SEQUIM ­ — This could be the year when locals from Port Townsend and Forks, Port Angeles and Chimacum rise up and rediscover: There’s a herbaceous mecca in their collective backyard. It’s the ...

SEQUIM — If you’re looking for lavender, Sequim remains the place to go after nearly 30 years of embracing the purple, pink and white plant. Sequim’s first lavender event, the Sequim Lavender Festival ...

SEQUIM — Following traffic delays, minor collisions, and an estimated 3,000 extra vehicles on U.S. Highway 101, two friends put Sequim Lavender Weekend in perspective. “It was worth it for the ice ...

SEQUIM, Wash. — Sequim lavender farmers are still hard at work, even though the festival's cancelled again this year. Across the entire region acres of lavender are at their purple peak – and festival ...

SEQUIM — With plenty of photo-ops, treats, music and countless bundles of the popular plant available, Sequim Lavender Weekend will offer something for everyone. From Friday through Sunday, thousands ...

Sequim — the self-described Provence or lavender capital of North America — is the place to immerse yourself in all things lavender July 15 through 17. Indeed, this small Olympic Peninsula town ...

SEQUIM, Wash. — For the last 20-plus years Sequim has become the go-to place for anything lavender. In fact, the Sequim Lavender Festival has become such a draw, people from all over the globe attend ...

At Victor’s Lavender Farm, my nose was inches from its target, a cluster of purple buds as fragrant as a French perfumery, when a commanding voice called out from behind the planters. “Not those,” ...

Hop a ferry and linger in lavender. The Sequim Lavender Festival celebrates the Olympic Peninsula’s purplehood with everything lavender July 17 through 19 in Sequim. The plant grows like crazy in the ...

July and August are peak lavender season in Sequim, which is also known as “America’s Provence.” From that rain-shadow valley’s purple fields comes a new book, “Lavender: 50 Self-Care Recipes and ...