We Need Trees!
Here’s how to pick the right one to enhance your landscape (and our planet)
Life is better with trees.
For nearly 150 years, April has been the month when people celebrate trees and the many benefits they provide, like casting cool shade and producing canopies of blossoms—and let’s not forget, fruit!
From a design perspective, trees in the landscape fill the space above our gardens, adding a durable element that adds structure, height and longevity to what might otherwise be a fairly flat composition.
Towering above our heads, tree limbs provide shelter for our homes and the wildlife that lives alongside us, a bridge between the domestic and the untethered, like the other day when I looked up from tending my garden to watch an eagle soaring above its nest in the neighboring greenbelt.
Seattle is graced with a venerable urban canopy. Trees define the character of our neighborhoods. From leaning stands of native Pacific Madrone that line the bluff in Magnolia, to numerous big leaf maples over Capitol Hill, and remnant forests of conifers found in parks all over our city.
But trees offer much more than beauty, blossoms and habitat.
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