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Rhody Garden Fall Foliage Festival- Oct. 28-29

Rhody Garden Fall Foliage Festival- Oct. 28-29

Enjoy guided tours, pop-up plant vendors, food trucks, a costume contest, and kids activities. Come see one of the finest displays of fall foliage color on the west coast. The large collection of Japanese maples, deciduous azaleas and other deciduous species never fails to produce a huge range of bright colors right before heading into…

Orcas Island Artist Gives New Life to Fallen Trees

Orcas Island Artist Gives New Life to Fallen Trees

With Laura Yeats' touch, madrona trees become beautiful vessels

  ORCAS ISLAND ARTIST LAURA YEATS has developed a unique relationship with a particular species of the island’s ubiquitous flora: the madrona tree. She uses the madrona’s gnarled, spout-like knots—which form as the tree self-prunes and heals itself—to create her imaginative bud vessels. “They started out as solid, sculptural pieces,” Yeats says, “but Nisha Klein…

Seattle Homeowner: Can You Cut Down that Tree?

Seattle Homeowner: Can You Cut Down that Tree?

The City of Seattle is considering new rules that would remove protections on some ‘exceptional tre

It wasn’t a native tree. It wasn’t what most would call pretty. And it was so big it dwarfed the little cottage it had grown beside for the past 60 or more years. But the spiky, Seussian monkey puzzle tree that was cut down last January in Ballard by the home’s new owners had been…

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