Fancy Fronds Nursery | Fronderosa Frolic 2011 | Annual Plant Sale

Fabulous Fronderosa Frolic 2011

You are invited to
The Fabulous Fronderosa Frolic
August 13th-14th from
10am-3pm, 2011

“Fronderosa Frolic is a celebration of plants and summer… that has become the horticultural equivalent of Woodstock”. (Val Easton, Seattle Times column, 4/8/04)

A festival of rare plants, garden art, artifacts, scintillating botanical conversations with some of the Northwest’s premier specialty growers and garden artists. Specialty nurseries are rapidly disappearing due to the aggressive marketing done by the large wholesale growers. Many of the new plants introduced by these commercial growers are first discovered or grown by keen growers operating small specialty nurseries. Please support them if you are interested in a diverse range of plants that have been correctly identified and tested to thrive in your gardens.

There is a raffle every hour of donations from our vendors to benefit the Equine Stewardship Center, NWESC. This non profit horse rescue and rehabilitation center also offers classes in equine care. Fancy Fronds has been using horse manure for garden beds and as a potting additive for over thirty years. Bring a bucket or bag and you can take away some of this "horsey goodness"!

Directions the Frolic

Directions to the Fronderosa
Google Map To Fancy Fronds

Option 1: I-5 to HWY 2 East.
Take exit 194 off I-5 in Everett. Take HWY 2 East approximately 30 miles towards Gold Bar.

Option 2: From I-405 take exit 23, to 522. Take 522 east to Monroe.

Turn left at the junction of HWY 2 and HWY 522 in Monroe, follow HWY 2, east to Gold Bar.
We recommend that you try to arrive at the junction of I-405 and I-5 before 3:00pm.
If traffic is good, this is the fastest route from Seattle. Google Directions

Option 3: Scenic Route: (about 1 1/2 hours from Seattle)
If you want to take a slower more scenic route you may go east on I-90 either from I-5 or I-405 to the Preston/Fall City exit. Turn left off the freeway, go over the freeway and turn right and follow the road which will take you through Preston to Fall City. At the stop sign in Fall City turn right, then get in the left turn lane to turn left onto SR203 which will take you to Carnation, Duvall, and Monroe. You can either turn right onto Ben Howard road, and skip Monroe, where it will meet with HWY 2 again in Sultan. Or you can continue to Monroe. In Monroe turn right at the traffic light. This is Main street and it will run into HWY 2 at the traffic light. Turn right and head east on HWY 2 to Gold Bar.

Using the google map link above, you can see these routes more quickly.

The road leading to Fancy Fronds is a narrow private lane. Parking attendants are on hand to direct you in and out as well as to a parking spot. Thank you for you patience.

Specialty Nurseries in Attendance

A Plethora of Primulas, Vader, WA
Bloom River Gardens, Eugene, OR
Botanica, Seattle, WA
Chimacum Woods, Port Ludlow, WA
Cistus Designs, Portland, OR
Collectors Nursery, Battle Ground, WA
Courting Frogs Nursery, Stanwood, WA
Dancing Oaks Nursery, Monmouth, OR
Fairmeadows Nursery, Olympia, WA
Fuschia Gypst ~ Olympia, WA
Far Reaches Farm, Port Townsend, WA
Keeping it Green ~ Stanwood, WA
Mt. Forest Farm, Snohomish, WA
Mt. Tahoma Nursery, Graham, WA
Pan’s Garden, Olympia, WA
Steamboat Island Nursery, Olympia, WA
The Desert Northwest, Poulsbo, WA

Artists and Garden Accessories

ALBE Adventuresome Twig Furniture: Rustic twig furniture & garden structures
at Wits End: multi-media artist Vera welcomes custom orders (360)-907-2632
Garden Accents by Joyce ~ concrete garden art
Glass Gardens NW: Barbara Sanderson’s hand blown water features, sculptures, and lights, glassgardensnw.com
Image Custom Iron Works: Trellis, arbors, gates, pyramids of welded iron. Custom orders welcomed (206) 909-6318

If you have additional questions, please contact judith@fancyfronds.com, or call (360) 793-1472.