Saturday is Philanthropy Day at Urbanweeds

Come help us support four great local charities. On Saturday Sept. 19, 2009 we’ll be offering you the chance to donate 20% of your purchase to one of four charities. This month we are featuring:

BF Day Elementary School   In addition to being a great neighbor BF Day recently built and showcases a [...]

New City Rules: Plant Your Sidewalk Strip!

From the office of the Seattle Mayor:
Mayor Greg Nickels today announced improvements to make gardening in planting strips easier for Seattle’s residents. The new planting strip policy, issued by the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), eliminates any permit requirements for gardens and ends fees previously required for hardscape improvements, such as planter boxes or pavers.
“This [...]

Lorene Edwards Forkner: May 17

Sunday May 17, at 12:00pm — Lorene Edwards Forkner, a local freelance writer and award-winning Pacific Northwest garden designer, will be at Urbanweeds to discuss vegetable garden planning, layout and design. These and other great ideas are all featured in Lorene’s brand new book “Growing Your Own Vegetables”. Lorene will also be mentioning her [...]

Local Festival: Friday May 1

Our friends and neighbors at the Fremont Abbey Arts Center are putting on a local festival this Friday May 1 — looks like the weather will be good, so check out their website and come on over. Urbanweeds will join in the fun by offering Basil starts for just $1. Yes, BASIL FOR [...]

Utility Strips

 
My favorite city-gardening idea isn’t mine; I just appropriated it. Whoever thought of planting up urban sidewalk strips deserves the key to some nice-looking city.
Sidewalk plantings can be formal, an elegant, matched row of low-growing shrubs or heather (or, in a shaded side street, hostas, but keep these small and compact, like H. Second Wind, [...]

New Year, New Look

Happy 2009!  … And welcome to the new Urbanweeds website.  To keep our site more current, we’ve decided to convert it to a blog format.  Let us know what you think by clicking on the “Comments” link below this post.

Chimps Benefit

The weather on Saturday April 12, 2008 was amazing!  The sun was shining, the Dalai Lama was in Seattle, and Urbanweeds was packed!   It was really fun to see the store so busy (and for such a great cause).  I am so pleased that so many folks came to support our first benefit for the Chimpanzee [...]

Our New Outdoors

It’s been a long winter!  This is why we’re so excited to announce that our fence is nearly finished (and should be this weekend).  Yes, this is a somewhat silly thing to blog about but we just can’t wait to hang out with our customers in the sun.  
Last summer was great but we had to [...]

Community Change

We’re excited to announce that we have joined the Puget Sound Community Change program.  Now when you present your Puget Sound Community Card and spend $50 or more at Urbanweeds, 10% of your purchase will return to our community.