All twelve AmeriCorps members lent a helping hand to Education Coordinator Patrick Mulligan and spruced up the site’s greenhouse and connecting back garden beds. Staff members at the Arboretum have plans to turn the greenhouse into an education center for schools and to hold classes for the public. The EOS team did a spic-and-span job of tidying and organizing the place! Hai and Brianna rearranged and reorganized the tool bank, Courtney and Britta ran a thorough sweep and wipe down of the greenhouse’s East Wing while Tim, Tom and Cari tackled the West Wing. Lacey, Kelly and Calvin willingly scrubbed and dried hundreds of plastic planting pots. Sam and Andrew committed their attention to cleaning and marking tools belonging to the garden. The group spent the last hours of the day outside in the back garden clearing rebar beds of weeds and moss.



The Arboretum lies on the south end of the University of Washington’s campus and is jointly cared and tended to by UW and the City of Seattle. The word arboretum literally translates to “tree place”. This specific tree place is 230 acres and is home to a dynamic assortment of 10,000 living plants found nowhere else. Some of its collections are the finest in the United States, including maples, oaks, hollies and mountain ash. Learn more about the Arboretum and its plant collections here!