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It’s the third day of Stormwater Awareness Week 2025, and today we’re talking water quality! Protecting water quality is a HUGE part of what we do in the stormwater department, but making sure our water stays clean is the responsibility…
It can be tempting to forget about the outdoors in the winter, especially when we have cold temperatures like we’ve had the past week! However, doing just a little work in the garden in the winter months can reap serious…
A couple of months back I was welcomed by Natural Yard Care Ambassador Shannon Radley to tour her garden and talk about some of the ways she has implemented natural yard care practices at home. Her garden is impressive not…
Earlier this month we were excited to roll out our Natural Yard Care Ambassador program and announce our first cohort of ambassadors. This week we’re excited to highlight some of our early adopters to the program – Aly and Bill…
At the end of each summer, staff from the Public Works Department put on their rubber boots and head out to local creeks to collect samples of stream bugs. The scientific term for these creatures is “benthic macroinvertebrates” (benthic =…
Lawns in western Washington don’t require irrigation to survive. If you don’t mind a brown lawn during the summer, your lawn will green up again when the rains return in the fall. Watering deeply once a month in summer helps…
When I first moved into my house, sheet mulching quickly became my new best friend in the quest to turn my front garden bed – a sea of weeds – back into something resembling a garden. Sheet mulching is a…
Petunia’s Journey – A Kirkland Stormwater System Tale With all our winter rainstorms, you can’t help but notice water running everywhere – off roofs, across lawns and sidewalks, down driveways and the edges roads. All that rain flows into stormwater…
Ah, moss… that beloved (or loathed) and ubiquitous Pacific Northwestern plant. Unlike ordinary landscape plants, mosses don’t have vascular systems to carry water and nutrients, so they must have a damp environment in which to grow. It thrives in our…
With the re-emergence of the sun, life has returned to our neighborhoods – birds are chirping, flowers are blooming and our lawns have started to grow again. Consider turning over a new leaf in your lawn care routine this spring…