Time out for beauty at the botanic gardens: Photo Friday at UW News

Check out these beautiful photos of spring in the UW Botanic Gardens, taken by UW alum Art Wolfe. Man it’s good to be a dawg!

With gardens like these, who needs a SAD lamp? – Crosscut

Crosscut profiles the Witt Winter Garden in the Washington Park Arboretum and Coenosium Rock Garden at the South Seattle Community College Arboretum, both great mid-winter garden destinations.  Read more here.

If a tree falls in the forest… UWBG hears – UW News

A couple of giant oaks in the Washington Park Arboretum fell over in the January “snowmageddon”. Read here to learn how University of Washington Botanic Garden employees and volunteers worked to save them! Chris Watson and David Zuckerman are quoted.

UW Botantic Garden sow seeds for the future – Seattle Times

With state budgets tightening, the UW Botanic Gardens have lost 25% of their funding over the past few years. Volunteers are needed and appreciated. Sara Reichard is quoted in this article about this wonderful community resource.