Winter Sleep and More
Perhaps it was the recent attention to daylight savings time, along with the shortening days and increasingly bare tree limbs, that got me thinking about winter sleep. Bears are known masters of...
View ArticleTrusting New Beginnings
And suddenly you know It’s time to start Something new. And trust the magic of beginnings. ~ Meister Eckhart Ekchart’s lovely and reassuring message came printed on a card I received last year. The...
View ArticleMeet Our Heritage Trees
In Spring I feel the nervous, itchy excitement of buds aching to open. David Ferguson, (The Guardian, April 24, 2016) We love that feeling Ferguson references because it contains a promise of...
View ArticleFrom February Snow to Pruning
By Beth Weir I started thinking about pruning during our current big Seattle snow after a large branch from a neighbor’s tree collapsed under the weight of the white stuff. It is, of course, nature’s...
View ArticleIn Bed with a Mosquito
By Beth Weir The odd sunny days of 2019 have beckoned those of us who like to garden, outside. Besides the pleasure of being in the yard, such a ritual also typically reminds us that we haven’t been...
View ArticleThe Ways of Trees
by Beth Weir “All our wisdom is stored in the trees.” ― Santosh Kalwar. Trees are front and center this year at the Dunn Gardens. Actually, it would be hard to claim the truth of that for...
View ArticleThe Queen of Months by Beth Weir
If I had to pick a favorite month as a gardener, it would be May. It is the time of year when our world in the Pacific Northwest is bursting with buds; fat, round, enthusiastic flowers in waiting....
View ArticleA Privileged Retirement
by Beth Weir I had the best job in the world as executive director of Dunn Gardens. For someone who likes to get nails dirty, working in a garden as glorious as that one, is like offering a foodie...
View ArticleChanging of the Seasons
by Beth Weir Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness― John Keats It’s hard to be in denial. As much as I wish it were not so the hydrangea blooms are taking on the faded look that signals they are...
View ArticleImagination Makes Us All Bigger
Written by Beth Weir Having just returned from visiting Slovenia and Croatia I am still in the afterglow of the trip. For New World travelers such as myself, the marvel of the European experience is to...
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