use of the land.” Next year, she’s planning the usual spring opening, but then a July closing of the retail operation, not sure about “regular” hours after that, but definitely “more design and consulting work, allowing our creative skills to be more useful in designing beautiful gardens for clients, plus garden maintenance.” She’s also planning to offer plants for real estate “staging,” as well as using the Village Green land to grow more food, with more “demonstration edible gardens” and more workshops on “edibles/herbals.” One final note - she’s planning on keeping goats, and might even rent them out for blackberry removal. Vera promises more details to come; meantime, Village Green’s hours today are 10 am-4:30 pm, 10223 26th SW (map)

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Last chance for Master Gardener help at White Center McLendon’s

September 13th, 2008 Tracy Posted in Gardening No Comments »

Today’s the last scheduled day of the year for the Master Gardener program to have its weekly clinic at McLendon’s answering your questions (”what IS this weird plant I found?” and more), 10 am-2 pm.

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Fish among the flowers

August 17th, 2008 Tracy Posted in Businesses, Food, Gardening 2 Comments »

Now you can say you’ve seen a 200-pound halibut. Posing with it, Seattle-based fisherman Bill Curtin, husband of Village Green Perennial Nursery proprietor Vera Johnson. He’s back home from fishing in Alaska, and Village Green is selling some of the catch - plus inviting you to a halibut barbecue next month. They’re also selling red snapper (rockfish) - we stopped by for some today and followed Bill down to the basement freezer:

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