Stop planting gardens. Start building nurseries. 🦋
Most pollinator advice ends in July. But real sanctuary means supporting life through ALL stages, egg to adult.
Our new blog on the 'Cradle to Grave' strategy shows how.
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#PollinatorSupport #PNWNatives #GardenWisdom #Dontmowgrow
Your yard is the stadium. Fill it with "visitor" species and your ecosystem loses. The winning play? Native keystones like Oaks & Willows feed 75% of local wildlife. Build your home field advantage. 🏈🌿
#PNWNatives #GardenWisdom #HomeFieldAdvantage #Dontmowgrow
Weekend homework: Do nothing. Just observe. 🔍
Take a mapping walk, where's the soil soggy? Where are bulbs emerging? Which spots stay coldest? These details become your design data.
Spring planting can wait. Right now, your land is teaching.
#SlowGardening #PNWNatives #Dontmowgrow
flowers of Wapito (Sagittaria cuneata, aka arrowroot) has 3 white petals and a yellowish center. Leaves are arrow-shaped and on long stems. Plant is growing in water.
Wapito blooming in my small stock tank converted to native pond. This tank is fed from a downspout off my roof. The pond has hosted 2 years of pacific chorus frogs as well, so I'm considering it a success. Skamania County, Washington
#pnwgardening #pnwnatives 🌱
Gorgeous! I'm always looking for natives I can grow in a pot. This is a great idea! #PNWNatives
A furrow bee collecting pollen from the small yellow flowers of a native cress.
A furrow bee enjoys some curve-pod yellowcress (Rorippa curvisiliqua) in our yard. This thing has been a small-bee magnet on sunny days.
#nativebees
#pnwnatives
Both are Oregon iris. The dark purple is growing in my front yard, under a tree and the pale one is growing in my backyard, under a tree. Both bloomed today. Makes me curious to know about their soil differences. #pnwnatives #oregoniris
The Great Camas (camassia leichtlinii) starting to bloom at Bush’s Pasture Park, Salem, Oregon. They are so beautiful blooming under the ancient oak trees.
#PNWNatives #Oregon 🌱
When I bought my kinnikinnik last year a bystander mused “You’ll get old waiting for that to grow.” He wasn’t wrong…but what it lacks in new growth it makes up for in cute little flowers. #pnwnatives #gardening
Two clumps of lungwort plants with silvery splotches on their leaves. The plant in the foreground has pale blue flowers and the plant behind has flowers that open violet and turn cobalt blue. White bell shaped flowers of the summer snowflakes dangle above the lungwort on long green stems. And a soft blanket of green Pacific Waterleaf foliage surrounds the plants.
A couple lungworts and a clump of 'Gravetye Giant' summer snowflakes are happily snuggled in to a shady spot otherwise dominated by the native Pacific Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum tenuipes) that grows throughout the woods here. 🌱 #zone8b #PNWNatives
