Upcoming Classes & Gardening Tips
- June 2, 2019 ~ Flower Essence: Supporting your Health, Stability & Growth
- June 8, 2019 ~ Wax on Workshop – Silver Ring Making
- July 8, 2019 ~ Dynamic Drought Tolerant Gardening – Jason Jorgensen
- August 3, 2019 – Summer Art / Craft Market – Free – 10 am – 6 pm – more details to come / various artist and craftspeople participating!!
To register and pay go to our website www.cultusbaygardens.com
Mother’s Day Bouquets and Spring Blooms
Geums, Prostranthera ( mint bush ), Heather, and Heuchera
Primulas and Lady’s Mantle made into a small Tussie Mussie
Pacific Coast Iris hybrid ~ Sally Campbell’s garden
Rhododendron ‘Champagne’ ~ Sally Campbell’s garden
Geum ‘Mai Tai’ – at Dorit Zingarelli’s garden
Spring is really coming on strong with this unseasonal heat. Columbines, iris, geums, peonies, rhododendrons and primulas are in their glory.
I have been planting more shrubs and perennials to increase the beautiful and unusual options for our floral classes as well as transform areas now that we aren’t a retail nursery. It’s great to be able to reimagine the gardens as they become the backdrop for the classes we host.
The flower essence class is guaranteed to be packed with fascinating information and a clear approach to the method of making and using essences.
For creative fun join the talented Vashon artist Cat McCadden as she guides you in sculpting your wax form to make a silver ring
Our weather is changing so much I think the drought tolerant gardening class will be timely for how we need to rethink our ornamental gardens.
Joining us for a class or the Summer Market on August 3rd will give you a chance to enjoy the ambience of the gardens you came to love when you visited the nursery.
We will be taking a small break in offering floral classes while our teacher has a baby!
- June 2, 2019 ~ Flower Essence: Supporting your Health, Stability & Growth
Instructor ~ Leah M. Nguyen Flower Essence: Supporting your Health, Stability & Growth
Sunday, June 2
10 am – 3 pm
lunch & pie included
$100.00
Many people are attracted to flowers for their beauty or scent. What may be surprising is the healing powers that flowers have when made into flower essences. Leah will guide you in making and administering flower essences as well as how to use energy testing to find the essences you need.
‘Herbalist have long known that a plants healing powers are even stronger when you have the ability to collect and make your own remedies – the relationship with the plant is deepened when you are actively and respectfully involved in preparing it. This class will teach you how to connect with the plant’s healing gifts using plant spirit medicine techniques.
You will go home with your own flower essences you have made, as well as a custom blend for any issue you identify.
Leah’s new series of flower essences of Northwest native plants and selected cultivated plants will be available for sale.Cultus Bay Gardens provides the perfect location for this class, participants will be able to draw from the gardens and natural areas for essence making. And participants will enjoy a delicious lunch and home-made pie as we close.
About the instructor: Leah is an artist-healer, plant lover, plant spirit medicine practitioner, mother, and social worker living in Seattle. She uses flower essences as a primary mode of healing for herself and her family. Leah also creates portraits of individual’s soul energy in collaboration with a spiritual team. Leah has been teaching workshops on native plants since she was in high-school!
Website: www.planetpaintpeople.com
Instagram: @planetpaintpeopleArticle: Hilma af Klint and Emma Kunz: Conscious Collaboration with Spirit: http://temporaryartreview.com/hilma-af-klint-and-emma-kunz-conscious-collaboration-with-spirit/
For more information or questions about this class or partial scholarship options you may email Leah Nguyen directly at:
leah@planetpaintpeople.com - June 8, 2019 ~ Wax on Workshop – Silver Ring Making
Instructor – Cat McCadden of Grace Gow JewelrySaturday, June 8
12 pm – 3 pm
$160.00
This carving party, led by Vashon Island-based jeweler Cat McCadden, is where a few tools and a dash of instruction combine to fuel creativity. Using your own hands, your result is an awesome sterling silver ring — that you’ve made!To best see Cat’s work please go to this link gracegow.com
I saw Cat’s work initially at Honed, a Seattle jewelry shop located in Chophouse Row. I immediately loved her use of barnacles, crab claws and parts of found shells from her Vashon Island home. Delicate to larger pieces – with the sensitivity of our Pacific Northwest island life style. Never dreamed she’d be able to teach a class as well.
She’s very organized and has offered classes before so really has it down as to process and delivery!
Plus she’s a warm human being that’s a delight to be around.
Class will begin with a yummy lunch in the garden and then you’ll get to creating your own special ring.
With able instructions each person will make something just right for themselves. She will take your wax designs back and cast them into sterling silver and do whatever finishing is needed.Within 3 weeks your completed ring gets mailed to you.
Gold Barnacle ring
- July 8, 2019 ~ Dynamic Drought Tolerant Gardening
Instructor ~ Jason Jorgensen ~ Third Spring Landscape Design, LLC
President of Northwest Horticulture Society
Fine Gardening writerMonday, July 8
10 am ~ 3 pm (thereabouts)$99.00 ~ Includes power point, conversation, lunch & garden tour of Louise Abbotts drought tolerant garden
Jason Jorgensen’s Drought Tolerant Garden
Today’s gardens need to do multiple jobs; conserve water, create wildlife habitat, and be beautiful and inviting spaces. Longer and drier summers are requiring a shift in the plant selection, siting, and installation methods to create and sustain these new types of gardens. Water usage in our urban areas is becoming more expensive and we need to create a new gardening paradigm. Jason Jorgensen will show you how to adapt to these challenges in this class.
This talk will cover an introduction to our Pacific Northwest climate, summer-dry gardening history and inspiration, suitable plant choices, planting techniques, and gardens of inspiration.You will leave the workshop inspired and ready to tackle new gardening challenges.
A garden tour of Louise Abbott’s well established and amazing garden using drought tolerant plants will show you what can be done on the island. Jason will also bring some fantastic plants from Xera and Cistus Nursery in Oregon for you to purchase.
Jason Jorgensen
Born in California, Jason moved to Washington State at the age of seven, and has called the Pacific Northwest home ever since. After more than twenty years in the international shipping industry he decided it was time for a career change. After graduating in 2013 with degrees in Landscape Design and Ornamental Horticulture from Edmonds Community College, he turned his life-long passion for gardening and plant selection into his profession as a landscape designer. Currently, Jason is collaborating with clients on creating sustainable summer-dry gardens around Seattle. - August 3, 2019 ~ Summer Art / Craft Market
Saturday, 10am – 6pm
We have a fun selection of artist/craftspeople participating in our first Summer Market. Fiber artists, jewelers, ceramics, plants, flower essences, mandala rocks and more. Below are just some of the folks participating.
Save the date and come join the experience in the gardens at Cultus Bay.
Tom Fisher ~ Wooden Wares
From building our house and outbuildings to carving salad bowls, spoons and cutting boards, Tom’s woodwork is beautifully done and filled with soul from his deep appreciation of each special piece of wood. One of a kind items from boxes to boards—all delightful!
Jane Jeszeck – Vintage Cigarette Cards
Jane retired from book design but takes her passion for paper, color, and imagery to create these delightful cards using vintage cigarette pack stiffeners from the 1920’s Great Britain.
Luanne Seymour ~ Zipper Bags
Luanne is a self proclaimed recovering graphic artist! After many years working as a Creative Director at Adobe she left and returned to designing primarily with fabric and thread. She loves collaborating with other artists with a goal of reducing amount of fabric that would end up in a landfill.
IG @luanne.seymour
Leah Meridoc Nguyen ~ Flower Essences
Handprinted Dishtowels, Truffles, Cards, and more
A diverse and talented artist Leah will bring a variety of things she works on, from healing flower essences she has crafted from local plants, her art work applied to dishtowels to brighten those kitchen duties and her incredible truffles which are dairy free and made with coconut sugar—truly delicious.
IG @planetpaintpeople
Tuna tenugui dress with plain front decorative back – modeled by Leah NguyenMary Fisher ~ Maemae Sew & more
Handmade clothing, tops and dresses using a carefully selected group of fabrics chosen for style and comfort. All material pre-washed and dried so there’s no guess work.
Jams, jellies, preserves made from local fruits from the gardens using a low sugar approach. Ramilleta paper cutout cards and botanical delight cards, and perhaps some small fresh fruit pies.
Healing comphrey salve for wounds and rashes.
IG @maemaesew
Grace Gow ~ Jewelry
From casual to Northwest elegant, Cat McCadden will have a selection of her jewelry available. From gold stud barnacle earrings with diamond insets to crab claw open chains for a more hip relaxed look, Cat’s jewelry exhibits a broad range.
@gracegowjewelry
Laura Hudson ~ Painter
Laura is a local artist whose work as been in galleries, as well as at Prima Bistro in Langley. Well-known for her farm animals and beguiling chickens—from paintings to sketches, her work emits a warm friendly presence.
IG @laurahudsonartist
Darcy Sinclair ~ Jeweler
Darcy recently moved to Whidbey full time. I first noticed her work when she came into the nursery a couple years ago. After commenting on how lovely it was, I asked it she’d like to be part of a market. She only retails in one location in Edmonds so I feel lucky she wants to join us at the summer market. Her work is delicate and sensitive. Darcy will be demo working on a piece while at the market.
Cara Jung ~ Potter
Cara will be bringing her more practical ceramic work to the market—vases, plates and who knows what else. She also does more sculptural work which can be seen in a local gallery on Whidbey.
IG @carajungpottery
Jenny Smith ~ Magnolia Curve Ceramics
Vases, cups, vessels and more with a variety of glazes—recently inspired by a workshop she attended in the east, she continues to explore new avenues of marrying clay shapes with glaze. You can see her work on IG @magnoliacurveceramics
Rosi Gross-Smith ~ Bookbinder/Boxmaker
Rosi’s master’s degree in Bookbinding and restoration has lead her to up-cycling old cigar boxes with a beautiful mixture of papers. From organizing to holding special letters, jewelry or tea storage, her boxes can serve a variety of uses. She recently retired from many years at the Southern Poverty Law Center and is looking forward to a move west and getting back to her creative outlet.
Greg Warnick ~ Potter
From plates to large vessels and small sweet spoons, Greg finds inspiration in natural forms, seed pods and his many hikes into the mountains of the PNW. His love of an organic look and connection to earth shows in his style. I’m delighted he can join for the Summer Market since he was unable to be at our Holiday Open House last year.
IG @gryphyx
Renee Boyce ~ Painted Rock Mandalas
Renee has a clear focus on the dot patterns that make up her very popular and detailed rocks—from a stone that stays in place to a stone which is incorporated into a pendant—you will be drawn into the fine work and detail she achieves. When I first saw them, I was reminded of the wonderful patterns on a sea urchin shell. Renee will be demo painting while at the market.
IG @freelandartshack
Brittany Olsen-Boblitt ~ Hand Spun & Dyed Yarn
From raising her own sheep and rabbits to procuring wonderful materials from other farmers, Brittany turns out gorgeous yarn both blended and solid. A knitting and crocheting paradise of selection. She will also bring her spinning wheel and demo her work.
IG @yarnbob
Sandra Wallace ~ Jeweler
Since learning how to hand solder silver jewelry ten years ago, Sandra has been creating personalized pendants and bridal bouquet memorial keepsakes for her shop on Etsy. She is putting together a special selection of pieces for the August Market, featuring pressed flowers and ferns from England and her family’s home country of Latvia. Her custom work can be seen at her Etsy shop link: https://www.etsy.com/shop/glassrealm
Linda Apsitis ~ Kokedama & other surprises!
Linda is known for a wide variety of well-crafted items she has made for our Holiday Open House each year. For the Summer Market she’s doing new things—the Japanese technique of Kokedama being one of them—come be delighted.
Siri Bardarson ~ Giclee prints
Siri is an ipad digital artist with an emotional hotline to beauty. If she sees something and it hums to her she draws it! As she says “My work is always “live” in an attempt to capture a moment, and I finish drawing in one session. I want the energy of the moment to be captured in the image. My technique is gestural, sometimes using a stylus or sometimes just my finger.
Prints and cards from the world of beauty she sees.
I hope you are all paying attention to the water needs of your gardens. This is the first year I ever started watering my beds in April. It has been so incredibly dry I’ve moved sprinklers throughout my beds so I can prevent them from getting stressed. Hopefully late May and June will bring us more rain.
You can still plant when it’s like this ~you just need to be sure you keep your plants irrigated.
Happy Gardening
Hope to see you at some of our wonderful classes!
Mary Fisher
Cultus Bay Gardens
7568 Cultus Bay Rd
Clinton WA
Whidbey Island
info@cultusbaygardens.com
IG @cultusbaygardens
360-579-2329