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Join Us For The Eleventh Annual
Gig Harbor Garden Tour
June 28th and 29th
Take advantage of this once-a-year opportunity to marvel at the personal gardens of Gig Harbor residents- your only chance to explore these private landscapes created by expert gardeners. Enjoy the wonderful nurseries, special classes and lectures that are part of the Garden Tour, along with the dining and overnight accommodations Gig Harbor offers.
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In conjunction with the
Gig Harbor Garden Tour join
garden guru
Ciscoe Morris
2:30 pm June 28th
at Rosedale Gardens |
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Ciscoe is well known in the media. Featured on KING5 TV, ‘Gardening with Ciscoe with KING5’s Meeghan Black’, can be seen every weekend on the KING5 ‘Morning News’ and on the KING5 ‘Noon News’ on Tuesdays and Thursdays. His half-hour long ‘Gardening with Ciscoe’ with co-star Meeghan Black, can be seen every Saturday on KING5. In addition, ‘Gardening with Ciscoe Live’ can be seen every Friday night on the Northwest Cable News Network. Ciscoe also makes regular appearances on the 'Gardening by the Yard' show on the Home and Garden cable network. His humorous and informational radio call in show, ‘Gardening with Ciscoe’, can be heard every Saturday morning on 710 KIRO, beginning at 10:00 AM. In addition, Ciscoe has co-authored two books. His newest book ‘Ask Ciscoe’ made its debut in late 2006 and is among the top selling garden books nationwide. You can read Ciscoe’s ‘To Do’ column every week in the Saturday Gardening Section in the Seattle P-I. Ciscoe’s home garden was featured in the October/November 1999 issue of ‘Seattle Homes and Lifestyle. Despite all of that, Ciscoe regularly leads garden tours to countries all over the world. His last exciting tour was to South Africa in October of 2007. |
The Gig Harbor Garden Tour is a tour for literacy. Proceeds benefit the Peninsula Adult Basic Education Program at the Gig Harbor Campus of Tacoma Community College. To learn more about visiting Gig Harbor or overnight accommodations
click here
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Hand Painted Adirondack Chairs – Gig Harbor Garden Tour for Literacy
This year the Gig Harbor Garden Tour is proud to announce that they have nine (9) hand-painted Adirondack chairs that will be raffled off to support the Adult Basic Learning program at Tacoma Community College. Each chair is a one of a kind art piece produced by local artists specifically for this year’s Gig Harbor Garden Tour for Literacy scheduled for June 28th & 29th, 2008. You have to see each one to appreciate how different and how wonderful each one is. Tickets for the tour are on sale at the Gig Harbor branch of Tacoma Community College located on Hunt Street. Raffle tickets for the chairs are only $5 each or 5 for $20. You can purchase tickets at the Gig Harbor branch of Tacoma Community College located on Hunt Street. One lucky person will win each chair at the end of the Garden Tour.
One chair, painted by Penny Hulse, displaying Ciscoe Morris’s beloved brussel sprouts will be auctioned off at Rosedale Gardens after Ciscoe speaks at 2:30 p.m. Ciscoe has agreed to autograph this chair prior to it going up for raffled. In addition, his latest book will be on sale prior to his presentation for your purchase. |
Thank you to our 2008 sponsors:
John Hogan
Tim Potter
