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Street Life: Choosing & Planting Street Trees

Street Life: Choosing & Planting Street Trees

The benefits of street trees are well documented. But how do you know what choose? Guest author Greg Butler gives you all the information you need to know before planting, plus his favorite small, medium, and large street trees for Seattle! 

Chive Talkin’

Chive Talkin’

Chives are the first of the herbs to open their sleepy eyes in the spring and a harbinger that better weather is on the way. The joy of being able to add freshly snipped chives to scrambled eggs on an early March morning assures one that winter is finally in the rearview mirror, and that, as immortalized by the soaring falsetto of last surviving Gibb brother,  “You Should Be Dancing!”

Plants On The Move, with Greg Butler

Plants On The Move, with Greg Butler

From time to time even the best gardeners discover that they have planted something in the wrong place: too close together, too close to the house, too much sun or shade, and so on. Well, it's never happened to me, of course, but I've heard stories...fortunately most of these errors can be corrected with some planning, the right tools, and varying amounts of sweat equity.