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- In My Nature book launch recep...
Elisabeth C. Miller Library
Today, November 30 at 6:30pm - Gifts & Greens Galore
Graham Visitors Center, Washington ...
Friday, December 4 at 2:00pm - Volunteer opp: Plant propagati...
Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle
Monday, December 7 at 1:00pm - Explore animal homes during St...
3501 NE 41st Street, Seattle, WA 98195
Saturday, December 19 at 10:00am
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UW Botanic Gardens Monday night - Come hear a knowledgeable local birder who's been visiting Montlake Fill almost daily for 20 years, and celebrate her new book!
Free reception for Connie Sidles' new book
Location:Elisabeth C. Miller Library
Time:6:30PM Monday, November 30th
UW Botanic Gardens
What do animals need in your garden? How do birds camouflage themselves? Where do insects like to live? This month's Young Gardeners' Story Time at the Elisabeth C. Miller Library features 3 books:
IN MY BACKYARD by Margriet Ruurs
HOW TO HIDE A WHIP-POOR-WILL by Ruth Heller
LADYBUG, LADYBUG, WHERE ARE YOU? by Cyndi Sze...keres
Story Time at the Miller Library is a free monthly public 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, December 19th
Location:3501 NE 41st Street, Seattle, WA 98195
UW Botanic Gardens Know anyone who'd like to gain native plant propagation & youth mentoring experience while working outdoors in the Arboretum? This volunteer opp starts the week of December 7.
Location:Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle
Time:1:00PM Monday, December 7th
Kristin Gabrielson
Thanks to those of you who helped me find the Facebook page. I'm a
serious arboretum walker and always have questions and comments about
plants -- especially at this time of year as the Winter Garden starts
to rev up.
For instance, there is a plant that looks like a variegated ilex right
at the southwest end/entrance to ...the Winter Garden. It is just
beginning to bloom with its very fragrant small white flowers, and I've never found a tag on it. Any ideas what it is? It is starting to
smother another of my favorites right underneath it, a small shrub, a recent addition
to the Winter Garden, one that is bare of leaves at this time of year.
I worry about its survival! And the hellebores all around it aren't
helping!
UW Botanic Gardens Prune a tree or two this weekend & drop off your donations of fresh-cut greens next week at Washington Park Arboretum for the upcoming Gifts & Greens Galore event.
www.arboretumfoundation.org
UW Botanic Gardens We're grateful to all of our volunteers, donors & visitors who enjoy & value UWBG gardens, programs & natural areas. Thank you for getting out there & appreciating, experiencing, doing!
UW Botanic Gardens Interesting archival photos are on exhibit in the Miller Library now through December 31: "Looking Back: A History of the Washington Park Arboretum."
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UW Botanic Gardens The season's last purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) in the Soest Garden. The season's last sunshine, too?
UW Botanic Gardens
WINTER CREW MENTOR
Are you interested in working outside with underserved youth? Are you passionate about issues of homelessness and environmental justice? Do you have an interest in native plants? Read on!
The Program
The University of Washington Botanic Gardens' Native Plant Propagation Program (NPPP) partners with... Seattle Youth Garden Works (SYGW) during the winter months to propagate native plants, restore native habitat in the Arboretum and engage young people in horticulture and restoration ecology. Youth enrolled in SYGW (http://www.sygw.org) learn environmental stewardship, the impact of invasive plants, the importance of increasing numbers of native trees and plants in the Arboretum and the value the Arboretum brings to our community. In addition, youth learn job skills and appropriate work place behavior.
Volunteer Role
Volunteers aged 21 and up work alongside the youth crew to model good work skills and build positive relationships with the youth. Winter Crew Mentors must undergo SYGW’s screening process.
Specific Duties
• Perform propagation tasks alongside youth crew.
• Listen to youth and engage with them.
• Allow youth to lead whenever possible.
• Model good work skills by arriving on time ready to work, calling ahead if late or absent, displaying a good attitude, following directions and communicating well with supervisors.
• Help create a work environment accepting of all people.
Time Commitment and Location
1:00 pm-5:00 pm one day/week (Tuesday, Thursday or Friday) at Washington Park Arboretum. Program starts the week of December 7, 2009 and runs through February 18, 2010 with a two week break over the holidays.
Skills and Qualities
• Willingness to work outside, rain or shine
• Experience working with or desire to work with youth
• Experience with native plants preferable but not required
• Personable, mature and emotionally stable
• Good communication skills
• Committed to non-violent conflict resolution
Benefits
• Continuing education and training opportunities
• Increased knowledge of native plant propagation
• Meaningful relationships and partnerships with youth
Training
Winter Crew Mentors are asked to attend a Homelessness 101 training and orientation session sponsored by the University District Service Providers Alliance (UDSPA).
Interested?
If you are interested in this volunteer position, contact Jeffrey Mathias, Volunteer & Outreach Coordinator, at jmathias@thechurchcouncil.org or 206-632-0352 x 15.
Time:1:00PM Monday, December 7th
Location:Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle
UW Botanic Gardens Soest Gardener Riz Reyes is updating the CUH Grounds inventory and awaits your questions as to what's what and where a particular plant might be.
UW Botanic Gardens Washington Rare Plant Care & Conservation (a program within UW Botanic Gardens) collected rare alpine seed in national parks this season. Want to know more? This link takes you to a pdf of Rare Care's semi-annual newsletter.
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UW Botanic Gardens Still some buzzing going on in the Soest Garden around the long-blooming fleece flower, Persicaria amplexicaulis 'Taurus.'
UW Botanic Gardens Thanks to all who attended last night's book launch party with Val Easton. We had a fun time! If you missed it, you can catch Val Easton at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park tomorrow evening 11/18 at 7pm.
