Presentations
Garden Club Meeting - May 12, 2025
Guest Speaker: Bruce Haulman, Vashon Heritage Museum​
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The Colorful History of the Vashon-Maury Island Garden Club
The Vashon-Maury Island Garden Club traces its history to the first garden clubs on the island that began in the 1920s. Following World War II, two island garden clubs joined in 1957 to form the current Vashon-Maury Island Garden Club. Over the past 70 years the club has changed as the island has changed and today represents one of many active and vital organizations that make the island what it is. Join historian Bruce Haulman as he tells the story of the Garden Club with the assistance of Denise St. Dennis and Hunter Davis.
Bruce Haulman is one of many Vashon Island historians working to preserve and tell Vashon stories. He has published two histories of the island, Vashon-Maury Island in the Images of America Series (2011) and A Brief History of Vashon Island (2016). He also writes the "Time&Again" series, and the weekly "It's Your History" column with Mike Sudduth in the Beachcomber. ​
Garden Club Meeting & Year End Potluck - June 9, 2025
Guest Speaker: Rick Edwards
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A New Master Gardener Pollinator Demonstration Garden for the Mukai Campus
Vashon Master Gardeners are developing a Pollinator Demonstration Garden on the Mukai Farm & Garden property. This spring, in the West meadow, we’ll be planting both native Japanese and West Coast flowers to attract pollinators. We’re hoping for a colorful floral display and a host of bees and butterflies by this Summer!”
We hope that our visitors will be informed and inspired to create pollinator gardens of their own to create healthy and diverse eco-system.​
