From Our Backyard to Yours

The Creative Residency program provides artists and innovative thinkers with a three-week stay in a well-appointed home on the Bloedel grounds, with unlimited access to the Reserve’s 150 acres of sculpted gardens, forests, and wildlife habitats. Just imagine — unstructured time to immerse yourself in your work, to rest, to be inspired.

Online applications will be taken through October 1, 2020. Residents for 2021 will be announced in November. For all the details, dates, and deadlines, click here.

Visitors to Bloedel Reserve ask lots of questions. A big one this summer has been “What’s with the algae problem on the pond?” In fact, what you’re looking at is not algae at all. To find out more about these aquatic plants and what we are doing to manage them, click here.

The gorgeous views and the wide variety of plant life aren’t the only reasons to visit Bloedel Reserve. The Reserve is home to a wide variety of animals, insects, and birds. This week, you can learn a bit more about one of our nocturnal residents — the Barred Owl.

There are a limited number of spots still available for the Fall sessions of our Strolls for Well-Being program, but they are filling quickly. Don’t wait! For details and to register for a Fall session, click here.

Occasionally we like to share stories, articles, photos, and other information that might be of interest to Bloedel Reserve friends and fans. This recent article by Rebecca Mead in The New Yorker, titled The Therapeutic Power of Gardening, is particularly meaningful as we are all finding ways to cope with the life changes COVID-19 has brought about.