PLANTAMNESTY
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Mission Statement
PlantAmnesty’s mission is to provide education, resources, and advocacy to prevent mal-pruning and preserve urban greenspace.
About This Cause
PlantAmnesty began in 1987 with a campaign to end tree topping. We have since expanded to address the many ways the urban forest is inadvertently lost due to neglect and mismanagement by individuals, green professionals, and by cities themselves. Trees are the perfect antidote for many problems that accompany urbanization. We work to ensure better care of the urban ecology, specifically our trees and plants. Our goals are 1) to increase public awareness of common problems, 2) provide a range of solutions to common pruning and other plant care problems, and 3) engender respect for plants, their contribution to the natural and built environments, and their importance in fighting climate change. Toward these goals, PlantAmnesty uses traditional approaches and social media to raise awareness. We provide classes, lectures, community tutorials, workshops, a referral service, volunteer pruning, and landscape care. We distribute how-to information via print, our website, our YouTube channel, and social media. We answer calls and emails from the public, co-sponsor educational (and fun!) events, and staff engagement booths at fairs, plant sales, and other gatherings. During the 2020 pandemic, many of PA's classes and meetings went online. At this time PA will continue online classes through 2023 and possibly beyond since the online classes are popular and have reached a larger audience, (including international students) engaging and educating the public, landscape professionals and HOA's about the effects of the damaging, unsustainable, expensive, and tragically widespread practice of shearing all shrubs. We demonstrate how sheared landscapes can be converted into healthier, more natural-looking, lower maintenance properties. We are completing the final editing of our Landscape Conversion video and advertise its availability on our YouTube channel through mass mailings and digital messaging including an engaging public service announcement. Our Meetings of Like Minds membership/general public get togethers have returned to in-person events featuring local speakers and topics of interest to the membership. We will continue our outreach to Spanish-speaking landscape workers. We will do so by translating pruning materials into Spanish. This includes the Landscape Conversion, pruning videos on our YouTube channel, and our digital plant identification flash cards. PA has returned to in-person hands-on pruning workshops after several years hiatus. They fill quickly and are very popular with students and home-owners alike. Check the PA website for upcoming workshops. Meanwhile, the Cass Turnbull Garden, begun after her sudden passing in 2017, on a part of the Katherine Bullitt estate on Capitol Hill, continues to evolve. With the passing of Katherine Bullitt, the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department is now involved with the the future of the garden and talks continue as to its final incarnation. The Cass Turnbull Garden beautifully demonstrates PlantAmnesty's commitment to preserve urban greenspace. PA is also a sponsor of Fund the Last 6000, a grassroots program to identify and preserve some of the most singular trees in the Seattle area. The group works with local government and neighbors to reduce the impact of urban development on the urban forest.