June 9 Column: Spokane in Bloom Garden Tour Preview

June 9, 2019 Susan

Spokane in Bloom tour, Chicago Botanic Garden

I hereby declare the garden tour season officially open! Or at least, it will be on Saturday (June 15) when the Spokane in Bloom garden tour takes place. Learn all about it in my garden column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Spokane in Bloom kicks off garden tour season.

This wonderful tour provides folks with the opportunity to wander through 9 outstanding gardens on Spokane’s South side. It is put on by the hard-working members of the Inland Empire Gardeners.

The tour takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Here are the garden locations:

Nancy Caputo and Jim Jackson, 1122 E. 20th Ave.
Sue and Greg Plummer, 21 W. 33rd Ave.
Lori and Brian Scott, 6310 S. Pittsburg
Jane and Harold Stormfeltz, 8225 S. Regal Rd.
Mary and Larry Weathers, 6921 E. Jamieson Rd.
Ann Ostendorf and Richard Lambert, 223 W. 21st Ave.
Sara and Russ Weaver-Lundberg, 1329 E. Overbluff Rd.
Lisa and John Stone, 712 E. 19th Ave.
Jane and Sam Joseph, 1910 S. Upper Terrace Rd.

There will also be a bonus stop at Snapdragon Flower Farm, 6130 E. Jamieson Rd. If you aren’t familiar with this wonderful small farm, check out the profile of owner Beth Mort that ran in The Spokesman-Review on May 26, 2019.

Tickets can be purchased for $15 at any of the above gardens on the day of the tour, or ahead of time on the Inland Empire Gardeners’ website, or at the following Spokane nurseries:

Blue Moon Garden & Nursery, 1732 S. Inland Empire Way
Gibson’s Nursery, 1401 S. Pines Rd
Judy’s Enchanted Garden, 2628 W. Northwest Blvd.
Northwest Seed & Pet, 7302 N. Division St. and 2422 E. Sprague Ave.
Tower Perennial Gardens, 4010 E. Jamieson Rd.

Lunch will be available for purchase at the Stormfeltz garden. Musicians and garden-related vendors will be at most of the gardens.

Before we get into my video, I wanted to tell you that I’ve posted some photos of the garden of Jim Jackson and Nancy Caputo at the bottom of this post. Their garden is absolutely stunning!

For this week’s “Everyone Can Grow a Garden” video, the topic is growing cherries organically. Yes, I know: last week’s video was about apples so I’m on a fruit kick right now but that’s because this is the time of year to be dealing with apple and cherry issues… and doing this organically is truly the way to go! Take a look: