The 17th Annual West Seattle Garden Tour is this Sunday, July 17 featuring ten show piece residential gardens including a 2.5-acre estate garden. Garden descriptions and photos can be found on the tour's website and a few photos are available on their Facebook page.

Guest Lecturer: Sue Goetz: "Perennial Creativity"
Award winning garden designer, writer and speaker Sue Goetz is this year's guest lecturer. Her work has earned gold medals at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show and the Point Defiance Flower and Garden show as well as the Fine Gardening magazine "Best Design" award. Northwest Home and Garden Magazine has named her as one of the top 50 garden designers.

The Sue Goetz Luncheon Lecture is at the West Seattle Golf Course from noon to 1:00 pm. The lecture is included in the price of the ticket and box lunches will be available for purchase at the lecture venue for $10 each.

Garden Tour Raffle
Tickets for the raffle offering a variety of prizes are $5, $2 or $1 each. Tickets are available for purchase during the tour at Gardens F, I and J and during the lecture at the WS Golf Course. They are also available at sales table outside WS Nursery. Enter as many times as you wish.

Tickets are available at these area locations and online:

Admiral Metropolitan Market
2320 42nd Ave SW, Seattle

ArtsWest Theatre
4711 California Ave SW, Seattle

Junction True Value
4747 44th Ave SW, Seattle

Swansons Nursery
9701 15th Ave NW, Seattle

Village Green Perennial Nursery
10223 26th Ave SW, Seattle

Wells-Medina Nursery
8300 NE 24th, Medina

West Seattle Nursery
5275 California Ave SW, Seattle

Ticket vouchers online at: www.brownpapertickets.com

Begun as a fundraising event for the ArtsWest Theatre, the West Seattle Garden Tour has evolved into an annual fundraising event for a variety of non-profit and educational organizations in West Seattle and its surrounding communities.