Master Gardeners host 17th annual Home and Garden Show

The show will feature an array of businesses to help folks transform their homes, inside and out.

By Katie Lutz WSU Master Gardener • May 17, 2017 7:00 pm

By Katie Lutz

WSU Master Gardener

The Master Gardener Foundation of Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties will present the 17th annual Home and Garden Show this weekend.

For the past two years, the show has been organized solely by the Washington State University Master Gardener Program and the foundation that supports it. For many years prior, Master Gardeners teamed up with Olympia Master Builders to organize the show; but after 2015, OMB chose to discontinue its involvement.

That did not slow the event’s growth one bit.

“Vendors will fill the entire pavilion this year,” said event organizer Terri Small, a WSU Master Gardener. “There will be more garden- and home-related vendors at the show than visitors will have seen in many years.”

Filling the Mike Murphy Pavilion of the Grays Harbor County Fairgrounds in Elma, the show will feature a diverse array of businesses to help folks transform their homes, inside and out. New and returning vendors from all over the state will be selling everything from plants to home improvement services.

At the show’s Master Gardener Store, color pots, garden accessories and gently used gardening books will be sold to support the foundation. Last year’s store proceeds were used for public education in both Grays Harbor and Pacific counties. Programs that benefited included the First Saturday workshops at the Grays Harbor County Demonstration Garden, Master Gardening classes at the Hoquiam Timberland Library, and workshops at the Demonstration Garden at the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum on the Long Beach Peninsula.

Master Gardeners will also be available there all weekend to answer gardening questions, and they will give several informative talks.

Also featured will be Sam Benowitz, owner of Raintree Nursery, who will talk at 1 p.m. on Saturday about the best fruits and berries for our maritime climate. The always entertaining Ciscoe Morris will describe his favorite plants at 1 p.m. on Sunday.

A spider-themed children’s booth will keep young ones interested all weekend long. (Rest assured there will be no live spiders.)

The show will be open Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.. Admission and parking are free.