From Our Backyard to Yours

That pleasing, sweet scent in the autumn air isn’t blooming flowers. It’s the Katsura Tree in the Japanese Garden. To read more about this lush specimen and its distinctive fragrance, click here.

The Creative Residency program provides artists and innovative thinkers with a three-week stay on the Bloedel Reserve grounds — offering a truly unique opportunity to create, ponder, and dream immersed in nature. Online applications are now open for 2021 residencies and will be taken through October 1, 2020. For all the details and deadlines, click here.

Painter and VR artist Nathan DiPietro will be in residence this month to continue his work creating 3D digital paintings of the Reserve. His residency in March was cut short due to our COVID closure. To read more about Nathan and see video clips of some of his work, click here.

Bloedel Reserve is pleased to be one of the sponsors of a new, 3-part PBS series on nature this fall. KCTS9 will air The Age of Nature on Wednesdays, October 14, 21 & 28, at 7 PM. To celebrate the series, KCTS9 is holding a virtual kick-off event using Zoom. On Wednesday, September 30, at 5:30 PM, a panel of experts will discuss the history, cultural relationships, and changing ecology of the Pacific Northwest. Tickets are free but space is limited.