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- "Celebrate Harvest" Story Time
3501 NE 41st Street, Seattle, WA 98195
Saturday, November 14 at 10:00am - Caring for the Mature Garden (...
Douglas classroom, Center for Urban...
Wednesday, November 18 at 6:30pm - In My Nature book launch recep...
Elisabeth C. Miller Library
Monday, November 30 at 6:30pm
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Connie Sidles knows the birds at the Montlake Fill. She's been visiting almost daily for 20 years.
Hear her read from her new book, In My Nature: A Birder's Year at the Montlake Fill, during a free public reception in the Miller Library Monday, Nov. 30.
Miller Library news & events: http://depts.washington.edu/hortlib/ca...lendar/news_events.shtml
KUOW interview with Connie Sidles: http://kuow.org/program.php?id=17451
Audubon Society profile of Connie Sidles: http://www.seattleaudubon.org/sas/GetInv
Hear her read from her new book, In My Nature: A Birder's Year at the Montlake Fill, during a free public reception in the Miller Library Monday, Nov. 30.
Miller Library news & events: http://depts.washington.edu/hortlib/ca...lendar/news_events.shtml
KUOW interview with Connie Sidles: http://kuow.org/program.php?id=17451
Audubon Society profile of Connie Sidles: http://www.seattleaudubon.org/sas/GetInv
Free reception for Connie Sidles' new book
Time:6:30PM Monday, November 30th
Location:Elisabeth C. Miller Library
UW Botanic Gardens
Solve a gardening problem with Cecil, and then celebrate the harvest! This month's Young Gardeners' Story Time at the Elisabeth C. Miller Library features 3 books:
Cecil's Garden by Holly Keller
The Surprise Garden by Zoe Hall
Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert
Story Time at the Miller Library is a free monthly publ...ic program especially for children ages 2 to 8 and their families.
Learn more: http://depts.washington.edu/hortlib/cale
Cecil's Garden by Holly Keller
The Surprise Garden by Zoe Hall
Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert
Story Time at the Miller Library is a free monthly publ...ic program especially for children ages 2 to 8 and their families.
Learn more: http://depts.washington.edu/hortlib/cale
Young Gardeners Story Time at the Miller Library
Time:10:00AM Saturday, November 14th
Location:3501 NE 41st Street, Seattle, WA 98195
UW Botanic Gardens When people say "It's a jungle out there," are they referring to your garden? Registration for this class has begun.
Older gardens need love, too
Location:Douglas classroom, Center for Urban Horticulture
Time:6:30PM Wednesday, November 18th
UW Botanic Gardens Okay, all you rain-fearless folks! Last month's Union Bay Natural Area restoration work party was fabulous, with 80 people showing up. Now we'll see who the exceptionally noble diehards are. And if the sun breaks through and you don't get wet? We'll still think you're exceptionally noble! See you this Saturday 11/7 from 9-11 am.
80 people showed up for our last one - woohoo!
Location:Union Bay Natural Area, UW Botanic Gardens
Time:9:00AM Saturday, November 7th
UW Botanic Gardens Learn about Washington's native rare plants. Wendy Gibble of Washington Rare Plant Care & Conservation (part of UW Botanic Gardens) speaks Thurs 11/5 at a Washington Native Plant Society meeting at the Center for Urban Horticulture. Public is invited!
Source: www.wnps.org
A description of the presentation, location and time of the meeting.
UW Botanic Gardens Reserve your space at Val Easton’s book launch (“The New Low-Maintenance Garden”), Center for Urban Horticulture 11/16, 6:30 PM. $18 benefits Miller Library. Plant raffle, slide lecture, dessert buffet, book sales & author signing! Reservations: info@northwesthort.org, Karin 206-780-8172.
Location:3501 NE 41st St., Seatle, WA 98105
Time:6:30PM Monday, November 16th
UW Botanic Gardens Chrysanthemum 'Apricot,' in bloom now in the Soest Garden, likes full sun . . . and it gives your garden a little sunshine even on cloudy October-November days.
UW Botanic Gardens October Spooktacular at the Arboretum offers rain or shine Halloween fun for families with kids ages 6-12. Search for freaky fungi, creepy crawlies & hunters that “haunt” the arboretum. Bring your own flashlight! Plus games, crafts. Drop in 4-8pm, $6.
Who's haunting the Arboretum?
Location:Graham Visitors Center, Washington Park Arboretum
Time:4:00PM Saturday, October 31st
UW Botanic Gardens Walk-ups welcome! (Preregistration is closed.) Pay at the door. Tonight's open house starts at 5:30. The talk on the arboretum and urban sanctuaries starts at 7:00 pm.
Open house & lecture by Scot Medbury
Location:Center for Urban Horticulture
Time:5:30PM Thursday, October 29th
UW Botanic Gardens Plant Collections Manager Randall Hitchin stars in this new Seattle Times video exploring fall color in the arboretum! Watch the video (please wait through the ad). Then visit the arboretum and immerse yourself in these colors!
Source: seattletimes.nwsource.com
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More than 80 people showed up for the last Union Bay Natural Area restoration work party. Wouldn't you like to be in the middle of that? Students, neighbors and alumni are invited to get in on UBNA's second restoration work party of fall quarter Sat. Nov. 7.
We love building community as we improve our backyard ecosys...tem. Laurelhurst neighbors, students from ESRM 100, the UW student guild of the Society for Ecological Restoration, ESRM 478 and ESRM 362, plus a collection of SFR faculty, alumni and grad students have all pitched in.
If you're in a class with a restoration or environmental volunteer requirement this quarter, this event will fulfill that requirement.
Meet at the kiosk adjacent to Merrill Hall (west side, off Wahkiakum Lane) at 8:45 AM. From 9am to 11am, we'll work on the 2007 ecological restoration plots and the SFR Alumni's Centennial Grove.
Bring a water bottle and work gloves. Dress for the weather.
Questions? Email Nate Hough-Snee at nwhs@u.washington.edu.
Learn more about Union Bay Natural Area at http://depts.washington.edu/urbhort/html
We love building community as we improve our backyard ecosys...tem. Laurelhurst neighbors, students from ESRM 100, the UW student guild of the Society for Ecological Restoration, ESRM 478 and ESRM 362, plus a collection of SFR faculty, alumni and grad students have all pitched in.
If you're in a class with a restoration or environmental volunteer requirement this quarter, this event will fulfill that requirement.
Meet at the kiosk adjacent to Merrill Hall (west side, off Wahkiakum Lane) at 8:45 AM. From 9am to 11am, we'll work on the 2007 ecological restoration plots and the SFR Alumni's Centennial Grove.
Bring a water bottle and work gloves. Dress for the weather.
Questions? Email Nate Hough-Snee at nwhs@u.washington.edu.
Learn more about Union Bay Natural Area at http://depts.washington.edu/urbhort/html
80 people showed up for our last one - woohoo!
Time:9:00AM Saturday, November 7th
Location:Union Bay Natural Area, UW Botanic Gardens
UW Botanic Gardens Freaky fungi, creepy crawlies - October Spooktacular at the Arboretum this Saturday 10/31 gives families with 6 to 12-year-old children just the right amount of Halloween intrigue! Lots of fun, rain or shine. Click on our Events tab for preregistration info.
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Book launch for Val Easton's "The NEW Low-Maintenance Garden: How to Have a Beautiful, Productive Garden and the Time to Enjoy It" includes plant raffle, dessert buffet, a talk with slides, book sales & author signing Nov. 16 at the Center for Urban Horticulture. Fun! Info: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=16
