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Even downtown ho would Seattle, a recent have victim of neglect, thought has turned a corner. in 2019 that a global If you have not pandemic would been downtown lead to a real estate lately, go. Start with boom? Today, we a morning at the are faced with a new Pike Place Market, set of uncertainand then walk up to ties: rising inflation, Toby Lumpkin Nordstrom to buy a correction in the Property Views a new outfit. You’ll tech sector of the notice the streets are stock market. cleaner and more welcoming than All of this does not necessarthey were even six months ago. ily mean doom and gloom for This all brings us back to real the Northwest real estate market. The region is fortunate to be estate. Over the mid- and longbuoyed by two of the world’s great term, real estate is a terrific hedge companies, Amazon and Microagainst inflation, and if your soft, and a plethora of smaller timeline is over five years, there is tech companies that offer great very little chance your home will compensation and require a wide decrease in value. According to range of services and professions the Case-Shiller Index, over the past five years, the average home to support them. We also still in Seattle has gone up 82 percent build airplanes, launch new ships with an annualized rate of return and produce a diverse array of of 13 percent. Since 1990, the outstanding wood products.
annualized home price increase has been 6.07 percent for a total return of over 558 percent. During that same period, beginning in 1990, for your home to end up down in value after five years, you had to buy your home between April 2007 and December 2008. In short, your home is a safe and stable investment. It turns out that the greatest
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Bridge the seasons with long-bloomers
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nce those periods. you’ve To bridge the gardened gaps, consider awhile, you see some of these there are seasons powerhouse within seasons plants that choose in the border. to bloom earlier The dream is to and later. have something in bloom nearly Ornamental every week of the onion year — which, Allium bulbs, thanks to our particularly the climate — is large varieties, within reach for bloom a long Seattle gardeners, time, and even Erica Browne Grivas with some space when officially Get Growing and planning. The past their prime, Bellevue Botheir unusual tanical Garden’s globe-shaped Perennial Border is an excellent flowers stay upright but faded, example. adding structure and height for Of course, it’s fine to have weeks. Some even spray paint lulls in your garden — maybe them for color into fall! Some you prefer to have two or three varieties to look for include blockbuster blooms rather than “Globemaster,” “Purple Sensation” stretching a variety over a longer and “Mount Everest.” period. For instance, a border with These perennials are usually spring bulbs followed by daylilies purchased and planted in bulb or dahlias. Today, I’ll deal with form in fall, but nurseries are carextending your flower power durrying potted ones now. ing those lulls by choosing plants wisely. Wallflowers Erysimum hybrids, also known Mind the gap as wallflowers, are some of the There are a great many plants blooming-est plants you’ll ever that bloom from April into midfind. They were doing High May, and many from June into Intensity Interval Training before July, so it’s relatively easy to cover it became trendy. While techni-
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Agastache ‘Blue Boa’ offer showy, violet cattail-like blooms like these featured in columnist Erica Browne Grivas’s garden. They emerge early, ready to cover over dying spring bulb foliage, and bloom from May through October, helped with a bit of deadheading, which releases a minty fragrance. cally perennial, they may fade out after several years out of sheer exhaustion. New varieties come in
a host of sunset colors with names like “Winter Orchid”and “Apricot Twist,” while “Bowles’ Mauve” is
an heirloom favorite. Some are
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GARDEN, FROM PAGE 3 highly fragrant, so test before buying if this is important to you. They begin blooming in April and can continue for two months if deadheaded. Summer brings a well-earned rest, but if you trim them back and offer some compost and liquid fertilizer, you’ll see renewed blooms in September. They prefer well-drained soil and can take partial shade. Pollinators love these too. Calendula Another precocious bloomer that likes the weather on the cool side, calendula starts in May and blooms through July if deadheaded and watered in the heat. Like erysimum, they will perk up again when the heat of summer fades for a second show if trimmed and watered through the summer. As a bonus, calendula flowers are edible, making lovely additions to
salads and summer beverages and are a common ingredient in natural salves and creams. These are “half-hardy annuals” that can seed around, but I always find them a welcome presence. You can sow them in autumn or earliest spring or buy started plants now. Perennial geraniums Let’s get the names clear first. Botanically, these plants, like geranium endressii, or G. pilostemon, own the name geranium, rather than the pretender window-basket annuals who took it over — those are really called pelargonium. These are mat-forming perennials that make a great groundcover, bloom for months and host pollinators, too. Their leaves often take on red fall tones, too. They’re not evergreen, but you can’t have everything. The best I’ve found so far is geranium “Rozanne,” which blooms in violet blue on my very
Force 10 Facilities, LLC (F10F), submitted a Master Use Permit application for a new, state-of-the-art professional basketball performance center, May 20. The center will serve as the dedicated practice facility for the WNBA’s Seattle Storm. Its design will both celebrate the Storm’s success in Seattle and allow the franchise to expand its efforts to grow opportunities for female athletes and youth in the city. F10F is developing the Seattle Storm Center for Basketball Performance on a 50,000-squarefoot parcel in Seattle’s Interbay neighborhood. The design will include two side-by-side basketball courts, the “Storm Team Center” with locker rooms, a lounge and a nutrition center for the players, and strength and conditioning training spaces. The facility will include room for diagnostics and physical therapy, as well as the franchise’s business offices. Construction is expected to begin in spring 2023 and be completed in time for training camp ahead of the 2024 WNBA season. “We are excited to create a state-of-the-art training facility for our team and for our city. The Storm facility will provide our athletes with a dedicated space to support them holistically, from training to health and wellness,” Seattle Storm co-owner Lisa Brummel said. “This facility reflects our franchise legacy, our
athletes’ success, and aims to promote and grow the women’s game and expand youth access to play.” The women-led project team includes owner’s representative barrientosRYAN LLC, a design team led by ZGF Architects and Shive-Hattery Architects, general contractor Sellen Construction and landscape architect Walker Macy. Additional project partners include Coughlin Porter Lundeen, Holmes, Prime Electric, PAE, Apollo Mechanical, Counterbalance Consulting, PanGeo, Counsilman-Hunsaker, Bargreen Ellingson, Heffron Transportation, RDH, Studio Pacifica and BRC Acoustics. F10F’s goal is to build a worldclass facility for world-class
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“Erysimum hybrids, also known as wallflowers, are some of the blooming-est plants you’ll ever find. They were doing High Intensity Interval Training before it became trendy.” dry hillside from April through October. Seriously. Agastaches The blue/purple agastaches have proven strong performers in my parking strip, which is even worse soil than my dry hillside. While I adore the orange and yellow agastaches, the blooms are
female athletes with women-led teams, supported by men and women who are experts in their areas of specialty. Currently, 85 percent of all project team members across all disciplines are women. The project is designed to achieve LEED® Gold certification, featuring all-electric operations and a rooftop photovoltaic array. Upon the building’s completion, the franchise will continue its longstanding work with nonprofit and community partners, welcoming them to its new home to collaborate in supporting community development. For more information on the project, visit https://www.sellen. com/storm.
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more sparse, and the plants seem flightier. The optimistically named “Blue Fortune” and “Blue Boa” offer showy, cattail-like blooms — with “Fortune” being more blue, and “Boa” being more violet. They emerge early, ready to cover over dying spring bulb foliage, and bloom from May through October, helped with a bit of deadheading, which you won’t mind because it releases a delightful minty fragrance. Rudbeckias More reliably perennial in most situations than echinaceas, the rudbeckia family includes many stalwart bloomers for lateseason color, from the old standby black-eyed Susan “Goldsturm” and “Henry Ellers” for front and mid-border to lesser-used tall varieties like R. iacinata (cutleaf coneflower — droopy lemon petals with a green eye) or giant R. maxima with a black center. The
black-eyed Susans don’t even get started until July and then just keep going until October. Note that the appealing R. hirtas that appear in nurseries in July like “Cherry Brandy” in rusty red are not typically perennial. Annuals Pelargonium, what many call geraniums, may be the longestflowering annual for a sunny spot. Pair it with fragrant alyssum, and you have a bulletproof combo for the season. The alyssum may even return if it’s happy. Pansies and especially their wilder viola cousins, bloom super-early, sometimes shrugging off snow, for about two months and reprise their performance in fall if given compost and water. Certain violas, like “Molly Sanderson” and “Etain” may return and expand over the years. Try sprinkling some of these into your border plans and watch them boost your flower power.
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hat I dream in sentences may seem a bit odd. Except it isn’t, really. How the sentences began is a story in itself, intertwined with my love of reading, prompted by whatever book I’m immersed in or, more likely, by my opinion of whatever book I’m immersed in. I hear the words. Then, slowly, they emerge. And I never thought the same way about dreaming once the sentences became visible, words that want nothing more than to make my mind a truer place in which to live. They are not always successful. Nor are they new to my dream cycles. When I was a kid, “Highlights” was my favorite read, and mine alone, though I was supposed to share the magazines with my sisters. I didn’t share them with my sisters. In winter, I hid them under my bed, in summer, in my tree fort. No one ever found me in my fort, and that’s what I wanted. Without interruption, which I also wanted, I was eager to know myself in the world outside of my family, my school, my street. My fort was neat, airy, and when the afternoon sun hit the paper birch, the white bark illuminated everything, every tree, every plant, every insect hovering in the air between the lowest
branches and I’m not the ground, saying every remindhuge house is ing me that chaos waiting the forest to happen. was forever I’m just saying encroachthat’s how I ing, which, internalize I think, is a them. Listenperfectly uning to my derstandable parents’ marentitlement. riage implode It was about within the this time sturdy splitthat I started level my father Mary Lou Sanelli dreaming in built, my fort Falling Awake sentences. became, not My father all at once but said, “Don’t as the fights let the neighbor kids climb up,” intensified, a requirement for the which didn’t bother me. rest of my life. I felt more at home I didn’t want the neighbor kids in my fort than anywhere else. I to climb up. But I couldn’t imagthink I’ve been searching for that ine what he meant by “dangersame feeling ever since. ous.” To me, the weather-beaten A few of my homes have come boards weren’t a hazard, but safety. close. Sometimes I feel as if my I thought the trim lopsidedness true place is still out there. of my three walls (it was more of I write terribly in the dark, and a lean-to) was its most endearing most mornings I have no memory quality. of the sentences. To this day, a well-kept cottage But when I re-read the scribble, can fill me with house-envy. But I see how the words want to matit’s not like that when I see lavish ter just as much as I do; they want reflections of wealth. It’s as if I to try. They work hard at coming can feel certain tensions seeping into my subconscious. They bomb out, and then, there they are, gath- just as often. But they try. ering in a sleepy sentence inside My last 3 a.m. sentence said of my head. everything people like me like
“When I was a kid, ‘Highlights’ was my favorite read, and mine alone, though I was supposed to share the magazines with my sisters. I didn’t share them with my sisters. In winter, I hid them under my bed, in summer, in my tree fort.” to say to themselves, “Writing is the ritual I found for myself so that my life and my work would always be the same.” Two hours later, the words were harsher. They posed a question. Two questions. Then, a startling truth. “The New York Times” was my portal in between dreams (never a good idea), the Russian invasion of Ukraine, human suffering I didn’t want to think about, but I made myself read every account. For another hour I tossed and turned in the aftermath. It was 5:30 a.m. when I scrawled, “What about that bomb we dropped, that unthinkable bomb?” My mind raced. Then it (sort of ) changed the subject. “No other country slaughters
cows as brutally as we do, and were these images to be put on full-color spreads in ‘The New York Times,’ no one could stand to look … but we’d have to look and then maybe the days of slaughtering 33 million cattle a year would be over!!!!!” The exclamation points ran off the pad. I was upset. And I remember with absolute clarity why I was so upset, aside from the Russians, the war, the bomb and all the heaving cows: During past travels, we’d driven past stockyards in Texas. I had never tried to express my horror in writing. But earlier that evening I ate red meat for the first time since I was 17. I didn’t know I was eating it. It was in the sauce. I was fine. My stomach didn’t even seem to notice. My mind, however — clearly more sensitive to the thought of beef than my stomach — rebelled, leaving a shock wave in its wake. “My life has always been about small blisses, small wins.” Half an hour ago, this sentence surfaced during the nap I tried to take. The words made their way in. They made mistakes (I don’t like the word “wins”). They made me listen. To everything. Mary Lou Sanelli’s newest collection of essays, “Every Little Thing,” has been nominated for a 2022 Washington State Book Award. Find it at Magnolia’s Bookstore and The Queen Anne Book Company, www.marylousanelli.com.
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