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Greenwalks

http://greenwalks.wordpress.com

Greenwalks is a blog about parking strip gardens. It offers photos of some of the many options for replacing tired grass and boring groundcover, links to gardening info, and might even inspire you to get out your shovel.

• Added on: Aug 21st, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: greenwalker
• Listed in: Gardening
• Tags: Seattle gardening gardens planting urban gardening parking strip

Recent Posts

• PlanTV

  Posted on Saturday December 19th, 2009 at 17:24 in movies, disney, friday night lights, aloe, tropical plants, digressions

  This post on nestmaker made me start looking more closely at plant images in feature films and TV that we watch. Hope I am not breaking too many copyright laws here, and sorry for the poor-quality images. Disney’s “Jungle Book” is ...

• New But Not Necessarily Improved

  Posted on Saturday December 12th, 2009 at 23:28 in jazz, apples, hybrids, edibles, digressions

  Since my family is a little bit apple-crazy, I figure I have to try just about any named apple variety I can lay my hands on. Farmers markets and orchard stands are of course the best places to find unusual varieties, but every once in a while someth...

• Winter’s Late Arrival

  Posted on Thursday December 10th, 2009 at 14:52 in garden, Seattle, winter, gardening, ice, my garden, fog, mist

  Seattle’s fall was warm and wet, with way more rain in the month of November than is normal. I am trying to wrap my head around winter now that it is here for real, and although I should have known it was coming, I didn’t really get the g...

• Duck at Dusk

  Posted on Tuesday December 8th, 2009 at 19:43 in Seattle, birds, duck, carp, pond, dusk, mallard, volunteer park, public gardens

  If you look closely, you can see a glint of orange near the bottom center of the picture. There were some really impressive carp in this pond, near the Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park. They seemed to get along fine with the mallards, who ...

• There’s Something About Street Trees

  Posted on Sunday December 6th, 2009 at 23:24 in Seattle, trees, Autumn, leaves, fall, parking strip, planting strip, neighborhood gardens, hell strip

  I seem to be on a tree kick here so maybe I will just keep it going… Garden Rant had an invitation to discuss thoughts on street tree policy here. Lots of comments! People feel strongly about their streets and trees, go figure. Local Ecologist ...

• Nutty

  Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 00:33 in Seattle, squirrels, trees, fauna, nuts, fall, witch hazel, hamamelis x intermedia 'jelena'

  After our witch hazel (Hamamelis X intermedia ‘Jelena’)’s leaves do their spectacular fall color thing and then turn to a crispy brown carpet for the winter, there’s not much to look at until the tree puts out its fragrant red...

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