Washington Native Plant Society, Central Puget Sound Chapter

05/30/2026

Join our chapter at Pollinator Fest today in Woodinville. Go Natives! and Tadpole Haven Native Plants will be there too, so it's a good opportunity to buy native plants.

Pollinator Fest 2026 our annual celebration of pollinators a free Sammamish Valley community event Saturday, May 30, 2026 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. at 21 Acres 13701 NE 171st St., Woodinville Education Learn about the relationship between native plants and native pollinatorsDiscover alternatives to che...

05/09/2026

A sneak preview of tomorrow's Magnuson Park Native Plant Tour. 12-2 at The Mountaineers Native Plant Garden and 2-3 at the Meadow. For details see https://www.facebook.com/events/1236129861933076

05/02/2026

04/25/2026

Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow at our Spring Native Plant Sale at Bellevue Botanical Garden from 10 to 2. (We will be welcoming members at 9:30.)

04/22/2026

Our Spring Plant Sale list for this Saturday's sale is now on our web page! Please click here for the list. Please note that these are the plants we ordered but occasionally a species does not perform as expected due to weather or other unforeseen event and we may not know this until delivery on Friday afternoon. It’s our best estimate of what we will have available for the sale. See you Saturday!

https://www.wnps.org/cps-programs/plant-sale

04/16/2026

Another great May event!

04/15/2026

Mark your calendar! Our chapter will be hosting a booth at this fun event. For more information, check out their web page: https://pollinatorpathwaynw.org/pollinator-fest-2026/

04/01/2026

Celebrate Native Plant Appreciation Month with CPS board member Julie O'Donald at the Kingsgate Library in Kirkland. Julie will share tips on choosing native plants that will give your landscape a sense of place and ease of maintenance, while providing habitat value.

Discover tips on choosing native plants that will give your landscape a sense of place and ease of maintenance. Julie O'Donald is a Community Wildlife Habitat Steward with the National Wildlife Federation as well as a long-term volunteer for the Washington Native Plant Society. She will share her ex...

03/23/2026

Swamp Lantern Festival at the NW Stream Center

Celebrate the first flowering native plants!

Looking for an alternative to Tulip Festival traffic jams? Enjoy the SWAMP LANTERN FESTIVAL now through April, at AASF’s Northwest Stream Center Nature Trail located in Snohomish County’s McCollum Park, 600 -128th Street SE, Everett WA 98208, Tuesdays through Saturdays 10am to 4pm.

Vibrant yellow Swamp Lanterns, AKA skunk cabbage, are blooming, along with all the wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest. Reserve a space online (www.streamkeeper.org) or by calling 425-315-8592; General admission $7, Seniors $6, Students $5, EBT cardholders $3, Kids 5 and under free. Sorry, no dogs allowed on the Nature Trail.

After checking in at the Northwest Stream Center, you will go on the universally accessible ½ mile-long Nature Trail that leads you past a Trout Stream Exhibit with viewing widows into freshwater stream habitat. Then you go onto an amazing Elevated Forest and Wetland Walk that winds through more than 20-acres next to North Creek, 3-feet above the forest floor and surrounding wetlands.

Beautiful interpretive signs provide a great introduction to northwest natural resources. Along the way you will also see many other native flowers popping out. Another great thing about the Nature Walk is no more than 5 visitors are allowed every 15 minutes, so you are never in a crowd.

03/05/2026

Study Weekend is an annual WNPS Member event focused on botany with field trips, speakers, and more. Get ready to join the members of the Washington Native Plant Society to celebrate the beauty of Washington State and enjoy the camaraderie of local and fellow botanists and plant enthusiasts! For more details check out the web page: https://www.wnps.org/wnps-annual-events/study-weekend