NHS TOURS
2010 Summer Day Tours
Fee (per tour): Members $48, Non-Members $68, Limit: 35
Day tours include lunch, but do not include transporation or ferry fares. However, we will try to arrange as much carpooling as possible. Please allow all day for each tour (8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. approximate time from Seattle). Exact meeting places and times will be sent prior to the tour.
To register, email nwhort@aol.com or call Karin Kravitz at (206)780-8172.
- Vashon Island: Thursday, June 24 Sold Out
- The gardens we will visit on Vashon Island run the gamut from the stumpery of Pat and Walt Riehl (pictured below) to a large English-estate inspired garden. The day will include a stop at DIG Nursery and a visit to the “industrial chic” garden of the owners, Sylvia Matlock and Ross Johnson. You will have the rare opportunity of a visit to the garden of award-winning designer, David Pfeiffer, who takes the concept of outdoor rooms seriously.
- Sustainable Whidbey Island: Friday, July 16
- Visit four gardens, including The Raven and the Spade, the organic potager garden of member Camille LaTray recently featured in the Seattle Times, and the garden at Hedgebrook, a retreat for women writers. Lunch on the tour will be locally-sourced from Whidbey gardens. (Photos below courtesy of The Raven and the Spade Roadside Garden.)
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- Gig Harbor, Fox Island: Wednesday, July 28 sold out
- Enjoy a relaxing day visiting the maritime village of Gig Harbor. Garden designer Sue Goetz will lead a garden tour into six, unique, private gardens that bathe in our maritime climate for the perfect summer outing. Highlights include a visit to an elegant Asian style setting chosen by the Smithsonian Institute to be included in its archives of outstanding American gardens. Another invites you into a courtyard reminiscent of an elegant southern entry, along the journey to the house over a dozen bronze sculptures of children play on the lawn and cottage garden beds. Ideas that will inspire include a visit to a waterfront hillside of large boulders inter-planted by an avid gardener and plant collector. We will lunch in the private gardens of a local landscaper known for his mastery at large stonework. The second half of the day finishes with a visit to hidden gardens on Fox Island and surrounding areas.
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- Kitsap Peninsula: Monday, September 20
- The first stop will be a 10-acre garden in Hansville overlooking Puget Sound. It features over 200 container gardens, a vegetable garden, an ornamental garden, and a woodland trail. The next garden, also overlooking the Sound, has a spectacular vegetable garden and unique hedgerow. The tour will also include a visit to a bed and breakfast garden and Dragonfly Nursery.
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Tour the Tibetan Plateau with NHS and Pacific Horticulture
A Journey in Western Sichuan and Tibet for Plant Enthusiasts
June 27 - July 13, 2010
Richard Turner, Editor of Pacific Horticulture and Greg Graves of the Miller Botanical Garden will conduct this tour with special emphasis on the flora of Tibet. The tour will visit Chengdu, including the giant panda breeding center and the spectacular Jiuzhaigou National Park. On the Tibetan Plateua you will visit Lhasa and its many sacred sites. See some of the most diverse alpine flora on earth — many of these species will be in flower at this time of year. The region crossed is the center of diversity for genera such as Primula, Pedicularis and Mecanopsis. Hill slopes of the eastern river valleys support many Rhododendron species, and smaller alpine Rhododendron are in the high meadows.
Tibet Trip Fee: $4,395 per person twin share plus air fare of approximately $1,495 plus fuel surcharge plus tax San Francisco to Chengdu, China, RT, and in-tour flights $695 per person.