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• EXCEPTIONS: Crown Reductions on Trees

• GOOSE—Be Gone!

Plant Activist Update

Move of PlantAmnesty Offices, September

In late September, PlantAmnesty’s offices and storage spaces moved across the street to The Brig, the same building

where our Sunday Master Pruner Classes are held. We will be in this location during the process of earthquake and fire retrofitting of our previous location. We anticipate moving back to our original offices in Building 30 once the retrofit-ting is complete, hopefully in the summer or fall of 2013. Thanks to our staff for handling the details of the move and setting up an attractive and usable work space and functional storage spaces.

Fall Renovation Workshops

We had three, count ‘em, three renovation workshops. One Big, one small, and one taught in Spanish. They

were all great.

Meeting of Like Minds (MOLM), October 16

The guest speakers at October’s MOLM were Jason Henry and Andy Mitton of Berger Partnership. The

Berger Partnership is the landscape architecture firm for the Washington Park Arboretum redesign and landscape design on

EXCEPTIONS TO THE RULESPart 1

Topping and Heading Trees

At the International Society of Arboriculture’s conference in

Portland, I gave a talk on the work that PlantAmnesty has done to end tree topping. At the end of the talk someone asked the question, “Are there any circumstances where you consider crown-reduction pruning okay?” I replied, “Sure. There are even instances when tree topping is okay.” The fellow asked me for examples, and I rattled off a few. I will include them below and in the next issue. But I sensed that he was more interested in my opinion on several hot topics being discussed in the arboricultural field, including at the conference. They include what is called retrenchment pruning for very old trees that are already starting to fall apart and look pretty shabby, topping and spiral pruning of edge or release tree conifers to reduce the chances of blow down, and topping and/or re-topping of defective conifers with targets. To that I would add topping of old apple and pear trees to bring them into production and the retrench-ment pruning of declining live trees for the purpose of creating wildlife habitat. All this will be defined and discussed in the next PlantAmnesty newsletter as part of this epic treatise by me, Cass Turnbull, never known for her conciseness. I have sometimes thought these exceptions to topping and heading would be a good topic for a conference with panel discussion and maybe a survey of and for arborists. Then again it could make matters worse, becoming an example of the law of unintended consequences.

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The Beast

I told my husband of my intent to write an article about when topping or crown reduction is ok. He said, “Don’t do it!”

and I know why. Just talking about it feeds the beast. The beast is the name I give to the almost universal compulsion among the peoples of the world to control nature and their trees. Most often this control is brutal, as in tree topping, but it can also be seen in attempts to help trees such as the perpetual hunt for the magic elixir, elaborate systems of cabling and propping, overstaking, painting and wrap-ping trunks, drilling and filling cavities, wound dressings, and hundreds of other things, some with and some without validity. I cringed inside when a guy at the conference came up to me and said with an earnest and passionate stare, “I save trees.” This is just the kinder side of the same beast. But most importantly, the desire to control trees is responsible for the defining problem facing the tree care industry—the fact that 90% of the work on trees done worldwide is top-ping, which is wrong and bad and shouldn’t be done. I often wonder why the industry doesn’t spend more time, money, and effort fighting the good fight. The result would be more and better work for ethical and knowledgeable arborists. But I think I know the answer—because the problem is so huge and intractable no one wants to take it on, at least not in a big way. Like world hunger, it’s too overwhelming. Better, perhaps, to put it out of your mind and carve out a good life for one’s family and self. But PlantAmnesty launched the campaign to end tree topping in King County as proof that it could be done. We went from a city that had 90% topping to one of less than 10%. There are numerous instances of once common human practices that have been essentially elimi-nated: bloodletting, witch burning, and smoking in public places just to name three. And there is a mad mother out there who is hot on the heels of drunk driving.

But back to the beast. The beast is in our DNA, and the desire to control nature has served us well as a species: the domestication of crops and farm animals, the invention of anti-biotics, and the damming of rivers are just a few. It just hasn’t worked out so well for nature. Gardeners and arborists want to control nature, too. We are just more sensitive to our subjects and work toward a more symbiotic relationship.

When Is Heading a Tree Okay?

First off, the definition of heading, according the ISA’s Best Management Practices Manual, and the ANSI300s Pruning

Standards: The reduction of a shoot, stem or branch back to a bud or to a lateral branch NOT large enough to assume the terminal role. In plain English, heading is when you cut the end off a branch to no place in particular or to a side branch

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which is too small, and so it responds with water sprouts or die-back.

Heading is okay for training young trees, for example to force lateral branches to form low down on an apple or pear tree for easy harvest. And it is okay to head trees used as a formal hedge. Upkeep heading and/or shearing is annual and essential.

In private conversations with people about their Arborvitae pyramidalis growing under the eaves, I’ve said that heading is a reasonable thing to do because these conifers do not rot read-ily, you can’t see the ugly round donut on top, and you won’t get a mess of watersprouts. However, the top will divide and thicken up, eventually becoming unmanageable. Still, heading in this case is a reasonable thing to do for a few years until such time as the plant will have to be removed altogether. Because of the thickening of the top, I do not recommend it for people who just want to even out the top of their Arborvitae hedge, because it causes problems down the line. Unlike the headed and sheared Leyland cypress hedge or beech hedge, the entire raison d’être of an Arborvitae pyrimidalis hedge is to not need shearing and heading all over every year. I guess this could be considered a grey area in the scheme of pruning ethics.

A person also needs to head a young tree to develop a pollard. In future years the watersprouts are annually cut off to the pollard head. The ANSI 300 Pruning Standards has a loop-hole big enough to drive a truck and chipper through in this regard. It neglects to specify the size of the training cuts (no cut on a pollarded tree will ever exceed 2” in diameter). According to the way the ANSI 300 is currently written, a person could top a mature tree, with the intent to cut off the watersprouts every year and correctly call it pollarding. It is not.

One also heads the branches of espaliered apples and pears. Kinda goes without saying.

Another instance involves the correction of a weak trunk caused by poor nursery practices. Let me explain. Overstaking and crown raising of nursery stock can create trees that, when planted and unstaked, flop over to the ground. What a joke. Professor Richard Harris, in his standard text book Arboriculture: Integrated Management of Landscape Trees, Shrubs and Vines, explored the problem. Tree owners were often compelled to stake and restake the trees higher and higher up as they increased in height. Since those trunks were grown dependent on their ties, they never developed the requisite taper and strength to stand on their own. His final suggestion was to cut the young tree to the ground and let it send up a new, self-made trunk. The tree owner would need to be careful not to get suckers from the rootstock of a grafted tree or allow a multiple-trunked tree to develop (as they can fall apart years later when they can do damage). In a private conversation with a lady who had a floppy magnolia tree, I

recommended she try this system, though I made her promise not to quote me! Young trees (trees under 15 years old) are all dynamic wood. They can easily compartmentalize after a heading cut, and even topping, and outgrow the damage.

In order to prevent a floppy trunk, one needs to leave the lower limbs on the tree until such time 2/3rds of crown are over foot or vehicular traffic. The lower limbs feed the lower trunk of the tree, making it strong and giving it good taper. This can be a problem when said lower branches—called temporary branches—interfere with foot or vehicular traffic. In this case, heading back the branches is ok. They can be retained for a few more years, at which time they are removed to the trunk entirely.

On the other hand, heading your little trees such as purple leaf plum, your hawthorn, or your crabapple into a cute umbrella or ball is wrong, IMO. Apparently this kind of pruning is considered a grey area in the minds of many horticulturalists, but it serves no purpose other than to feed the beast. The plum will graciously die from it in the not-too-distant future. The crabapple, being a champion com-partmentalizer, will go on to annoy the likes of me, forever, or until such time as the pruner gives up out of exhaustion.

When is topping a tree okay?A topping cut is a large internodal cut on tree that causes

rot to develop in the trunk. The epicormic shoots (water-sprouts) that are formed to replace the crown are likely to be weakly attached even many years later when they have turned into large, heavy branches.

I can think of two cases right off the bat when topping is a rational response to a tree situation. Birch trees often bend over with snow loads and refuse to straighten back up. If there is no

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potential target (like a person or something valuable such as a house) for the regrown top(s), topping the stem and allowing a new leader to grow makes sense. This can happen naturally or when assisted by heading, reducing, or removing the competing new leaders.

I know of another instance that occurred when a large coni-fer got tipped in a severe storm. The arborist worked to wench it back into the ground, at the owners behest, but could not. He eventually decided to top it to reduce the leverage. Since there was no target for future, potentially less well-attached top(s), and since this tree compartmentalizes well (i.e., does not rot), this was a good decision and it worked.

And then there are those fruit trees again. I’ve spent a life-time trying to convince people not to top their fruit trees. Such treatment does not increase the amount of fruit down low–there just won’t be that wasted fruit up high where it can’t be reached. Instead, PlantAmnesty classes demonstrate restoration pruning for the victims of previous top jobs. Those trees were an incred-ible mess. Their watersprouts shot for the moon and only arch over and make fruit after they had re-attained their previous two-story size. The apple and pear trees survive, mostly, with their hollow trunks, but the cherries just die. Dr. Alex Shigo once said, “Some of the most abused trees in the world are fruit trees.” I have used the word ‘abuse’ as sort of a joke when applied to trees. Shigo didn’t. He helped me see small trees, including fruit trees, as deserving respect, another favorite word of that great man.

That said, topping an old apple or pear tree under certain circumstances can be the rational thing to do (just not the ones you see everywhere, all the time). I do believe that the old trees at Pipers Creek Orchard were radically renovated (topped, or severely crown reduced) many years ago. This included a lot of dedicated follow up heading and thinning of the resulting explo-sion of watersprouts. The fruit is, I suspect, bigger and better as it receives more of the tree’s energy and sunlight. And they look

great. I have seen an illustration of topping an old apple tree in an OSU extension bulletin as well. What the bulletin failed to mention is: 1) the tree might die, and 2) if it doesn’t, a lot of follow-up pruning would be needed. Otherwise, your tree turns into a giant mess. The truth is that most people keep their apple trees for sentimental purposes, not maximum fruit production, so such drastic measures don’t make much sense. Then again, with the resurgence in organic, urban, and home food produc-tion, this sort of radical renovation is a valid point of discussion.

Just last year a respected arborist, gardener, and teacher of fruit-tree pruning for PlantAmnesty announced his intent to radically renovate about 40 old fruit trees in a high-use Seattle park, next to the Good Shepherd Center and Tilth. His reasoning made perfect sense, and I’m confident he will do the required follow-up pruning. But when he asked if PlantAmnesty would participate, I just had to decline. Such a public display of crown reduction/topping of trees would feed the beast. No matter what you tell people about the risks and required follow-up pruning, they just go do what they see done and ignore what you say. I feel certain that the primary result of such a project would be that hundreds of neighborhood fruit trees would be ruined by topping and the neglected mess watersprouts that follow.

All of this begs the question, “What’s the difference between a radical reduction and a tree topping?” Well, what the guy did down the block was a case of horrible tree topping, what I did is a radical renovation. Seriously, a lot depends on the skill of the practitioner in weighing the risks and achieving the desired outcomes. A surgery and a mugging can look a lot alike if you are from Mars. In both cases a man sticks a knife in your stomach and relieves you of all your money. Only one is looking out for greater well-being.

All this is very interesting, but not really very important in the larger scheme of things as far as I’m concerned. Grey areas are just that, and I don’t feel the need to codify the entire situational ethics of pruning. I just need to remind people to

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be careful in what they say and do, so that they don’t feed the beast. It is so important. In the next issue, although I may feed the beast, I will address crown reduction on trees (same as drop-crotching) and conifer pruning.

In the Meantime. The questions to consider when making pruning decisions are: do you lock the plant owner into a

high maintenance regime? Is the long-term health of the plant assured? Does it look good? Does it preserve the long-term safety of the tree, or are you making the tree safer now, but more dangerous later? (Remember topping can do that). And, does your pruning enhance or subvert the purpose of the plant (e.g., fruit production, beauty, screen). ▲

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This and That

$100 Reward. PlantAmnesty is offering a $100 REWARD for a usable photo of a selectively pruned gas station landscape over two years old. No plant will be topped, tipped, stripped, or sheared. Go ahead, I challenge you to find even one.

Olerud Wins, Trees Lose. Sports star John Olerud was backed up by the city council of Clyde Hill, which ruled in his favor, forcing the downhill neighbor to remove his Chinese Pine tree, to improve the Olerud view. Increasingly, the desire for water views makes thieves of decent people, and view cov-enants give them license to bully. Olerud bobble heads across the City were burned in effigy.

Third Edition. The third edition of Cass Turnbull’s Guide to Pruning is now available, for the price of $23.00, plus shipping and handling, through the PlantAmnesty website or by request-ing an order blank by phone or mail. This latest edition contains

chapters on pruning Aucuba, Fatsia, Skimmia, Ceonothus, Daphne, Hollywood juniper, Sarcococca, drooping Leucothoe, strawberry tree, Viburnam davidii, Lavetera, Senecio greyi, Perovskia, hardy fuchsia, cape fuchsia, figs, raspberries, grapes, and how to tame the overgrown native plant garden. Give your old book to a needy neighbor or family member and treat your-self to a new one. Author’s signature available upon request.

OSU Uses Us. Email from Oregon State University reads: Cass, We met at the ISA conference in Portland. I joined and picked up your CD six solutions to the overgrown yard. I want to use it in my online course this spring—HORT 315 Landscape Maintenance, Conservation and Restoration. So I would like your permission and we’ll have to divide it up into 3 30 mini seg-ments as students cannot focus on a subject beyond that. Please say yes, they need to hear your message. (ed. note: it exists in short segments on the PlantAmnesty YouTube channel).

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Alison JohnsonFred Kaplan

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Michael KopkeStephenie KramerRobert Krueger

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Sandy LipovskySusan Lock Carol Lumb

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Barbara StevensNora Strothman

Peter TaylorMargaret Thouless

Cheryl ToppingMarcas Trinidad

Cheryl UyejiNicole VanoniEleanor VoyseyCynthia Walton

Mark WardAdam WernerManda White

Allison WilhelmGlenn Whithey &

Charles Price Jill Wright

Andrew YeazelSharon & David

Yonashiro

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the lid that will go over the west end of Highway 520 as part of the current highway project. The meeting was attended by approximately 40 people and, of course, a lively auction followed a won-derful dinner. Hope you will join us at the next MOLM in February.

Arborist Donated Work Day, November 12

PlantAmnesty arborists spend much of their time alone high up in trees where they discover

things like orange-bottomed bees, cedar wax-wings, and spectacular views. But on November 12, a good dozen of them went up in trees together to perform arborist services on a large scale to benefit PlantAmnesty. Thanks to the efforts of these arborists and to others who donated their days’ work on other jobs, PlantAmnesty benefited to the tune of well over $6,000! Arborists on PlantAmnesty’s Referral Service are the best! Our heartfelt thanks go out to the following participating companies:

Apical Tree ServicesFluent Tree Professionals

Madison Park TreeNorthwest Arborvitae

Out on a LimbParagon Tree Care

Seattle Tree PreservationStonehedge Tree Care

Symbiosis TreeThe Tree Stewards-donated the big job as well as work.

Tree ResourceTrees for Life

Celebrity Gardener Gala Dinner Auction, December 5

As predicted, no snow prevented the celebrities and guests from attending this, our most glamorous, profitable and dig-

nified event ever (see photo). The Seattle Golf Club was dressed to the nines in holiday décor, as were the sparkling and occa-sionally tuxedoed guests. Two celebs snuck in wearing black jeans. Guess who? All auction items sold, and attendees opened their wallets and hearts for Fund-a-Dream making us a merry heap of money. That money will be used to fund a new website, the Shear Madness Campaign and more Hispanic outreach. Hits of the auction were the super-cute bunny baby booties, the BBQ with Cass and John, and the Ciscoe Morris Cookie Jar. A veritable platoon of volunteers pulled off the auction without a

Ciscoe Morris cookie jar (top). Fan and celebrity (bottom).

Arborist Paul Thompson and son.

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hitch, including a precision move in, setting up in less than two and a half hours. These volunteers are too numerous to mention by name here, but special thanks are due the team captains: Penny Kriese, Cass Turnbull, Susie Thompson, Keith Dekker, Nathan Copeland, and Susi Bryer. We were substantially aided and advised by key committee member, Ruth Lipscomb, the only one with actual auction experience and supported by our fabulous staff, Margaret Metz-Holland and Laura Watson, who tirelessly and endlessly work for P/A.

Launch of PlantAmnesty/Center for Urban Horticulture Master Pruner Series, December 13

PlantAmnesty and the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Horticulture have joined forces to offer

PlantAmnesty’s popular Master Pruner Series on a fast track. This course is particularly aimed at landscape profession-als, though anyone interested may register. Throughout the winter, on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month, two lectures per day will be offered. After the final class on March 14th, students will still need to take three all-day workshops through PlantAmnesty prior to receiving their Master Pruner Certification. Students may also make up missed classes at

either the PlantAmnesty classes offered in Magnusen Park in North Seattle on the second Sundays of the month or at the classes offered in Everett through the Snohomish Master Gardeners on the second Tuesday of each month through July 2013. See our website for more details.

Holiday Party and Annual Meeting, December 19

By the time, you receive the newsletter, PlantAmnesty’s annual Holiday Party will have happened at CUH. The

party is always a great time for us to connect with new and old friends, review the year, and share hopes for the coming year. You will find a preliminary Annual Report in this newsletter. And we know our award winners: Summa Secare, our highest award, went to Susie thompson; PlantAmnesty’s Friend of the Tree Award went to the west Seattle Garden tour; and the Spousal Stars of Superior Support went to Grant Harkin, John Kriese and John thompson. Retiring board members Nathan Copeland, Lisa turay, and Susie thompson were acknowledged for their contributions with a series of gag gifts. The Events Committee supplied the decor and a fun game. Everyone there donated good food and good fun. ▲

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NewstromKate Allen

Denise AndersonPhoebe AndrewAlison Andrews

Apical Tree ServicesBallard AcupunctureBarbara Asmervig

Auxinaw potteryAnn Ballard

Joanne BenderLynn Bergelin

Ruth Bales-McCleerey

Constance Bollen & Michael Eshelman

Lorine BrakkenRose BrittenhamCarkeek Park Vet

HospitalCaruh Salon & SpaLinda Chalker-Scott

Chateau Ste. Michelle

Chinook Compost Tea

Lucia ChristieJoAnn & Rex ClarkMarianna ClarkCharles & Susan

CopelandNathan CopelandCalvin CreaseyJean M Daniels

Lynn & Ralph DavisKate DayHelen DayJudith Dean

Keith DekkerJohn Dixon

Delta Victoria Ocean PointeShannon DunnElliot Bay Book

CompanyJanet EndsleySuzanne Ferris

Lori & Brian FleckFluent Tree

ProfessionalsFlying Horseshoe

Ranch

Foodease Nutrition & Wellness

Noreen FrinkSuzan GallupJody & Conrad

GehrmannPam & Jay Green

Greencliff Landscape Company

Sandy HanowerChristine HansenSusan HansenLucy Hardiman

Hardwick & SonsGail Hongladarom

Sally IsaiouJ J Jacobie

Arthur Lee JacobsonJ M CellarsShawn KippDan Kraus

Penelope KrieseAlan Lamp

Denise Lane & Roel Allers

A.M. Leonard

George & David Lewis

Cristie LienRuth Lipscomb

Lorey’s Clear the Clutter

Judith LoweMaple Hill Gardens

Carol MaslanMcClendon Hardware

Madison Park TreeEthel McCroskey

StoryPatrick MetivaJessica Moore

Dr. Nancy MorganCiscoe MorrisEileen Morris

Susan MoseleyCharlotte Moss

Katherine NelsonSue Nicol

North Seattle Community College

Northwest Arborvitae

Northwest Flower & Garden Show

Timothy O’ConnorRussell & Janet

OrlandoOut on a LimbPhinney Ridge

EyecareParagon Tree CareConnie & Bobby

PoeShelley Poncy

Nancy PoultneyDebra Prinzing

Analee P ReutlingerOlaf Riberio

Pat & Walt RiehlKahlia Root

JoAnne & Donald Rosen

Nita-Jo RountreeLinda RuizSteve ScottSeattle Tree Preservation

Silver Lake WinerySky NurseryRichie Steffen

Pat StenselJan Stirling

Susan StollerStonehedge Tree

CareSymbiosis Tree

Ian TaylorThe Tree StewardsSusie Thompson

Susie & Bill Thorness

Claudia TidballTree ResourceTrees for Life

Shelagh TuckerUptown GlassworksVictorian Garden

ToursVolunteer Park

Conservancy StaffMargaret Walker

Wells-Medina Nursery

Mary WillGlenn Withey &

Charles PriceMarty Wingate

Phil Wood

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GOAL 1RAISE AWARENESS OF THE PROBLEM OF POOR PLANT MAINTENANCE

Media EventsIn 2012, PlantAmnesty had 12 traditional media events,

meaning coverage on radio, TV, and news or magazines. That includes: Gonzalo Yepes on Spanish-speaking radio four times; and Cass on Ciscoe Morris radio, in Salem, Tacoma, and Olympia newspapers, and in a local NW Landscape Professional Magazine. All this was done to raise awareness, among an estimated 782,000 people, of the crimes against Nature being committed in their own back yards.

Display Booth We also staffed the PlantAmnesty booth seven times

reaching 3,200 people with the good pruning word. Through our booths, we brought in new members from as far away as Brazil, the West Indies, and England.

Nasty Letters (actually, Letters of Concern) We sent out two letters to pruning offenders (high school

shrub shearing and business tree mutilations). And we con-tacted all the Tree Services found through an online Google search that advertize tree topping as a service and asked them not to do that. In Seattle, 10% advertized topping.

GOAL TWO PROvIDE SOLUTIONS

Educational EventsPlantAmnesty supplied speakers for, or otherwise hosted,

54 Pruning Classes reaching 2, 800 people. Talks were given in: Camano Island; Portland, Oregon; Gig Harbor; and Nanaimo, British Columbia, as well as Greater Seattle. Four pruning classes were given in Spanish. Two new venues were opened for the Master Pruner Seminar Series: the Snohomish Master Gardeners in Everett and the UWBG’s Center for Urban Horticulture in Seattle. We graduated nine Master Pruners. We held five, hands-on workshops. We organized the Urban Forest Symposium and the Sky Nursery Prune-a-Thon.

Printed WordWe issued four newsletters to members, with original

educational articles: Why Johnny Can’t Prune, parts 1-3 and Maintaining Ornamental Grasses. And there was some interesting information on deadheading Rhododendrons. We gave away 5,000 Pruning Guides in English and in Spanish. We sold $1,312 worth of educational literature.

The Electronic WordOver the year PlantAmnesty received an estimated

200,000 visits to the website, and pruning literature and other documents were downloaded 320,000 times. Most popular pages are, in descending order: Don’t Top Trees, Pruning Wisteria, About PlantAmnesty, and Pruning Literature.

2012 ANNUAL REPORT

A lot got done in 2012. We upped the number of classes, offering the Master Pruner series through the Snohomish

County Master Gardener Program and again through the UW Botanic Gardens’ Center for Urban Horticulture, as well as through our regular seminars at Magnuson Park. Traditional media events (newspaper/radio/TV) are down, while new media outreach is up (website, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter). We did more free pruning this year (the Zoo, Bradner Gardens, and the sweet old couple of modest means). A lot

of the old gang has retired, and we are probably still looking for some new committee and board members for 2013 by the time you read this. Feel free to contact us, if you are interested. Because of the Celebrity Gardener Dinner Auction, we will end the year in the black, financially speaking. Exact figures won’t be known till after this newsletter reaches you, though. Feel free to ask after January 31. Below is a breakdown of our many great accomplishments, all of which were made possible by members like you. Thank you.

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PA booth at the 2012 Northwest Flower and Garden Show.

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We also filmed How To Prune and Renovate the Overgrown Landscape in Spanish AND we audio recorded two more Master Pruner PowerPoint presen-tations also available on YouTube: Difficult Plants to Prune and Five Easy Plants to Prune. Check it out—we have a PlantAmnesty Channel on YouTube. How cool is that? PlantAmnesty has also increased its pres-ence on Facebook, adding 107 friends since March. An average of 100 persons view the Facebook page every day to see what we are talking about. We were also known to tweet from time to time this year.

Referral Service and Pruning HotlinePlantAmnesty’s Good Gardener and Arborist Referral

Service gave out 949 referrals to a grateful public. Staff mem-bers, Laura watson and Margaret Metz-Holland, responded to 578 inquiries for pruning and plant-related information.

Free PruningOur goal is that good pruning not be just for the rich and

able-bodied, but for all. In honor of that sentiment we did three free prunings for: the Woodland Park Zoo, the Bradner Gardens, and that sweet old couple with the nice overgrown garden that we all know only too well.

GOAL 3ENGENDER RESPECT FOR PLANTS

T2C2 (The Tree Canopy Coalition)Our Take Action button on the website was used by 175

individuals who let the Seattle City Council Mayor and King County representatives know that they are interested in better care and protection of the Urban Forest.

The Seattle Heritage Tree ProgramDuring 2012, 22 trees were nominated and 6 were

accepted. Of those, 3 were declared Best in City, and 3 were found to be Best in Neighborhood. There were no Heritage

Tree Dedication celebra-tions this year.

FundingMost of PlantAmnesty’s

funds come from member-ship dues and donations from members like you, including through the GiveBIG fund drive in May, the Arborist Donated Work Day in November, and the Annual Appeal (AKA The Begging Letter) in December. We also got funds from our classes and workshops, and from our fabulous events—

Tree Hugger Bingo, The Urban Forest Symposium, and the Celebrity Gardener Gala Dinner Auction. Final figures will be available in late January.

We also launched our Sponsorship Program, bringing in $5,744 in 2012. Thank you Davey Tree Expert Company, Fanno Saw Works, Ragan and Associates, SBI Management Services, Seattle Tree Preservation Inc., Sky Nursery, Steuber Distributing Company, Thundering Oak Enterprises, Trees for Life, and Walt’s Organic Fertilizer Company.

We also got grants from the USDA Forest Service and Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Urban and Community Resource Division, from the City of Seattle’s Office of Sustainability and the Environment, and from the ever-generous Anonymous.

Membership Benefits and volunteerismMembers received discounts on classes and events. They

also attended, free of charge, five Meetings of Like Minds with topics of interest and a splendid Holiday party. They got access to our expansive CyberLibrary. Members also benefited from the Adopt-a-Plant program, with 192 adoptions being brokered by PlantAmnesty. Members received four fabulous, funny, and informative newsletters. All members everywhere got a warm, fuzzy feeling inside because their membership allows us to fight plant abuse in Washington State, the nation, and, yes, around the world. We know because we get emails and letters from grateful kindred spirits far and wide.

Of those not on committees or the board, PlantAmnesty had 291 volunteers donate 1,394 hours of volunteer work. Thank you all, you know who you are.

Fluffy or smooth?

2012 ANNUAL REPORT

Special Thanks to Hardwick and Son’s

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If you want to lead a sustainable lifestyle and do your part to save our planet from

its exponentially accelerating demise, there’s an easy thing you can do to contribute in a big way: help in the war against stormwater runoff by catching some of that valuable water and reusing it to water your garden. It’s like a two-for-one Groupon for sustainability. How can you say no? Well, I certainly didn’t.

It was summer when I bought my new, lovely, plastic brick-colored rain barrel from some King County website for around $85. It didn’t come with instructions, but looked pretty easy. Simply disconnect one of the downspouts on your house from the pipe that carries it out to the sewer and insert rain barrel. Fast and easy. I was ready to start saving the planet.

I waited patiently until fall when it started raining. Wee haw! I was very excited. During the first rain, I went out to see how my new barrel was doing. “That’s funny,” I thought, “it’s only been raining for a couple of hours and the barrel is already full. I’m going to have to use up that water pretty quick before it rains again (tomorrow).” I did the math and realized I’d need to empty it out about a gazillion more times before I’d actually need to use the water in May or so. Hmmm.

I solved that first problem by cutting up one of my garden hoses and attaching a section to the spigot at the bottom of the barrel. I ran the hose to our pea gravel path, so that water could drain out (for approximately 6 months) until I needed it (next summer). I had to raise the barrel up on concrete blocks to so it was high enough to drain well. Obviously, that made it look even more attractive – now even people walking down the street could see my contribution to the planet. The drain-age hose seemed like the perfect solution—until it decided to rain harder than a Seattle drizzle. During our first big rain storm, I went out to check on the barrel. Uh ohhhh. It was filling up faster than it was draining. So I added another hose section to drain water from the spigot about halfway up the side. Problem two: solved.

Some time passed. It was still fall. One morning before work, I had to run down to the extra bedroom in our basement. I didn’t turn on the light because I knew where I was going. Suddenly my socks were soaked. What the . . . ??? I turned

on the light and, to my horror, realized the room was flooded. The garage was flooded, too. I went outside and was totally confused when I found that the rain barrel was practically empty. Then I saw the small handful of leaves that had collected on top of the barrel, creating a sloppy, leafy seal and redirecting water down the back of the barrel to collect in a giant, muddy swamp along the whole

length of our house. Several long days were spent sucking water out of the basement, turning the house into a tropical island at 90 degrees, running the dehumidifier, bringing a giant rug to the dump, and reorganizing all of our stuff to account for flooding. I won’t tell you what our electricity or heat bill was that month.

Thus began our long winter. It consisted of waking up in the middle of the night in a state of panic, grabbing the flash-light that we now kept in the window of the empty bedroom, and checking to see if the basement was flooding. Or running out half-asleep in the dark—in winter mind you—in pajamas and slippers, in the rain, checking for leaves or some new rain barrel malfunction I had not yet discovered. And did I mention driving home from work on my lunch break during various downpours? Ah, the joys of do-goodery.

After several basement floodings, spring and then summer eventually came. My new conundrum was when to keep the drain hose open, so the barrel wouldn’t overflow, and when to close it up so I it could fill up and I could start watering. During our first dry spell, sometime in June, I finally was able to use our long-worked for free rainwater. I used it up on one good watering of the raspberries and teenage Japanese maple. I don’t think the rain ever filled it all the way up again before the end of summer.

Alas, we removed the rain barrel, which was a relief, because boy was it ugly. I sold it on Craig’s list. If I had had dozens I could have sold them all. I couldn’t bear to put a damper on the purchaser’s delight that she’d finally be able to water her garden all summer long for free. She couldn’t understand why I would sell such a thing.

So went my experience with rain barrels. I tried. I failed. I know. I’ll get a cistern! ▲

Misadventures of a Do-GooderBy Ivana B. Greene

Does thinking about yard work in the winter give you the chills? Hire a starving gardener or arborist from the PlantAmnesty Good Gardener and Arborist Referral Service. They want to be out in your yard, mulching, fruit tree pruning, cutting back perennials, pruning unruly vines, transplanting, raking, and pruning. King County gardeners and arborists are standing by. Call or email Laura at PlantAmnesty—206-783-9813 x3 or Laura.watson@plantamnesty.org—for the names of three gardeners who will suit your needs. Choose the one with whom you feel simpatico.

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Sunday, January 13, 10am—noon, Master Pruner Class—Rose Pruning with Keith Dekker(see Class List on page 13)

Sunday, February 10, 10am—noon, Master Pruner Class—Fruit Tree Pruning with Don Marshall(see Class List on page 13)

Tuesday, February 19, 7pm—9pm, Meeting of Like Minds (MOLM)The February MOLM will be hosted by PlantAmnesty’s Education/Outreach Committee. Meghan Fuller will explain how to avoid gardening gaffes and design disasters in her presentation entitled, You Planted What? These meetings are potlucks, although you don’t have to bring anything to be able to eat—a small donation will pay your way out of minor guilt. We also have a fun auction, the proceeds of which help to pay the hall rent, and announcements of current events. Meetings are free and open to the public. Find us at NHS Hall at the Center for Urban Horticulture, 3501 NE 41st Street in NE Seattle.

February 20-24, Booth #2314 at the Northwest Flower and Garden ShowAs always, PlantAmnesty’s wonderful volunteers will staff a booth at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show. We will feature an updated gallery of horrors, answer zillions of questions about pruning and landscape maintenance, and offer for sale Cass turnbull’s brand new expanded edition of Cass Turnbull’s Guide to Pruning. We will also sign up oodles of new members and have scads of timely and accurate pruning literature on hand. Come by to see us at our corner booth (#2314) next to the plant market. Cass will be speak-ing twice at the show—first on Saturday, February 23, at 11:30am on the topic of Renovating Ugly Rhodies and then on Sunday at 1:45pm on Tuff Luv: Renovating the Overgrown Garden. Cass will stop by the booth after both talks to sign books—come by and see her! For the first time, PlantAmnesty staff member Laura watson will be speaking at the Flower Show on Friday evening at 7:00 pm on The Queen of Climbers: The Care and Pruning of Clematis.

If you would like to volunteer to staff our booth for a three-hour shift during the Flower Show (and get free entry to the show for the whole day!), contact Laura watson at 206-783-9813 or laura.watson@plantamnesty.org.

Saturday, March 2, 9am—4pm, PlantAmnesty Prune-A-Thon at Sky NurseryCome to Sky Nursery on Saturday, March 2, for our FOUrtH Annual Prune-a-thon. We will offer free pruning classes on two stages throughout the day on topics such as Japanese maples, rhododendrons, fruit trees, roses, clematis, and more! A bevy of professional garden designers will offer free 15-minute garden-design consultations, so bring along a photo of an area in your garden that needs reworking. As always, we will showcase our popular gallery of pruning horrors and offer great informa-tion on pruning the right way. We will be joined in offering information and advice by some of our sister organizations, such as the Master Gardeners, Seattle Tilth, the Seattle Rose Society, and the Seattle Tree Fruit Society.

If you would like to help us put on the best Prune-a-Thon EVER, we need volunteers for setup, takedown, boothing, greeting, and more. Contact Laura watson at 206-783-9813 or laura.watson@plantamnesty.org.

Sunday, March 10, 10am—noon, Master Pruner Class Japanese Garden Pruning with Cass Turnbull(see Class List on page 13) ▲

Upcoming Events

Please mail form below to: PlantAmnesty, PO Box 15377, Seattle, WA 98115-0377

——— PlantAmnesty’s Pruning and Garden Renovation Workshops ———Spring—Saturday, April 20, 2013, 10 am—3 pm

Fall—Saturday, September 14, 2013, 10 am—3 pm Fall (in Spanish)—Friday, October 11, 2013, 8:30 am—3:30 pm

The Renovation Workshop is a popular hands-on all-day event that features a rare 3:1 student-teacher ratio and real-world experi-ence. Students will learn pruning and creative solutions for the overgrown garden as an entire yard is renovated during the class. The day begins with a lecture followed by hands-on experience out in the yard. Topics discussed will be pruning, transplanting, and landscape maintenance. The group will move through an overgrown landscape while instructors give on-the-spot evaluations of plants and demonstrations of pruning. Workshop participants will then cycle between jobs to learn what the landscape has to offer.

The workshop typically takes place at a private residence within King County selected for its neglected state and diverse plant material so as to provide class instruction on a wide variety of topics. All participants receive a pruning DVD and handouts on various pruning topics.

——— PlantAmnesty’s Fruit Tree Field Day ——— Saturday, July 20, 2013, 10 am—3 pm

First, in a morning lecture, an expert in the field will cover the basics of fruit-tree pruning. The lecture is followed by an afternoon of live fruit-tree pruning demonstrations in small groups. This workshop will take place at a site in the Seattle area.

These workshops are for home gardeners, landscape professionals, and students in the Master Pruner Program. Complete details and materials will be sent to students a few weeks prior to the workshop.

Questions: PlantAmnesty at 206-783-9813 (please leave a message) or info@plantamnesty.org. For more information about the Master Pruner classes check out: www.plantamnesty.org.

Preregistration is required for all workshops—space is limited.

PlantAmnesty Workshops

Spring Renovation WorkshopSaturday, April 20, 2013

Fruit Tree Field DaySaturday, July 20, 2013

Fall Renovation WorkshopSaturday, September 14, 2013

Spanish Renovation WorkshopFriday, October 11, 2013

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Master Pruner Series Sponsored by Steuber Distributing Company, 308 3rd St, Snohomish, WA 360-568-2626

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Plantamnesty Presents: Cass turnbull’s Master Pruner Program

2013 Pruning ClassesPruning expert Cass Turnbull and other guest instructors teach topic-specific pruning tech-

niques in this series of in-depth classes and workshops. The Master Pruner Program is the

set of classes and workshops that, when completed, certifies the student as a Master Pruner.

These classes are open to home gardeners, landscape professionals, and horticulture students.

Complete the entire series to earn a certificate or just attend a few classes. Horticulture stu-

dents can apply their college pruning classes towards certification. Master Gardener and ISA

CEUs can be earned. No pre-registration is required for the Sunday morning classes.

WHERE: Warren G. Magnuson Park, the Brig (Bldg #406) 7400 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, 98115 (unless it’s a workshop)

WHEN: Sundays, 10 am to noon (except for Workshops)

COST: $20 per class, $15 for PlantAmnesty members, $5 for horticulture students and native Spanish speakers

Questions? email info@plantamnesty.org or call PlantAmnesty at 206-783-9813.

Also sponsored by FANNO Saw Works http://www.fannosaw.com

PlantAmnesty Offices, Classes and Events

2013 Schedule• 1/13: Roses• 2/10: Fruit Trees• 3/10: Japanese Pruning• 4/14: Easy Plants• 4/20: Renovation Workshop• 5/12: Shrubs 2• 6/9: Trees 2• 7/14: Difficult Plants• 7/20: Fruit Tree Field Day• August—no class• 9/8: Renovate/Prune• 9/14: Renovation Workshop• 10/11: Renovation Workshop

(en Español) • 10/13: Tools • 11/10: Horrors• December—no class

Upcoming Pruning Classes

Sunday, January 13— Rose PruningLearn the basics of rose pruning—hybrid tea, shrub, and climbing roses. Tools and timing are also covered. Taught by Keith Dekker

Sunday, February 10— Fruit TreesLearn the basics of fruit-tree pruning, covering apple, cherry, plum, and pear trees. Taught by Don Marshall

Sunday, March 10— Japanese PruningJapanese gardens are among the most admired gardens in the world. To create and maintain them requires a high level of pruning skill and dedicated annual maintenance. This class covers the pruning of Japanese maples (upright and weeping), bamboo, cloud pruning pines, and tamamono sharing of lower-story elements. Taught by Cass Turnbull

Sunday, April 14— Easy Plants to PruneThis class covers basic cuts, basic plant habits, and what Cass Turnbull calls the pruning budget. Then five plants that are relatively easy to prune are discussed: nandina, evergreen azalea, lilac, camellia, and yew. Taught by Cass Turnbull

The Master Pruner Seminar Series is also available through the Snohomish County Master Gardeners, on 2nd Tuesdays. Call Karie @ 425-357-6039 or email chris-tensen4@wsu.edu. The Master Pruner Series will also be available in winter months on 2nd and 4th Thursdays at the University of Washington Botanic Gardens, Center for Urban Horticulture. For more information call 206-685-8033 or email urbhort@uw.edu.

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west Seattle: a 10+ foot tall pine, only planted about three years ago, needs a new home because it’s in a bad location. Contact Matt at 206-271-2739 or giantfork@earthlink.net.

Northgate: Two 5' tall pine trees in 40 gallon containers. They need to find a good home in the ground. No room where they are currently at. Smaller pine seedlings up to 1' tall available also. Call Suzie at 206-228-1086.

South Seattle-Claremont: Five western red cedar seedlings, 2' tall each and one spruce seedling 1' tall. No room in Russell’s yard for them to reach maturity. Contact him at 206-765-9128 and take them off his hands.

Magnolia: One beautiful Alaska weeping cedar, horizontally trained. Needs to be removed has its getting too big for its spot. Photos avail-able. Contact Catherine at chowoo@comcast.net.

Maple Leaf: one 7' tall volunteer dogwood tree, presumably a native, needs a new home. Leaf edges turn dark red In fall, then the entire leaf becomes a deep vibrant yellow. Photos available via email upon request. Contact Jennifer at punsuch@gmail.com or 206-633-0294.

west Seattle: One multi-trunked Aralia elata (or Japanese Angelica Tree) that a little over 10' tall and sports green leaves. Bees love it in flower and cedar waxwings flock to eat the berries. Contact Kitty or Sam at 206-935-2096 or ritzenth@hhmi.org.

Kirkland: one young lilac bush (Lilac Pres. Grevy) is available for adoption. Plant is currently 2.5' tall, but when mature should be 10-12' tall and wide. Contact Lily at lilygmail-temp@yahoo.com.

Ballard: one beautiful Styrax japonica, or Japanese Snowbell tree, needs a new home. Photos available via email upon request. Contact Karen at sweetpmt@drizzle.com.

Juanita: 8-10 seedlings of Paeonia ludlowii available to new homes. These beautiful tree peonies may grow to be as large at 6' tall x 8' wide and have lovely intense sulpher-colored flowers that look like chinese silk. Then in fall they sport beautiful seed pods. Seedlings range between 1' - 5' tall. Contact Ellen at 425-823-6420.

west Seattle: two crabapple trees that fill with pink blossoms in the spring are available for adoption. They are both y approximately 10 years old, 10 feel tall, and 10 feet wide (at the widest point). Because they are by the street, access is very easy. Contact Tina at 206-547-1374 or tina@neonbrown.com.

Adopt-A-Plant. You call, you dig, you haul, that’s all.

The PlantAmnesty Adopt-a-Plant list is available on our website for members. If you do not have access to the internet, please call us at 206-783-9813, x3 and we’ll mail you a current copy of the complete list.

Adopt-A-Plant is a PlantAmnesty membership perk. But you don’t have to be a member to put a plant up for adoption. No money shall be given or received for these plants; if you are hired to transplant any,

of course your labor (only) may be charged. Keep things neighborly!

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