QueenAnne News 11-8-2023

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HALLOWEEN ON THE AVENUE

The Power of Editing in the Garden

They say gardens are never finished –the truth of that saying was brought home to me recently as I had to make some hard choices.

Queen Anne knows how to do Halloween right. The Avenue was crowded with adorable trick-or-treaters and lots of businesses owners handing out treats for young and old alike. There were water bottles from the orthodontist, Pokémon cards from Blue Highway Games, dog treats from Wag, and probably more candy than the kids could eat. Some of the local elected officials were seen trick-or-treating with their children while a few hopeful candidates passed out candy and campaign information. The Avenue’s festivities culminated with the Thriller flashmob in front of Trader Joe’s before families dispersed into the neighborhood in search of more tricks and treats throughout the night. Neighbors that made it all the way to 10th Avenue West got to see the elaborate Stranger Things display, where the home owners passed out candy to more than 1,000 children this year.

When we bought our house, it was nearly a blank slate – bliss for an enthusiastic plant collector. I was overjoyed to see the southfacing hillside by the front door, but it was covered in lawn. First, I prefer more useful plants than lawn, but second, what a pain to mow that must be! Enter the magic of Craigslist, and the people who wanted to divest themselves of plants they had become too successful in their gardens. I was given all the plants who believed in Manifest Destiny – Crocosmia ‘Lucifer,’ Daylilies, and lambs’ ears (Stachys byzantina), to name a few.

Then I hit the plant sales, and promptly installed all the plants I’d been wanting to try, without considering their ultimate size. Soon the hill was bursting with plants.

Fast forward (well it feels like that anyway) twelve years and it was time for a change. My husband was about to trim the ‘Lady Banks’ Rose – a twice-yearly occurrence to keep it from reaching our roof, when it came to us that mayyyybe we didn’t have to do this anymore. From the driveway, it looked like our arbor had grown a Bob Ross afro. It’s a lovely sight in May smothered in yellow blossoms, but did we really want to keep this up? We really didn’t. It sounds crazy, but I began to feel irresponsible for planting large things that I wasn’t ready to prune.

If you have planted something in the wrong place, there will be a moment of reckoning in which either you or the plant will be unhappy. The plant may need constant pruning, causing irregular growth, or it may have weak branches from being in too much

Queen Anne & Magnolia Worship Services

Sunday Worship at 10am Live Streamed on our Facebook page and YouTube. Simply look for Magnolia Lutheran Church.

Twelfth Church of Christ, Scientist

In Person and Online Church Services

All are welcome & warmly invited to join these healing services

For best audio results, please join by clicking on the link from your computer or smartphone and choose “Call Over Internet”

All Zoom Services Meeting ID: 418 806 2637 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4188062637

Sunday Services 11:00am – 12noon Pacific

Wednesday Testimonies 7:30pm – 8:30pm Pacific

Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lessons

Our weekly Bible Lesson Sermon may be found here: https://quarterly.christianscience.com/

Additional Healing Resources: ChristianScience.com CSWashington.com SeattleMetroReadingRoom.org

For additional assistance, please contact us at seattle12cs@gmail.com or 206.283.2300 ChristianScienceTwelfthSeattle.com

For a Healthier You CHIROPRACTORS

DENTISTS

Queen Anne Dental Group

Dr. Frank J. Calvo & Family

Cosmetic, Implant, & General Dentistry

400 Boston St. 206-284-7812 www.QADG.net

BRIEFS

QUEEN ANNE HELPLINE

Every year, Queen Anne Helpline offers a bag of Thanksgiving groceries, including turkey, pumpkin, pie, stuffing, and more, to low-income seniors in our service area.

If you are a low-income senior (55+) living in zip-codes 98109, 98119, or 98199 and would like to have one of our Thanksgiving bags delivered to you, call our Resource Center at 206-282-1540.

To donate or to help volunteer, go to https://www.queenannehelpline.org/ thanksgiving.html

POOL CLOSURE

The pool closure is scheduled for Nov. 17 through Dec. 4. This one is a scheduled preventative maintenance closure. While the pool was closed this summer due to staff constraints with the lifeguard staff capacity, the parks team was unable to get the work done at this time as it is also peak season for facilities maintenance.

Chiropractic AND Massage Therapy

Darrell Gibson, D.C. • Sarah Gibson, D.C. Graeme Gibson, D.C.

David E. Goodall III, LMT

Sarah Rose Nottingham, LMT Lauren E. Traynor, LMT

SERVING THE FAMILIES OF QUEEN ANN E SINCE 1991 1905 Queen Anne Ave N • 206.282.8275 www.QueenAnneChiro.com

Small Business Saturday: Making a positive impact on your community

After you’ve had your fill of Thanksgiving leftovers and chaotic Black Friday crowds, you may be looking for a way to change up the menu and enjoy more leisurely and memorable experiences. Small Business Saturday on November 25 is exactly what’s needed as the bustling holiday season kicks off.

Shopping and dining at small establishments not only provides customers with unique and personalized experiences but comes with the added bonus of making a positive impact on your community. For example:

• Small businesses support your favorite causes. Children’s events, service clubs, charity auctions, community cleanups, senior centers. Small businesses frequently provide the funds, goods, services and volunteers our communities rely on. According to the Association of Fundraising Professionals, on average, the median annual gift for entrepreneurs Is $3,600, which is 50% higher than nonentrepreneurs ($2,400). In addition, 66% of entrepreneurs volunteer two or more hours a month, compared with just more than half (55%) of non-

entrepreneurs.

• Small businesses employ nearly half of all workers in the United States.

In Washington, 49.8% of employees support their families with paychecks and benefits provided by the state’s 657,000 small businesses.

• Your purchase dollars stay local. What is spent at small businesses supports other local establishments as well as the local tax base. Tim Mitchell in Northwest Earth Institute's Choices for Sustainable Living states, “A dollar spent at a locally owned store is usually spent six to 15 times before it leaves the community. From $1, you create $5 to $14 in value within that community.

• Small businesses are the heart and soul of communities.

Small business owners are committed to seeing not only their businesses, employees and customers thrive, they are also committed to helping our communities thrive.

If you see the value small

businesses add to local communities, you’re not alone. In fact, the overwhelming majority of Americans agree with you. A recent Bentley University and Gallup poll asked respondents about their opinion of small businesses and a whopping 85% of Americans said that small businesses have a somewhat or extremely positive impact on people’s lives.

Small businesses have such a significant impact on communities and our economy that the U.S. Senate passed a resolution in 2011 designated the Saturday after Thanksgiving as Small Business Saturday. Since 2015, the U.S. Small Business Administration has been a co-sponsor of this initiative, which American Express launched in 2010. Thanks to community members rallying around their friends and neighbors, more than $19.8 billion was spent at local establishments during last

year’s Small Business Saturday. Participating is easy. Simply shop at local stores, dine in neighborhood restaurants or treat the kids to a family-friendly activity. Spread the word by sharing your experiences on social media, encouraging others to support community-oriented businesses and using the hashtag #smallbizsaturday.

To learn more about Small Business Saturday, please visit http://www.sba.gov/saturday.

By participating in Small

Business Saturday on November 25, you’ll enjoy connecting with others in community while making a positive impact on businesses . . . just as those businesses make a positive impact on your community.

For more information on how the SBA can assist your small business start, grow or expand, please visit www.sba. gov.

Aikta Marcoulier oversees the SBA’s programs and services as the agency’s Acting

Native Plant Sale Store launches Nov. 15

Submitted Special to the Dispatch

King Conservation District is launching its Native Plant Sale online store Wednesday, Nov. 15. The sale has 48 varieties of native trees, shrubs, and groundcovers for conservation purposes such as wildlife habitat, windbreaks, hedgerows, reforestation, stream enhancement, pollinator support and natural landscaping.

Each year, the sale distributes close to 70,000 native plants to customers across King County.

Plants offered are either bareroot stock or plugs. Bareroot plants are grown in a field until they are approximately 12-18’’ tall. Once the plants are dormant, they are removed straight from the ground, so they do not come in pots. Plugs being offered are young plants, having been propagated and grown for 1 year and will typically have 3-8” of growth.

“The truth is,” says KCD’s

Riparian Field Operations Specialist, Marinn Carpenter, “while they’re new to some people, bareroot plants are affordable, hardy, have well-developed roots and are easy to handle, transport and plant.”

For those new to native plants, the online store has a number of helpful materials to guide customers through the benefits of native plants, choosing plants that fit their needs, and handling and planting care.

KCD will take preorders through its online store between Nov. 15 and Feb. 5, or until inventory runs out. Customers pick up their orders at designated times on March 2 and 3, at the Tukwila Community Center. Customers are advised to order early for the best availability as quantities are limited and many species sell out.

Learn more about native plants and participate in the sale by visiting kingcd.org/plantsale.

Raleigh Olmsted October 3, 1946 – October 18, 2023

Raleigh Olmsted, age 77, passed away on Wednesday, October 18, 2023. Raleigh was one of a kind and lived his life with zest. He was a family man, barber, Harley Davidson motorcycle enthusiast, antique truck rebuilder, marathon runner and great guy. He cared about people and loved to help friends, neighbors and family. He was born in Nebraska on October 3, 1946, the sixth of seven children. His career as a barber spanned 50 years in Seattle, mostly in Magnolia and at Fisherman’s Terminal Barber Shop since 2015. He was a loving father, grandfather and partner. He is survived by daughter Jessica Olmsted, grandson Anthony Schlegel, partner Barbara Snyder, former spouse Carol June and sisters Wanda Collins, Bonnie Byrd and Violet Turner. He will be missed by many. A celebration of Raleigh’s life is planned for Sunday, November 19 from 4-7 pm at Shoreline Unitarian Church, 14724 1st Ave NE, Shoreline.

GRIVAS from Page 1Æ

shade. It may be growing lustily, but smothering other plants you like. Hence the oft-repeated saying “Right plant, right place”. Also, if I’ve planted something in the wrong place, it’s up to me to either take proper care of it including finding the right place for it. That may be at someone else’s house. In which case it’s time to say thank you and goodbye.

As I write this, a few lanky houseplants are coming to mind…. Faster than I can believe, I gave the OK, and my husband literally tied a 600-lb. rope around it and pulled it off the arbor with the car. (The 300-lb rope snapped within seconds.) This is not a professional technique. We are lucky the whole arbor didn’t come down. While I’ll miss the plant, and am sorry to lose it, it’s a pretty epic video.

Normally this would have been a tougher decision, but I could see the future of this plant. I bought a cutting in a 4” pot bought at the University of Washington arboretum, an impulse purchase fueled possibly from the Wayside Gardens catalog. I Googled it upon returning home from the Arb, and learned according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the world’s largest rose, in Tombstone, Arizona, covering 9,000 square feet, is a ‘Lady Banks’ rose. It’s very possible it may come back from the trunk, which is now about six inches wide. The one in Arizona is at least 12 feet across. I knew what I was doing and planted it anyway – and here we are.

This event started a cascade of changes. I’d noticed, but managed to ignore, that the Phlomis russeliana (Jerusalem sage) was swallowing the black elderberry (Sambucus nigra), while the philadelphus aggressively loomed over passersby on the sidewalk.

Today social media allows we plant nerds to enable each other with ease.

I posted in a Facebook group

called PNW Plant Geeks, and soon had several interested parties. One, a professional gardener - and new homeowner - came by and filled his pickup truck with a Baptisia (he was very gracious about the brick-like taproot that broke one of his shovels), the Philadelphus, a Cestrum, and a Deodar cedar (Cedrus deodara). Most were over six feet tall.

As I gave him a tour, I began offering choisyas and callicarpa, pennisetum and salvias – but as I’ve said, his truck was full.

I am posting others on Plant Amnesty’s web site (plantamnesty. org.) Plant Amnesty is a nonprofit that educates about proper care and pruning of plants so that you don’t get in this situation. If you do anyway, it’s free to list and donate, but the info you post is only accessible to its paid members. When you are planting an area, always believe the mature size specs – you can’t go wrpong It feels like the landscape is breathing a little easier with added space and room to grow. I’ll try not to fill it all in.

But my beautiful neighbor, whose ‘Lady Banks’ is neatly sheared to flat green panes, just surprised me by dropping off four Geum seedlings that would fit very nicely where the Cedar was. What’s a gardener to do?