Category Archive • LFP Garden Club

A Jam-Packed June Coming Up!

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With summer nearly here, things are heating up at Third Place Commons with a calendar packed full of great free, Zoom events all month long. First up, on Saturday, June 12th at 9:30 AM is Civic Saturday, a nonpartisan gathering with music, poetry, readings, and small group discussions. While not religious in nature, it is like ...

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Go Green with us starting May 26th

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Third Place Commons invites you to join us in a vital ongoing conversation with “Going Green: A Three-Part Series.” Throughout the series of free Zoom programs, presenters will explore and guide conversation around several topics of great interest that emerged during the recent Lake Forest Park Community Town Hall on Building Climate Resiliency. The series begins this ...

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Heating Up: The Ethics of Climate Change on May 26th

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What if we could tell ourselves a new story about climate change—and, in doing so, alter our relationship to our planet? With larger, longer wildfire seasons, accelerating species extinction, ocean acidification, and sea-level rise, it’s increasingly clear that climate change isn’t something that’s about to happen—it’s here. But while the laundry list of problems wrought by ...

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This Just In! Last Minute Additions (& LAST CHANCE at Tickets)

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This just in! New additions to our upcoming auction include this cheerful field o’ flowers, a 24″ x 24″ painting (acrylic on canvas) by Meenakshi Sinha. Is it just us, or do these beauties make you think of the LFP Farmers Market, too? Also just added, a **Scenic Seattle Flightseeing Tour** for two from KENMORE AIR! So ...

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Get Your Tickets Today for our 20th Anniversary Breakfast!

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Third Place Commons is celebrating its 20th anniversary as a community supported nonprofit organization with an extra special party at this year’s annual community breakfast. Get your tickets today for our very special birthday party!  The big event, which is entitled “20 in 2020: Twenty Years of Your Community in Your Space,” will take place on ...

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These Garden Gates Open for One Day Only on 6/15

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Get your ticket now for the to the Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Garden Tour & Market, and prepare to discover six magical, private worlds of garden delights… each with live music, working artists, master gardeners, and OF COURSE, gorgeous flowers, plantings, landscaping, garden art, and so much inspiration and delight. The big event is ...

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Gorgeous gardens, art, crafts, music, and more!

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Saturday, June 17th is the big day for our beloved annual Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Garden Tour & Market!  For one day only, you get to peek behind the gates and tour six of the most special private gardens in north Seattle. Exquisite landscaping, glorious flowers and plants, peaceful water features, unique garden art, and ...

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Garden Photography

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Program gem alert! The Lake Forest Park Garden Club meets in the Commons on the second Tuesday of the month from September through May.  Members start with a business meeting, and then invite the community to the second half to hear a presentation from gardening experts.  And what an amazing array speakers they have had, from ...

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Garden Delights

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We haven’t had frost yet in the greater Seattle area, but fall is definitely here.  Escape the rain and darkness with a tour of Irish gardens on Tuesday, November 11th at 10:30 a.m. in the Commons. Your guide will be Victoria Gilleland, designer extraordinaire, and owner of  Victoria’s Cottage Garden Designs.  After an early summer visit ...

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