Time for a spring garden

Two Orcas residents will be featured presenters at the 2014 WSU Master Gardeners Spring Gardening Workshop on April 26 on San Juan Island.

Two Orcas residents will be featured presenters at the 2014 WSU Master Gardeners Spring Gardening Workshop on April 26 on San Juan Island.

For more info on the event at Friday Harbor Middle School from 8:30 am to 3:30 p.m., visit sanjuan.wsu.edu/mastergardeners.

Gardener extraordinare Margaret Payne will describe how she designed and planted her all-season garden with regard to beauty, cost and low-maintenance in her presentation: “A Cottage Garden Through the Seasons.”

Michael Sterling of Sterlingscapes will present his techniques for creating a beautiful landscape that incorporates hardscape into the native environment with attention to the islands’ fragile ecosystem in his talk: “Sustainable Hardscaping.”