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Vintage Cars in the Gardens
Saturday, August 8, five vintage cars will grace the Dunn for the day and be featured in a garden party to celebrate the Gardens’ Centennial.
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Autumn is Wise
Winter is dead; spring is crazy; summer is cheerful and autumn is wise! ~Mehmet Murat ildan
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Watching the Season
An idle check of events in Seattle during October reveals a preponderance of pumpkin-centered activities, not to mention beer festivals are on offer.
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Art in the Garden
An article in The New York Times (October 5, 2015) by Alva Noë about the place of art in people’s lives made me pause.
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Let’s Hear it for Evergreens
In botany an evergreen plant is always green because it retains its leaves throughout the seasons.
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Folklore in the Garden
At this time of year the garden is more twig than leaf, despite the attempts of crocus, snowdrops, hellebores, and the like, to break through winter bleakness.
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Dunn, Cornish and Cascadia: Arts and Visionaries in Seattle
Val Easton, who writes the column, Natural Gardener, in the local ‘Seattle Times,’ noted recently that garden design has been called one of the slowest performing arts.
View ArticleThe Glory of Estate Gardens
Estate gardens - landscapes complementing a stately building - have long and storied histories.
View ArticleA Piece of Garden Magic
Since I work in administration many emails I receive begin with ‘confirming our meeting,’ or something equally as arresting.
View ArticleThe Intangible or the Practical
At a recent Dunn Gardens fundraising event, patrons were enchanted by a retrospective of artistic endeavors from Cornish College of the Arts.
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Trees, Tours, Socks, Little Old Ladies, and Garden Conservation
“Oh!” said one of the little old ladies. I was leading four of them on an unexpected tour of the Gardens and, at that moment, we were standing under the spreading sugar maple (Acer saccharum). “I...
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Music in the Garden
Music and gardens have a long and happy connection—the beauty of one inspiring the beauty of the other. Paintings spring to mind initially. Artists ranging from the intriguing Hieronymus Bosch to...
View ArticleFlamingos and Hedgehogs and Gary Anderson
Curious is the only word to describe the Wonderland that Alice experiences after falling into drowsy dream.
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September. Already.
“September. Already.” We say it every year and there is some comfort in that annual surprise. But the 2016 version is pressing upon us.
View ArticleThe Fruit of the Storm
October storm forecast. High winds. Garden. Not words you want to hear together in the same sentence. Would the heritage trees we hold in such high regard falter in the projected weather? Perhaps we’d...
View ArticleMoles and the Thankful Season.
Given we are closing in on the “thankful season,” I uttered my appreciation out loud this week for the particular benefit of working in a garden.
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Breakfast Yields Drifts of Erythronuim
Whimsical, unexpected moments. They can change lives for the better.
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