Grow with Us: Volunteer Opportunities Now Open for 2026 Season!
BY ALICIA HAMILTON We’re happy to share that volunteer recruitment at the Arboretum Foundation is open for the 2026 season. Over the past few weeks,...
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Windsor Community GIVE Day at the Arboretum
BY ALICIA HAMILTON This week, close to 80 volunteers from Windsor Communities spent their annual GIVE Day at the Arboretum, putting their energy...
Arboretum Earth Day Event Promotes “Powerful Pollinators”
We had a great turn out for our Earth Day at the Arboretum event on Saturday, April 19. More than 100 volunteers worked with the hort crew on six...
Earth Day Volunteers Helped Restore the Arboretum
The Earth Day volunteers and their weed pile at the Broadmoor fence project. More than 180 volunteers worked with Arboretum garden staff at our...
REI Hosts Huge Work-Service Event at the Arboretum
Volunteers in the wetlands beside South Azalea Way. More than 100 volunteers from REI helped care for the Arboretum on Thursday, July 21 during one...
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Volunteers Help Host First Seattle Botanic Gardens’ Plant Sale
Volunteers helping shoppers at check-out in the Big Greenhouse. (Photo by Polly Teeter)BY ALICIA HAMILTON Our annual Fall Plant Sale took place at the Graham Visitors Center in the Arboretum last Saturday, September 19. Though it happened on a single day, the sale was...
Helping the Recovery of North America’s Rarest Fir
Arborists Lincoln and Shea after collecting the Santa Lucia fir cones. (Photo: Joanna Long)Seattle Botanic Gardens arborists Shea Cope and Lincoln Erbeck are quite the dynamic duo. They spend much of their time ensuring that the thousands of trees growing in the...
Growing Connections: Celebrating the Volunteers of Seattle Botanic Gardens
Volunteers and staff mingling at the 2026 Volunteer Appreciation Party.BY ALICIA HAMILTON On Monday, August 31, volunteers from across Seattle Botanic Gardens came together at the Center for Urban Horticulture (CUH) for our 2026 Volunteer Appreciation Party—a...
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Symbiotic Marvels: Get to Know the Small but Mighty Lichens of the Arboretum
Figure 1: Lichens on the Ceanothus in the Graham Visitors Center parking lot, including Ramalina farinacea, Usnea species (fruticose), Evernia prunastri and Physcia tenella (foliose).TEXT BY KATHERINE GLEW | Photos by Richard Droker Hidden beneath the leaves and...
Conservation Corner: Large-Winged Wingnut
The winged fruits of Pterocarya macroptera maturing in summer. (Photo by Niall Dunne)BY CHRISTINA PFEIFFER Quietly tucked away in the Arboretum’s old field nursery, on the south side of Crabapple Meadow, a stately specimen of Pterocarya macroptera holds court amid a...
Fabulous Fabiana
Fabiana imbricata f. violacea blooming in the Arboretum in summer. (Photo by Cynthia Welte)BY CYNTHIA WELTE As a horticulturist, I have been studying plants for a long time—especially how to grow and care for them. And, although I’m not a botanist or taxonomist, I’m...
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