{"id":6374,"date":"2021-08-30T16:16:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T23:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/?post_type=book&p=6374"},"modified":"2023-07-06T13:11:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T20:11:53","slug":"legacy-of-trees-purposeful-wandering-in-vancouvers-stanley-park","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/legacy-of-trees-purposeful-wandering-in-vancouvers-stanley-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Legacy of Trees: Purposeful Wandering in Vancouver’s Stanley Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u201cLegacy of Trees: Purposeful Wandering in Vancouver\u2019s Stanley Park\u201d has an unusual way of telling the story of a public park.\u00a0 The intent of author Nina Shoroplova in writing the book was to allow herself the \u201cpurposeful wandering\u201d of the sub-title.\u00a0 She skillfully brings the reader along on this journey, using individual trees as markers and the focus in telling the natural and human history of this peninsula and the adjacent, densely populated city.<\/p>\n

This makes for an engaging book to read, but a hard one to describe.\u00a0 While it is helpful if you are planning to explore the park, I recommend it more for reading as a narrative before going.\u00a0 I gained much understanding and appreciation for the indigenous and many immigrant nationalities that make up the city of today, as well as the importance of trees in all cultures.<\/p>\n

Shoroplova gives much of the credit for the early history she recounts to Major James Skitt Matthews (1878-1970), who established the city archives and like herself was from Wales.\u00a0 She describes him as an \u201cirascible Welshman who insisted on single-handedly seeking out and detailing the early stories of Vancouver.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more recent history, the author consulted with living experts, including interviewing Alleyne Cook, shortly before he died in his 90s.\u00a0 Cook designed and established the very popular Ted and Mary Grieg Rhododendron Garden, a 22-year project completed in the 1980s.\u00a0 Shoroplova skillfully weaves the story of bringing rhododendrons from the Grieg\u2019s remote specialty nursery on Vancouver Island and incorporating them, along with complimentary flowering trees, into the existing landscape.<\/p>\n

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Excerpted from the Fall 2021 issue of the Arboretum Bulletin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cLegacy of Trees: Purposeful Wandering in Vancouver\u2019s Stanley Park\u201d has an unusual way of telling the story of a public park.\u00a0 The intent of author Nina Shoroplova in writing the book was to allow herself the \u201cpurposeful wandering\u201d of the sub-title.\u00a0 She skillfully brings the reader along on this journey, using individual trees as markers and the focus in telling the natural and human history of this peninsula and the adjacent, densely populated city. This makes for an engaging book…<\/p>\n

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