Event Info

Garden Market

The Garden Market, formerly known as the “Plant Sale,” features a dazzling array of plants for every garden and so much more! Shop for plants, flowers, and a beautiful assortment of garden art and creative endeavors that will bring personality and charm to your outdoor spaces (and maybe even your indoor ones as well).

The Garden Market is open from 9 AM to 3 PM on the lower level of the Lake Forest Park Town Center, 17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park, 98155 (at the intersection of Bothell Way NE/SR-522 and Ballinger Way NE/SR-104).

Admission is free.

The 2025 vendor list includes:

Plant Vendors

  • Blue Frog Garden Nursery (Japanese maples)
  • Celestial Dream Garden (unusual plants)
  • Chimacum Woods (species rhododendrons – many rare & unusual)
  • Earth Grown Creations (perennials, including ferns, trees & shrubs)
  • Lee Farm & Nursery (perennials, hardy fuchsia, shrubs, scented geraniums, herbs & trees)

Garden Art

  • Blue Raven Glassworks (stained glass mosaic garden stones)
  • Cards from Kurt (nature photography)
  • Hannah Rain Finegold (precision fine art in ink & thread)
  • Sour Sprout Creative (cedar planters & small ceramic pots)
  • Totally Blown Glassworks (blown glass pond floats & sun catchers)

Non-Profit/Community Participants

  • City of Lake Forest Park (environmental education)
  • King County Noxious Weeds Control Program (educational resources on noxious weeds)
  • Lake Forest Park Water District (plant exchange information, Climate Action Plan, water samples)
  • Master Gardeners (plant & pollination information)
  • North City Water District (current projects in Sheridan Beach, hazard maps, conservation ideas)
  • Plant Amnesty (information on pruning correctly & gently)
  • Tilth Alliance (Garden Hotline & information on natural, healthy yard care topics)

Sponsor Booths

  • Bartlett Tree Experts (healthy tree information & services, 50 free easter red bud saplings)
  • Rotary Club of Lake Forest Park (community programs, polio eradication)

Interested in being a vendor at our Garden Market? See info at the bottom of this page.

Garden Tour

The annual Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park Garden Tour features five or six beautiful, private gardens in the City of Lake Forest Park. Once a year, for one day only, these unique and often spectacular local gardens are opened to the public as part of this tour.

Purchase tickets in advance at local garden centers or online and exchange the advance ticket for a map of the six gardens on the date of the event in the lower level of Lake Forest Park Town Center. Same day tickets can be purchased in person there as well.

Ticket holders can visit the gardens in any order.

What you can look forward to in each garden:

Artists and musicians will work and perform at each garden.

Artists in 2024 included:

  • Anneke Wilder, botanical drawings
  • Cheryl Hufnagel, pastels
  • Nikki Starwalker, abstracts
  • Kelsey Nollette, botanical drawings
  • Gigi Gelfan , oil paintings
  • Rance Holiman, oil landscapes

Musicians in the gardens in 2024 included:

  • Tracy Hagen, cello
  • Mike Good, guitar
  • Bradshaw Flute Trio
  • Dan Benson combo, jazz & more
  • Milner Family Fiddles
  • Peter Ali, Native flute
  • STRUM, ukulele band (at Town Center)

Master Gardeners will also be on hand in each garden to answer your gardening questions. Master Gardeners is a program of WSU.

Master Gardener volunteers teach local community members to:

  • Manage their gardens and landscapes in a science-based, sustainable manner;
  • Address environmental and social priorities such as water conservation and water quality protection;
  • Reduce the impact of invasive species; and
  • Increase public awareness of healthy living through gardening.

Master Gardeners also enhance communities through demonstration gardens and donation of produce to local food banks.

Tickets

Advance tickets are $20. Tickets will be available online starting early May:
PURCHASE TICKETS

In-person ticket outlets are still being confirmed. Tickets will likely be available beginning in May at the following outlets:

Tickets purchased in advance, whether online or at an outlet, must be exchanged on the day of the garden tour for maps to the gardens at the Secret Gardens check-in table.

Same day tickets can be purchased for $25 at the Secret Gardens check-in table.

The Secret Gardens check-in table is part of the Secret Garden Market located on the lower level of Town Center at Lake Forest Park, 17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park, 98155.


Purchase Tickets

Vendor Registration


Market Hours: 9am to 3pm
Set up between 7:30am and 8:45am

The Garden Market features:

  • Plants that should thrive in our local area
  • Garden art
  • Related community organizations

If you are interested in participating in the Garden Market, please email [email protected]. You will be sent a registration form and other information regarding space specifications and fee.

Judging by the tremendous success of past Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park, the Garden Market will be a lively place, bustling with plantaholics looking for just the right plant or objet d’art.