Veteran Master Gardener Valarie Bowers shares her broad gardening knowledge during the September Woodcock Walkabout. (Jan Danford)

Veteran Master Gardener Valarie Bowers shares her broad gardening knowledge during the September Woodcock Walkabout. (Jan Danford)

Woodcock Walkabout focus is on fruit, flowers Thursday

Tours offered at Sequim demonstration garden

SEQUIM — The Woodcock Demonstration Garden this week welcomes fall with floral displays and fruit to harvest.

At 10 a.m. Thursday, during the September Woodcock Walkabout, Master Gardener Valarie Bowers will be the tour guide as she takes visitors through the garden at 2711 Woodcock Road and answers questions about ripening apples, figs, miniature kiwi and flowers in fall.

The public is invited to take a guided tour the first Thursday of each month through October with a veteran Master Gardener, a free service.

Gardeners tend the gardens Thursday mornings and will be available to answer questions on their respective areas.

The Woodcock Demonstration Garden has garden displays demonstrating sustainable gardening techniques that cover a broad range of ornamental, edible and native plants as well as composting and garden design. It is open to the public daily.

There are detours around the Dungeness bridge at Woodcock Road; follow signs posted on Old Olympic Highway.

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