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Snoqualmie Valley Record • July 27, 2011 • 11
SNOQUALMIE VALLEY
HOME & GARDEN
Making the best of an imperfect season
Nursery at Mount Si offering great deals on late summer color The summer sun is hiding its face, but the perennials in Christine Earl’s hands don’t seem to mind the Valley’s confused seasonal weather. Earl’s boots crunch on the gravel as she moves from yarrow to salvia to bee balm, pointing out the plants that are coming into their big moment, sun or no, at the Nursery at Mount Si. The extra-long, extra-wet spring and cool, late summer that the Snoqualmie Valley is experiencing in 2011 has been hard on gardeners and on the nursery’s bottom line, but Earl, the Nursery at Mount Si’s manager and head buyer, knows how to make the best of the situation, helping gardeners and homeowners salvage the season and exercise their green thumbs. “This is a great time to be planting,” she said. “The weather is perfect—not too hot, not too cool.” Earl’s deer-proof, low-maintenance selections are ready to unveil a blaze of summer petals, blue skies or no. “This is a butterfly and hummingbird heaven right here,” she said. “They’re looking pretty gosh-darn good right now.” SEE SEASON, 12
Seth Truscott/Staff Photo
Knowledgeable staff at North Bend’s Nursery at Mount Si include, from left, back row, Grady McDonald, Beto Bueno, Christine Earl and Sarah Winslow; seated, Jose Larios and owner Nels Melgaard.
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