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Volunteers Work the Welcome Garden
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as...
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Golden Guys at the Garden Show: Phil Wood and Riz Reyes
Two leaders of Seattle Chinese Garden’s horticultural committee swept top honors at the 2013 Northwest Flower and Garden Show. Designers for 23 gardens took inspiration from the show theme of “The...
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Red Flowers Hidden Among Twigs
Today, garden manager Amy Converse reports on the peonies from China that survived their first winter in America. "Just thought you'd like to know that all of the peonies have been tagged and are...
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The Red Rubber Band
We walk on and off the plane as if we are going on a car ride to a summer cabin or to visit grandmother who lives a long, but endurable distance. Even at 11.5 hours, for us, getting on a plane to go...
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Bees and Buds - Spring Window at Xi Hua Yuan
Briefly the sun shone. I was fooled into thinking Spring was just around the corner. Within seconds, my knees were soaked as I knelt low to capture the new buds, so perfectly fresh, stunningly regal....
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Boeing BAAPA Plans Seattle Chinese Garden Kite Festival for August
The Boeing Asian American Professional Association (BAAPA) has offered to plan the first annual Seattle Chinese Garden Kite Festival. BAAPA is a voluntary association of employees working in...
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Garden Sends Delegation to Luoyang 洛阳 with Seattle Deputy Mayor Darryl Smith
Kirk Chia, Jiang Yiqiao, Phil Woods, and Riz Reyes with peony roots donated from the city of Luoyang in NovemberIn hopes of establishing an annual Seattle Luoyang Peony Festival at the Seattle Chinese...
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Delegation Led by Deputy Mayor Smith Receives Enthusiastic Welcome in Luoyang
Red banners rolled out and temple gates opened. The city of Luoyang made it very clear that this first official US delegation to their annual Peony Festival was cause for celebration. Delegates from...
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Luoyang 洛阳 Works with Seattle to Establish Local Annual Peony Festival
Vice Mayor Wang Jinglin and Deputy Mayor Darryl Smith sign a memorandum of understanding between the city of Luoyang and the city of Seattle as a result of meetings held in Luoyang, China April 10th...
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West Seattle Hidden Gem Perfect Place to Picnic and Celebrate World Tai Chi...
Chaliese Poset from Seattle captures restorative energy in the GardenOn a beautiful Spring day in Seattle, where do you go to capture the intoxicating rays and energize your spirit? Where do you soak...
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Cornerstone Installed in Welcome Garden
The heart of the Garden can be found in stone. Inscribed with the unique calligraphy of the late John Chien and digitized by his granddaughter, the newly installed large stone welcomes visitors with...
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Deputy Mayor Smith Promotes Seattle and Garden in Luoyang, China
At the Seattle-Luoyang seminar on cultural and economic trade and investment in Luoyang, China, deputy mayor Darryl Smith conveyed Seattle's interest in cooperation and trade during a meeting with the...
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New Chinese Radio Seattle (西雅图中文电台) Hosts Garden Volunteers
From left, Chinese Radio Seattle host Lilian Liu with volunteers Yanlin Peng and Xiuling SuThe newly established Chinese Radio Seattle, the first totally Mandarin radio program to broadcast in...
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Seattle-Luoyang Peony Festival - Princes and Princesses Abound
Peonies sent to Seattle from Luoyang for the Festival (Jim Dawson photo)The Garden's first ever Seattle-Luoyang Peony Festival held court last weekend with a small but dedicated crowd, curious and...
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Plucking the Strings of your Heart
Ena Wang playing the guzheng in Knowing the Spring Courtyard for the Seattle-Luoyang Peony Festival(Sandy Marvinney photo)Last weekend during the Peony Festival at the Seattle Chinese Garden, we had...
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Seattle Chinese Garden Replicated in Beijing
The 9th China International Garden Expo officially opened last month in Beijing. Started in 1997, and held 8 times in 8 different cities across China, the Expo exhibits a total of 128 gardens,...
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Great Garden TIPS
Grace Peer kept working while we talked. She was soaking newspapers in buckets of water and placing them on dry beds and then piling huge mounds of mulch on top. "Some people use cardboard," she...
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Boeing Kite Festival High-Flying Success
What better way to celebrate summer than to fly a kite, and how fitting that the kite festival at the Seattle Chinese Garden was hosted by Boeing volunteers, experts in building flying aircraft.The...
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SCG Board Members Thank Volunteers With a Party
Janice and David Hendrickson may have lost their way in the hinterlands of Woodinville where SCG President Jon Geiger and his wife Heidi were hosting the annual thank you party for volunteers, but...
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Summer's Bounty
This summer, the Garden celebrated the culture of China with a variety of activities - many of them centered around martial arts. In late August, Dr. Lu Mei Hui and Master Chang Wu Na from the Wudang...
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