Valerie Easton

Valerie Easton is a weekly garden columnist for Pacific Northwest Magazine of The Seattle Times. She has contributed articles on gardens, homes, and the people who make them to a variety of magazines, including Metropolitan Home, Fine Gardening, and Gardens Illustrated.

Valerie trained as a Master Gardener and was for eighteen years the horticultural librarian at the University of Washington in Seattle. She gardens, teaches yoga, and blogs in the village of Langley, on Whidbey Island, Washington, and her own garden has been published in The New York Times, This Old House, and Horticulture.

You may also be interested in the author's own Web site, www.ValEaston.com.

Upcoming events for Valerie Easton

  • March 15: Valerie Easton at Eugene Avid Gardens

    Valerie will present "Low Maintenance Gardening: Modern Methods That Don't Deplete the Earth's Resources or Your Energies." (time: 6:30 p.m.; location: 1645 High St., Eugene, Oregon; contact: Alice Doyle, alice@loghouseplants.com; event Web site)

  • March 20: Whidbey Gardening Workshop

    Val Easton will be the keynote speaker. (contact: Terry Rose, 360-678-6081, troseproductions@hotmail.com)

  • April 6: Valerie Easton at Village Books

    Valerie will give a brief talk and sign books. (time: 7 p.m.; contact: Nan Macy, 360-733-1599)

  • May 1: Valerie Easton at Molbak's

    Valerie will give a talk and sign books. (location: 13625 NW 175th, Woodinville, Washington; contact: Lisa Moses, lmoses@molbaks.com)