There has been a lot of activity in the Union Bay Natural Area. Work is continuing on the first phase of a 1,200 foot boardwalk trail in Yesler Swamp, the six-acre site on the shore of Union Bay. There is a splendid article on the project in UW Today. The Seattle Times also had a nice piece on the ongoing restoration. Both articles feature extensive commentary from our own professor of plant ecology (as well as co-director of the UW’s Restoration Ecology Network), Kern Ewing.

Join us this Saturday for the last Story Program before the summer break. We will travel back in time. First, a visit to 1935, where young gardener Lydia Grace Finch has a plan to make her world a little more beautiful. Then we'll set the dial for about 1915, and travel to France to meet Claude Monet in his garden. In our last book, we travel to back to the first decade of the last century to meet Mossy the turtle and her friend Scoot. READ MORE.

Everyone in our plant community should enjoy the new blog from our friends at the UW Medicinal Herb Garden. The Herb Garden has been on campus since 1911 and is home to a large variety of healing plants from around the world. Visit the blog.

(By John A. Wott, Director Emeritus) This photo of the Montlake Section in the Washington Park Arboretum was taken September 10, 1953. The label states that you are “looking NE down the site of the canal fill, with the Museum of History and Industry in the background." It is suspected that the small trees on the right are Japanese Cherry trees, READ MORE.

The beginning of June boasts boisterous and abundant blooms and this native shrub is no exception. Starting in late May, an otherwise nondescript shrub begins to draw attention as masses of single white flowers suddenly begin to pop open creating a blizzard of deliciously scented clusters that cover a straggly shrub from top to bottom. READ MORE.