Our 2017 Learn in the Garden Lecture series continues! Full of charm, grace and elegance, ferns are an easy to grow essential element of our NW gardens. Join Richie Steffen, Curator of the Elizabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden and President of the Hardy Fern Foundation, for an enlightening class learning the subtleties of fern ID > Continue Reading
Green Thumb Explorers is a program designed to engage and inspire children, offering a variety of topics relevant to today’s world. From seeds, soil and harvest to garden wildlife, from preservation and protection of the environment to a deeper understanding of nature, each Saturday workshop offers a unique opportunity to learn, explore Lakewold, and work > Continue Reading
Each year, Lakewold Gardens hosts a huge work party to provide summer maintenance for their rhododendron plants. Volunteers from around the Sound will converge on the property to prune, deadhead, and generally spruce up these beautiful, spring-blooming plants. This 10 acre historic estate is home to over 250 species of rhododendrons with over 900 individual > Continue Reading
Join us for a magical weekend celebrating all things Fae. This family-friendly event is sure to delight the young and the young-at-heart. This weekend will feature art, music, dance, storytelling all geared towards exploring the magic of the world around us. Join us daily from 10am-4pm and search for the 60 fairy houses hidden throughout > Continue Reading
May 18th Best Fruit and Berry Varieties for WA: Sam Benowitz has owned and operated Raintree Nursery for 43 years. In addition to being the founder of “Friends of Fruit” which operates a demonstration garden in Mt. Vernon, Sam has also introduced many edible plant varieties to Washington Gardeners. He has dedicated 40 years of > Continue Reading
Need a gift that will be remembered forever? Want to treat yourself to something special? Looking for something rare that will spark conversations for years to come? Our jewelry sale has what you are looking for! With hundreds of new, gently-loved and vintage jewelry items, you are sure to find one or two (or more) > Continue Reading
Come celebrate the arrival of Spring and all things garden at our Annual MayFest Celebration! Lakewold's MayFest is a great time to enjoy the beauty of the gardens in bloom and also enjoy great displays, exhibits and activities in the Wagner House. A week of Ikebana displays, pottery demos, art and history exhibits culminates in > Continue Reading
Raindancer Wild Bird Rescue & Planning the Children’s Garden Learn about the feathered creatures inhabiting our neighborhoods and forests, and the good work by Raindancer, a non-profit organization in Olympia. Using prepared flats, Explorers will learn how to plant seeds using techniques that will be used when they start crops next month in the Children’s > Continue Reading
Lakewold gardens is please to present our 2017 “Learn in the Garden” lecture series. As a key element in our mission, this program was designed to help educate, train and involve our local community members. Each class includes an hour lecture given by an expert in their field followed by two hours of hands-on learning > Continue Reading
Nature and Art Lakewold welcomes Tacoma artist and garden enthusiast Melissa Balch, who will inspire Explorers by helping them look beyond the page (or screen) when creating a piece of art. Children will experiment with mixed media, print images and pressed flowers to create their own unique works of art. For more information about the > Continue Reading
