by Maya Klem | Apr 18, 2019 | Restoration Resources
For Native Plant Appreciation Week we asked our staff and volunteers to pick a favorite native plant — which is a difficult task! Most of us struggled to pick just one of our favorites because the Pacific Northwest has so many beautiful, charismatic, fun, and...
by Christine Stephens | Jan 7, 2019 | Restoration Resources
How are your plant identification skills? Are you wanting a little extra challenge? Have you ever been curious about a plant during the winter but couldn’t tell what it was? Whether you’re a beginner looking to spice up your winter hikes with a new skill,...
by Maya Klem | Oct 15, 2018 | Find Your Forest, Restoration Resources
On the Green Seattle Day poster it says “Plant a Tree.” That is a bit of an over simplification of what will be going down on Green Seattle Day. The Green Seattle Partnership plants native trees, like Douglas-fir and western redcedar, but the majority of the plants...
by Chris Rippey | Jul 24, 2018 | Restoration Resources
In the last two-years, Seattle Parks and Recreation Urban Forestry staff have received increasing reports of dead Thuja plicata, Western redcedars, in Seattle Parks. Our arborists have also been observing more Western redcedar deaths in the last several years. I have...
by Michael Yadrick | Jul 19, 2018 | Restoration Resources
History of Seattle’s Madrones In the late 1800s, explorers mistakenly named Seattle’s Magnolia area after seeing an abundance of broadleaf evergreen trees common to the Salish Sea and Puget Trough – Arbutus menziesii or Pacific madrone. Nurtured by nature,...
by Green Seattle | Jun 14, 2018 | Guest Posts, Restoration Resources
Some of the smallest visitors to Seattle’s forested parklands are also some of the most vital. I am referring not to toddlers but to pollinators – those birds and insects that make plant reproduction possible. In an effort to better welcome these creatures...
