Sept. 15 Column: Spokane Dahlia Festival

It’s always exciting when a new event comes on the scene that holds a lot of promise. This is the case with the Spokane Dahlia Festival, which will take place at Northland Rosarium on Sept. 21. This event is the subject of my garden column, which you can read in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Celebrate late bloomers at Dahlia Festival.

The Spokane Dahlia Festival is a collaboration between local flower farmers and the rosarium and is sure to bring smiles to everyone who takes part in it.

The flower farmers are Tall Grass Farms, In Bloom Spokane, Bloom Flower Farm, Cabbage Hill Farm, Snapdragon Flower Farm, Prairie Sky Farms and Fleur de Provence Lavender Farm.

The festival will include an informative talk on growing and dividing dahlias, a display of a wide variety of these amazing flowers, fun craft classes, and a make-and-take dahlia table arrangement class. While the festival is free, there are charges for most of the classes, which you can pre-pay for on Northland Rosarium’s website.

One other thing you might be interested to know: beginning on the day of the festival, the end-of-the-season plant sale at Northland Rosarium features a 40% discount. That’s very tempting!

Festival hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and the rosarium is located at 9405 S. Williams Lane in southwest Spokane County. I hope you can come because it will be a wonderful way to celebrate this magnificent flower as well as this year’s growing season!

And now for this week’s “Everyone Can Grow a Garden” video. What’s the topic? How about September garden tasks? There’s a lot to discuss this time of year.