Sequim Lavender Festival 2015

Welcome to all our visitor to the Sequim Lavender Festival 2015!

As usual Sequim residents get excited when the week of the festival is here. So here it is. Best news for the lavender growers, vendors and our Sequim visitors: the weather turned nice again with showing the fairly warm summer weather, which is much preferred to the unusual hot summer days in June and the beginning of July, which made the lavender bloom much earlier this year. No worries you will find still plenty of lavender to take home from Sequim with you.

Purple Haze Lavender Farm

What is new at this year's Lavender Festival?

***There won't be a Lavender Festival in the Park this year,

which we think is totally OK because the farm tours and the street fair will take all our visitors' attention anyways.

***Farm tours will be FREE this year! Seven great lavender farms are included in the tours.

***The Lavender Street Fair in Fir St will be the big attraction as usual with its abundance of stands by lavender growers and vendors of plenty of arts and crafts products. Not to forget plenty of food selection and entertainment will be available over the three day festival. Sequim is hosting the largest lavender event in North America. We are proud of it!

There will be fun for everyone. Come and and see!

Impression of the street fair

Sequim Lavender Festival in the Park 2012

Sequim lavender lovers got their share of beautiful lavender flowers & lavender products at the 2012 Sequim Lavender Festival with two festivals at the same time: Lavender in the Park and the Lavender Street Fair in Fir. However, the weather did not cooperate for the entire time. Sunday, which is normally the day with the best sales of vendors' lavender products, was rainy the entire day. Lucky us, that we visited 'Lavender in the Park' on Saturday.

'Lavender in the Park' photos taken by Sequim Vacation blog:

Sequim Lavender in the Park


Sequim lavender rock garden in the park


Sequim visitors and residents love their rock garden


Music at Lavender in the Park or each Tuesday 6pm during summer


Keoki admires lavender plants


More lavender plants at 'Lavender in the Park'


Meeting our Sequim friends Edie & Brian at Lavender in the Park


Owner of Sequim Raptor Rescue Center attracts big crowd with his talk + owl


Visit Sequim WA site for more information on current and future events on your Sequim vacation.

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Sequim Lavender Festival 'Lavender in the Park'

Everybody who loves Sequim, loves the Lavender Festival. It's big fun for Sequim visitors and great business for Sequim town. And we, the regular Sequim residents not involved in selling lavender but just growing our own lavender bushes in our front and back yards, enjoy the biggest events 'Sequim Lavender Festival' each year as well.

In our recent Sequim town blog post, we mentioned that this 2011 Lavender Festival will be different. Well, the Peninsula Daily News had it all put together for us in their recent article about the the 'Lavender in the Park' group. That was definitely an interesting article!

Here is what will be different at this 2011 Sequim Lavender Festival:

The newly formed Sequim Lavender Farmers Association named its Lavender Festival 'Lavender in the Park', which already indicates that they will have their events at 'Carrie Blake Park', 'Guy Cole Community Center' and the stage of 'James Center for the Performing Arts'. They new 'Lavender in the Park' Lavender Farmers group will offer the tour buses to the 6 Sequim Lavender Farms, which formed the new group, among them such wellknown Lavender Farms as Purple Haze Lavender and Jardin du Soleil Lavender, just to name two.

The original lavender festival organization 'Sequim Lavender Growers Association' will continue its street fair on Fir Street near downtown as they did for the last 15 years, but won't have guided farm tours to the Lavender farms.

Read the full Peninsula Daily News article about the 2011 Sequim Lavender Festival.

Basically it looks like we will be having two Sequim Lavender Festivals this year. Seems like we all will benefit of the ongoing competition between the two groups because I just read on this announcement by the Sequim Lavender Growers Association that their farm tours will be FREE this year. Sequim Lavender Festival visitors for July 15 - 17 event will love it! I even heard that the buses to the 6 lavender farms will be FREE but that still needs to be confirmed.

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Sequim Lavender Festival talk of Sequim town

Can Sequim support two lavender festivals at the same time?

That’s a question that will be answered in July of this year. We have had an abundance of visitors to previous Sequim lavender festivals and it seemed to run pretty smoothly, all things considered.

Well, there are obviously philosophical differences among the many Sequim lavender growers and those whose differences were the same decided to take matters into their hands and break off and form a new group of lavender growers, according to the Peninsula Daily News of January 12, 2011.

This new group, not to be left out of the very popular,annual lavender festival has stated that they will participate in the festival, but to what extent is unknown at this printing. We will have to wait until this July to see how things turn out. 2011brings a new challenging situation to Sequim Lavender growers and Sequim visitors. Sequim Town blog will keep you posted.

Hummingbirds in Sequim

Dear Sequim Town blog visitors,

Believe me this year's Lavender Festival in Sequim was a huge success. It was our third Sequim Lavender Festival ever since we moved here but this one went through the roof. One could hardly make his way through the street fair and the buses to the Sequim Lavender Farms had even people waiting in line for the next bus, at least when we went by the bus stop.

I was also under impression that the number of business booths had increased whether it was lavender products - the seducing smell was everywhere - or hats, jewelery, signs, leather bags, t-shirts, you name it, you could find it at our street fair in Fir St.

Now, let's jump to our today's post topic. When we moved to Sequim from Hawaii in 2006, we knew all about Sequim weather, annual precipitation, number of people living here, house prices and such. However, we did not know that Sequim is an oasis of hummingbirds. Actually, we did not know much about humming birds because those fun little creatures are not around in Hawaii. Read what Wikipedia has to say about hummingbirds.

Finally, when spring 2009 came to Sequim, we decided to set up a hummingbird feeder on our kitchen balcony where our little dining table is located for taking our meals. After we had watched how all our friends and neighbors enjoyed many visits by their little hummingbird, we wanted to have our own hummingbirds too, and believe us so we do. The following hummingbird video will show.

After having set up the hummingbird feeder on the balcony and adding some sugar water 1/4 cup on 2 cups of water, we had to wait a few days till the birdies showed up. What still amazes me is that the hummingbirds would still try our feeder with all the other hummingbird feeders out there by our Sequim neighbors.

Now, we love our little hummingbird friends on their daily visits and miss them when they don't show up. Anyways, watch Keoki's hummingbird video. He took it with our new digital camera - amazing what those modern cameras can do theses days - and we uploaded it to youtube. Enjoy our Sequim hummingbird video!

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Sequim 13th Lavender Festival biggest Sequim Event of the Year

The 13th Annual Sequim Lavender Festival is looking round the corner. We already see more visitors in little Sequim town. The big lavender festival event days will be this weekend Friday 16 - Sunday 19 at 10am - 6pm. Last year the lavender was not yet in full bloom for the Festival after a colder and wetter spring season but believe us this year, all the Sequim lavender fields are blooming and sending out this intoxicating and seducing smell of lavender.

We have friends from Hawaii visiting and will be happy to share all the great things in Sequim to do during the Lavender Festival. Sequim visitors and residents alike can buy tickets for the farm tours at $15 a person, children under 12 are free. This lavender ticket allows you to tour all the 7 Sequim Lavender farms like famous Lost Mountain Lavender Farm, Purple Haze, Jardin du Soleil Lavender and more. You may watch and listen to growers share their techniques about growing, drying and using lavender. You can use the tour bus on all three days for free.

In addition to visiting the lavender farms and buying lots of freshly cut lavender and lavender products there, the lavender street fair will offer 150 crafts and lavender booths, food, music and shopping in downtown Sequim. We had such a great time last year and will definitely return.


I never added my photos from the last year's Lavender street fair. Here are Sequim photos to give you a taste of what you may expect at the Sequim street fair. Enjoy Sequim, the Lavender festival, the very friendly Sequim people and our Sequim street fair photos.

Here is some special information for dog owners:

Sequim's famous and unique 'dog sitting' program for the Sequim Lavender Festival operated by Gentle Paws, provides safe comfort for your dog while you enjoy the street fair and the lavender farms. Sorry dogs cannot be allowed on the farms. You will find the location downtown Sequim where the tour buses to the Lavender Farms take off.

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Visit Sequim for Sequim Lavender Festival 2008

It's time to talk the talk about Sequim, it's lavender fields and the Sequim Lavender Festival. The 12th Annual Sequim Lavender Festival, the biggest highlight for our small town Sequim, is quickly approaching. It will take place July 18 - 20. When we were picking strawberries at the Cameron strawberry fields, this Japanese couple talked to us and asked us where they could see some lavender? Well, we said it's all around you, as there is hardly any private garden which does not grow at least a few bushes of lavender. Our own lavender bushes at home are in full bloom. We noticed though that lavender farms grow a later kind, which is also grown at the entrance to Carrie Blake Park.

Despite the cooler weather this spring, the lavender farm growers believe that their fields will be in full bloom by the festival. Everybody in Sequim who is in the lavender business is getting business ready for thousands of visitors, tending to their lavender fields and filling up their stores with their own lavender products.

Lavender Farm Tour tickets cost $15 for adults (children age 12 and under are free) and allow you admission to eight lavender farms for all three days of the festival with unlimited use of the farm tour buses.You can buy tickets at the Sequim-Dungeness Chamber of Commerce 1192 E. You may also go shopping at the online Lavender Store offering beautiful lavender posters, calendars and even a Lavender Festival Dinner by Cedar Creek restaurant.

If you are still looking for a place to stay during the Sequim Lavender Festival, our fully equipped 1Bd/1Ba 'Bell Hill View' Sequim Vacation Rental is still available. Please, email us with subject 'Sequim Rental Lavender Festival' for rate and reservation. Why not visit Sequim for the Sequim Lavender Festival!

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Beautiful Sequim Vacation

Well, our much awaited 2007 Sequim Lavender Festival is history. We had a nice crowd of visitors who joined the fun at the street market in Fir St with music, lots of lavender products to buy and great tasty food to eat. Fragrant lavender scent was in the air everywhere! The lavender farm tour buses were running all day long.

Sure it would have been nicer with sunshine - Sequim summer weather was beautiful before and after the Lavender Festival. How ironic! Sequim Gazette wrote that Sequim had 5000 visitors less at this year's festival. Whether the reason was the overcast weather or not.

Everybody had a great time and guess what we did not have to cope with hot temperatures over the 100 F as so many states had. It was already too much when Sequim temperatures reached a decade high of 94 F on one day at the beginning of July. We even ran our AC with our heat pump. We feel blessed with our moderate Sequim weather. Who wants hot, go to Mexico or just California!

I promised a few lavender photos. Here they are. I took them at Purple Haze Lavender Farm. The colors, the smell and the location! Come and see for yourself on your next Sequim vacation. Don't wait till next year. Sequim weather in August and September invite for some great week or weekend vacation...hiking the Olympic Mountains, biking the Olympic Discovery Trail, picking berries are all favorites of ours!

If you consider moving to Sequim, first come and visit Sequim for a vacation. When looking for real estate or a house to buy in Sequim, we happily share our experience with you. We are excited to help a couple from Colorado to give them our view of life in Sequim! More from sunny Sequim with the blue hole soon. The Sequimers

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Sequim Lavender Festival YOUtube Video

Wow, I have to share this video with all of you, Sequim residents who are proud of Sequim and its Lavender Festival, and everybody else who plans a visit to the Lavender Festival this year.

Get a taste of the Sequim Lavender Festival with this Youtube Lavender Festival video by travel channel with Mark de Carlo. The Travel Channel's "Taste of America" visits the Annual Sequim Lavender Festival. Watch the full video below.

The 11th Sequim Lavender Festival is awaiting your visit. Have a great time in Sequim.

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Sequim Lavender Festival

Before we moved to Sequim at the beginning of 2006, we had done our homework and read everything what was available on this small retirement town on the Olympic Peninsula. Most impressive features apart from the amazing beautiful location of Sequim, embedded in Sequim Dungeness Valley between the Paicific Ocean and Olympic Mountains, was the special Sequim weather & the love for festivals. It was then that we heard for the first time about Sequim is the lavender capital of the world and about the Sequim Lavender Festival!

We already talked at our Sequim Town blog about a number of other big festivals, one of the biggest and oldest is the Sequim Irrigation Festival. The Sequim Lavender Festival is much younger but as it is in the middle of summer and people spending some fun vacation on the Olympic Peninsula anyways, it seems to attract many more visitors from other states and even around the world. The 11th Annual Sequim Lavender Festival takes place July 20, 21, & 22, 2007.

If you have not booked your vacation rental or Sequim B&B yet, you might be already out of luck. Here are a few Sequim Hotels & Lodges you want to try.

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Sequim Econo Lodge
Sequim Ramada Inn
Sequim Sunset Marine Resort

When here on your Sequim vacation or coming for a visit to the Sequim Lavender Festival, get the most out of your stay and join the eight beautiful Farms on Tour in the stunning Sequim-Dungeness Valley. Enjoy the fragrant essence of purple lavender fields swaying in the breeze, the seemingly never ending fields of beautiful purple lavender plants and the many tastes of lavender. Visit the Street Fair, featuring Northwest crafts and Olympic Coast cuisine. Join more than 35,000 visitors from all over the world in this glorious Festival!

As newcomers to Sequim, we liked the recent articles in the 'Sequim This Week' about two big Sequim Lavender Farms. Owners Randy and Pam Nichols started their lavender farm Jardin du Soleil Lavender in 1999 and have turned it into one of the regions most successful oil producers.With the lavender festival approaching, they are preparing to greet thousands of fans of the unique fragrant calming herb.They offer a wide variety of lavender products at their farm store and through their online store at JardinDuSoleil

Another successful Lavender Farm in Sequim is Cedarbrook Lavender & Herb Farm which celebrates its 40th anniversary. This lavender farm is the state's oldest and first herb farm New owners Gary and Marcella Stachurski, who bought the farm in 2005, watch over thousands of lavender plants and other herbs and flowers. They feel lucky to be part of the history of the oldest lavender farm in the state.

In preparing for their third Sequim Lavender Festival they told Sequim This Week that they have plenty of surprises for people who visit their farm. One open secret is their new restaurant Cafe Provence (former Petals) will have music each evening and serve a buffet-style meal to limit waiting time.

The Sequim Lavender Festival is a production of the Sequim Lavender Growers Association. The SLGA is comprised of over 30 lavender farms in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley. Find out more on the SLGA website. For Lavender Festival Information email 877-681-3035 (toll free).

With our visit to Sequim lavender farms at the festival, we will try to snap some good shots of lavender fields and flowers. It's not just for our blog. We also intend to make those into beautiful photos. Wal Mart offers this great service to make your photos into posters. We see you at the 11th Sequim Lavender Festival. Don't forget we have a leave a comment button. Sequim vacationers and vistors love to hear from your and your visit to the festival.
Thanks a lot. The Sequimers

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