RICHLAND -- Amon Creek volunteers have restored more than 300 yards of old roadbed and need help hand watering the plants.
Contact Scott Woodward at 509-627-3621.
Koi and Pond Club to meet Tuesday
KENNEWICK -- The Mid-Columbia Koi and Pond Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the home of Rod and Eileen Thorne, 4401 W. 14th Ave., Kennewick.
Anyone interested in ponds and fish is welcome to attend. For more information, call 308-5024.
Orchid society to meet in Kennewick
KENNEWICK -- The South Central Washington Orchid Society will meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 15 at Edison Elementary School, 201 S. Dawes, St., Kennewick.
Members will be bringing divisions of their plants to share and sell.
For more information, go to www.scworchidsociety.org.
Master Gardener sale set for Sept. 19
KENNEWICK -- Washington State University Extension Master Gardener is holding a perennial plant sale Sept. 19.
The sale will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the WSU Extension office, 5600 W. Canal Drive., one block west of Edison Avenue, in Kennewick.
The Master Gardeners will have a wide variety of trees, shrubs, herbs, native plants, ground covers, grasses and shade-loving plants, garden phlox in various colors, salvia with its purple blooms, yellow coreopsis and more to choose from.
There also will be spring flowering bulbs which have been raised in a Prosser garden. They will be packaged according to bloom time allowing gardeners to plan for a long spring show.
Master Gardeners will be on hand to give gardening advice and offer suggestions for picking the right plant for the right location.
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A Pasco man and medical marijuana user urged the Pasco City Council to set up rules to allow collective gardens for patients so the city can benefit from taxing their use.
Council members Monday discussed how to move forward after passing a six-month moratorium on starting shared gardens last month.
A state law that went into effect July 22 changes the voter-approved initiative that allows authorized patients to use cannabis to treat some terminal and chronic illnesses to instead allow a single garden to have up to 45 plants grown by 10 patients collectively.
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