My Green Lake reader Caroline Sherman wrote to give us a heads-up on a very cool website: Flash Volunteer. Flash Volunteer is a “web-based engagement portal” for volunteer service in Seattle. You can use it to search for volunteer opportunities in the neighborhood or to create your own volunteer events to promote to your neighbors. While there are no current volunteer opportunities listed for Green Lake, “I thought it might be useful for folks in Green Lake to know about it,” says Caroline. “The more folks know about it, the more opportunities might emerge through it.” Previous Green Lake volunteer…
August 2010
August 16, 2010 at 10:25AM
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Use FlashVolunteer.org to search for and list Green Lake volunteer events
August 14, 2010 at 5:22PM
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Seattle Fire Department makes a splash at the Green Lake wading pool
Many thanks to Jonathan Axell for sharing this awesome video and photograph with us, shot this afternoon at the Green Lake wading pool:
August 13, 2010 at 2:29PM
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Green Lake's Streetwise Gardener: Container Wars
Planting a container is a lot like forming a carpool, dogwalking team, or a playgroup. To keep skirmishes to a minimum, you have to strike a balance between the introverts and extroverts, leaders and followers. Take my porch containers, for example. For the most part I juggled the same core players in various combinations, whose chemistry elicited strikingly different performances. (Same potting soil, BTW, in case you were thinking of asking.) Drought-tolerant verbena happily holds its own here with purple Calibrachoa (Million-bells) and yellow Osteopermum. However, it’s definitely losing the battle here with torenia, coleus and perennial geranium ‘Victor Reiter’. …
