Washington Koi and Water Garden Society

Welcome to the Washington Koi & Water Garden Society. We are a group of koi keepers and water garden fanciers who enjoy getting together on Zoom, pond tours, field trips, and summer outdoor meetings, including last year’s Koi Fest. Prior to the Covid outbreak, we put on koi shows for 28 years. We share ideas and help one another and provide a monthly newsletter with relevant articles to members.
During membership meetings, we have educational programs on koi health, pond construction, koi varieties, aquatic plants, nutrition, filtration, and water quality, among others. We are a non-profit hobbyist organization, and we are affiliated with the Pacific Northwest Koi Clubs Association and Koi Organisation International. Our Executive Board meets regularly to plan a variety of activities for our membership.
We suggest that if you are even thinking about constructing a koi pond, join a koi club such as ours and get as much information as possible before taking that first shovelful of dirt. Also, it isn’t necessary to have koi to enjoy ponds. Beautifully planted ponds or ponds with goldfish, or even pondless waterfalls provide pleasurable moments to WK & WGS members, even though our focus is on koi, our “living jewels.”
We are a koi community, and we are here to help.

Upcoming Events and Important News
Join us August 23rd at 2 p.m. for “Sundaes on Sunday” at Barb and Lee Sundgren’s pond and garden. In addition to the ice cream, we will be learning about RDFs—Rotary Drum Filters—from Derek Boucher, of Play It Koi. What are they? How do they work? And why might we want one? Derek has joined us on Zoom programs in the past, and it will be super to hear from him about this filter and meet him in person.
Check your August newsletter for directions to Sundgren’s; if you aren’t a member but would like to come, call 206-949-2402 and let Nancy Moore, Program Chair, know. Also, for WK & WGS members, please RSVP that you will be joining in on the fun so we know how much ice cream and toppings to have.



