Jennings Park in Marysville has a beautiful little garden tucked behind the playground and the big red barn. They offer field trips, demonstrations, and a gardening hotline (425-357-6010). We love wandering around the garden. There's a cute little picnic table right in the middle of the garden, a great place for a scenic lunch or to take some photos. I've never planned a field trip here, but it seems like a great idea, so I'm passing the information on to you! Here is exactly what their website says, cut and pasted:
WSU Master Gardeners maintain an extensive Demonstration garden in Marysville. The garden features both permanent and annual garden beds which showcase a wide variety of ornamentals, flowers, vegetables, herbs, and fruits. Permanent garden areas encompass many theme gardens including a mature English Cottage Garden, a Lime and Burgundy Garden , a hop scotch garden and "Thyme Out" chairs, a dwarf conifer garden, a cutting garden, kitchen garden, all American selections, vertical growing techniques, stacked vegetable gardening, meditation garden, hebe garden, ferns, heuchera and hostas, succulents and sedums herb garden and a new perennial beds.
Hours: Volunteers are available to answer questions, explain techniques, and help solve home garden problems each week on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday (May through September , except holidays) from 9-1.
Location: Jennings Park at 6915 Armar Road in Marysville.
Directions: Take exit 199 from I-5; drive east 3/4 of a mile on 4th Street; turn left on 47th. Continue 1/2 mile, bearing right at the Y; the park is on the right.
Map to Jennings Park
Tours: : The Demonstration Garden is open year-round for self-guided tours.
To arrange special tours during the summer months for schools or other groups call the WSU Extension Office, (425) 338-2400.
(Photo credits: http://snohomish.wsu.edu/mg/garden/index.html)
