When November's epic rainfall caused 6 feet of flooding at Ferndale's Hovander Homestead Park, Whatcom County Master Gardeners' demonstration gardens and greenhouses at the site were in deep trouble.
Barbara King, the chair of this year's Whatcom Master Gardener Plant Sale, said that despite the extensive damage, it could've been worse.
Everything at the park was coated in a film of silt, gravel paths were stripped bare, fences were washed away, signposts were demolished and the over
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