Federal Way Festival Blooms May 10-11 (Continued)

Federal Way's Buds to Blooms will run Saturday, May 10 from 9:00 am - 3:00 p.m. and Sunday, May 11 from 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Shuttle bus transportation is available to all locations. Other festival guests include: Richie Steffen, Jeanine Smith, Hayley Howell, Jim Day, Cesar Medel, Mr. Darby, Rumples the Clown and Master Gardeners.

Select from your choice of optional activities: tour of the Barker Cabin, Bee Keeping, Ikebana display, blue grass music, banjo band, guitar music, pancake breakfast, storytelling, face painting, free wildflower seeds,wildflower coloring book, crafts and much more.

Festival locations featured during this year's show include:

• Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden, 2525 S. 336th Street, 253-927-6960 Featuring 10,000 specimens on 22 acres of land!
• Weyerhaeuser-Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection, 35663 Weyerhaeuser Wy, 253-942-5206. Promoters describe this collection of award-winning bonsai as unrivaled!
• Powell's Wood Gardens, 430 Dash Point Road, 253-529-1620. Three acres of beautiful trees, shrubs and plants native to our Pacific Northwest!
• West Hylebos Wetlands Park, South 348th Street, 253-874-2005. Newly-renovated wetlands reserve and wildlife refuge.
• Farmers Market at The Commons, South 320 & Pacifc Highway S., 253-261-8157. Be part of the crowd on the first day of the 2008 market season! Saturday only.

During the festival no admission will be levied at the Weyerhaeuser Bonsai Collection and West Hylebos Wetlands Park. The Rhododendron Species Garden will admit mothers and children only for at no addional cost. Powell's Wood will charge adults who visit the site a regular admission fee. Powell's Wood will not charge an admission fee for children under 12 years of age. Please be aware there is no charge at any time to enjoy the annual Federal Way Farmers Market.

To view a more detailed program and event timetable comprehensive event timetable click here.

Federal Way Garden Festival Blooms At Five Fabulous Venues!

Garden centers are busy stocking their shelves daily in order to fulfill the menu of South Sound gardeners whose tastes are being whet by a burgeoning schedule of calendar dates abloom
with multiple garden sales, tours and other festivities.

This spring also mark the debut of another soon-to-be great garden event when the City of Federal Way kicks-off the first annual Buds to Blooms Spring Garden Festival the weekend of May 10-11, 2008.

Yes, flower and plant enthusiasts, for two great days at five different venues around the city organizers have programmed a festival chock-full of extras headlined by long-time Western Washington garden luminaries including the unfatigable Ed Hume, unsinkable television personality Ciscoe Morris, and Seattle Post-Intelligencer garden scribe Marianne Binetti.

(To be continued)