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Thinking About Trees
Published: 09/07/2017I began thinking about trees, initially because they were absent and later because they were large. Bruce and I took a summer holiday in the UK in the course of which we walked...
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Downsizing is More Than a Verb
Published: 09/21/2017The word downsize, to make smaller, comes to mind as the flowers fade and the leaves in the garden change color. Nature is in the midst of her yearly ritual of trimming back her...
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A Nobel and a Nonprofit
Published: 10/29/2017 In 2017, Richard Thaler won the Nobel Prize in economics for pointing out that people frequently behave irrationally, but consistently so, when dealing with money.
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Winter Solstice
Published: 11/16/2017At Dunn Gardens we are coming up on our Winter Solstice Stroll, one of our flat out most loved events. If we are really honest, we are cheating and holding it ahead of schedule;...
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End of Year Thoughts
Published: 12/11/2017The end of the year is time to gather up the memories of the past year and we have our share in the Dunn Gardens.2017 has been full of what you would expect in a garden: blooms...
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Stalwarts in the Snow
Published: 01/03/2018I was living on site, and it was a no brainer I would wander Dunn Gardens and capture the 2017 Christmas snow as my meager photography skills allowed.
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Thoughts About Valentine's Day
Published: 01/08/2018In the very practical country and times in which I grew up in New Zealand, Valentine’s Day was not celebrated. So, when my husband and I moved to the US I was confused about the...
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Waiting for Magnolias
Published: 01/22/2018Outside the Trust Cottage in the Dunn Gardens where I live, is a mature magnolia, Sargent’s Magnolia. It's a bit easier to say than the Latin (Magnoliasargentia var robusta). Its...
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Waking Up in a Garden
Published: 02/11/2018My reaction in my youth to a prognosticator that I would, as an almost 70-year old woman, be working and living in a garden, would have been disbelief. But I am.
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Under the Wings of the Tocororo
Published: 03/06/2018‘El Crocodrilo’ is the playful term Cubans use when speaking of their island. On the back of the crocodile are six biosphere reserves protected by UNESCO containing 7,000 plant...
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An Unexpected Immigrant Turns Seventy
Published: 03/12/2018This blog is more personal than most.
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Scones in the Dunn Gardens
Published: 03/13/2018In the name of transparency this blog is not directly about gardens, as one would expect on a garden site. But if you stick with it you will learn how scones and the garden can be...
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Bouquets and Beyond
Published: 04/19/2018When the buds first pop in the spring I begin to think of the garden as one awfully large bouquet. Given Dunn Gardens hosts classes on floral arranging, not to mention weddings...
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Moving into June
Published: 05/15/2018So what is this about June being almost upon us? Six months into the year already I hear you mutter. How did that happen?I love June in Seattle. In my New Zealand childhood, June...
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The Pull of Signature Plants
Published: 06/13/2018Frequently, visitors to the Dunn remark on plantings in the garden in personal terms. “Poppies. Wonder how I can get mine to look like those.”
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Grandchildren and Bumblebees
Published: 07/09/2018On a recent walk my grandchildren explained to me that the rows of lavender along the sidewalk were “bobbing with bumblebees.” They chuckled as they ran the alliteration around...
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Singing Your Way Back to the Future
Published: 07/20/2018One of Dunn Gardens more imaginative events is coming up. It is called a Good Vibrations Party but is really a love fest of all the songs you remember growing up. If you went to...
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Around the World in 80 Gardens
Published: 08/02/2018I wish I could claim the blog title. It is borrowed from a 2008 television show and is, of course, a spin off of Jules Verne’s novel, Around the World in 80 Days. British...
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Garden Societies
Published: 08/23/2018Dunn Gardens is about to host a gathering of the Seattle Garden Club by way of thanks for their considerable generosity over the years.
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The Luck of an Olmsted Legacy
Published: 10/04/2018In 1889 men wore top hats, long dress coats, fitted jackets and plaid tweed suits. It is not impossible to imagine a particular young man of the time to be wearing the latter on a...
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