EVERGREENS
Issue 22, Winter 2023
Evergreens in the Port Gamble forest with Olympic Mountains in the background. photo by John F. Williams
EVERGREENS
Issue 22, Winter 2023
Guest Managing Editor: John F. Williams
(Table of Contents is below this intro)
As part of the Pacific Northwest, the Salish Sea region is known for its evergreens. Winter time is when the evergreen-ness of evergreens seems most obvious.
Red-legged frog on fir trunk. photo by Randena Walsh
But why are there evergreens? How do their needles or leaves keep from freezing? Do they offer other creatures some wintertime benefits that non-evergreens don’t?
How many different kinds of evergreens are there? You may be surprised to learn that they are not all trees. More on those topics in the articles and poems in this issue.
This first release of the Winter 2023 issue contains a set of poems and a story that takes you along on a “ramble through a forest” to view some of the other creatures besides the trees.
Evergreen needles on a trail and no longer green. photo by Randena Walsh
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Evergreen kinnikinnick flowering in April. photo by John F. Williams
Issue 22, Table of Contents
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Gardening With Native Evergreen Plants
by John Bolivar
Winter 2023
Winter months here in the Pacific Northwest can be a lonely time, especially if your best friends are flowers. Evergreens offer us some green comfort during the winter gloom.
Magic of Evergreens
by Sarah Ottino
Winter 2023
For many, the term “evergreen” invokes images of fir-covered hills veiled in misty clouds or memories of winter holidays. What are evergreens? How do they survive Winter?
Seeing Beyond the Trees
by Mary Johnson
Winter 2023
Evergreen trees dominate the landscape on the western side of Washington State. Looking more closely, there’s a community of wildlife, often unnoticed, that depend on these trees
Poetry 22
by various poets
Winter 2023
Here are three poems celebrating the wide variety of creatures whose lives are intertwined with the evergreens — especially in the winter when chlorophyll isn’t as abundant.
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