A small strip of bare soil intended to become a native plant garden. The soil has a bit of water puddled in the middle after .8" of rain fell this morning.
I forgot to mention my small #nativegarden expansion happens to line up with one of my downspouts, so it will also function as a small rain garden. This wasn't specifically designed as a rain garden, but I did recognize the potential.
Can't wait until the #nativeplants fill in one day!
Cool season veggies 🥗 growing.
Natives greening up from the winter.
#gardens #veggiegarden #nativegarden
Trays of seedling under grow lights
All kinds of seeds sprouting!
Veggies, herbs, flowers 🪴🌻🥬
#gardening #nativegarden #veggiegarden
Rattlesnake master is jumping up faster than just about anything.
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After mowing the spots to be seeded ill need to scarify the ground. Im considering tying some boards with screws theough them on my boots and just stomping around 🤔 in addition to metal rake and hoe
Anyone have any suggestions to make this part more successful? #gardening #nativegarden #gardensky
Look at all that prairie smoke! I remember when I only had a few plants here.
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Hey #gardensky #gardening #nativegarden peeps, how do we feel about reusing "old" potting soil🤔 if I treat as compost and "cook" it, it should be safe to use for new plants right? I collected used plastic pots from the community to reuse in the future community nursery, and have a steadily growing
Future native garden addition circled in green. Total space for the addition is between 250 to 300 sq. ft.
Here's my plan for the #nativegarden addition. I'll be expanding one of my current gardens to wrap around my eastern redbud. Not sure when I'll have time to start removing my lawn but hopefully before the end of April. I also have a second smaller addition I'll share in the future. #nativeplants
Yard with a native plant garden.
Yard with a native plant garden.
I've been waiting all winter to clean up the native plant garden. Left everything for the birds and bugs. It was 70F today, tomorrow 40F with a low of 20F! Got to take advantage. Used my wood chipper and made a bunch of mulch for my vegetable garden. Plants are growing.
#nativegarden #garden #zone6b
Spring Queens are blooming now! =D
Grass Widows should make themselves known soon!
Dreaming of drier planting weather with moist (not drenched) soils!
#nativegarden #nativeplants #plantingweatherdance #pnw
A green shrub covered in white/yellow flowers.
This Monkeyflower in my backyard has apparently really enjoyed the rain we got a couple of weeks ago.
#californianativeplants #nativegarden 🌱
Willamette Valley Gumweed (also known as Puget Sound Gumweed) is an important long blooming pollinator plant and short lived perennial. It's flowers are also an excellent addition to oil infusions for salves; having similar properties to Calendula.
Yarrow is a wonderful and easy to grow long flowering pollinator plant. It attracts a wide variety of insects including native bees, butterflies, beetles, parasitic flies, and native parasitic wasps! It's also an excellent lawn substitute! It takes mowing and foot traffic like a champ, stays green year around without water, and spreads via rhizomes and seeds staying competitive with weeds!
Salal is a fantastic evergreen shrub with meaty, tasty edible and nutritious berries. It does grow slowly at first, but is an excellent ground cover when given a chance.
Large Leaf Avens isn't the flashiest of our native wildflowers, but it thrives in very moist and shady environments where other plants may struggle. It's an valuable long flowering food source for pollinators and is a host plant for moths and butterflies!
Here are a few more perennial native plants that produce seeds without any germination requirements!
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Red Flowering Currant blossoms preparing to open glowing in golden hour.
Naturally occurring White variation of our Native Red Flowering Currant. This beauty tends to start blooming a couple of weeks ahead of it's Red Flowering neighbor.
It feels a little early, but my flowering currants are starting to bloom here in NW Oregon!
#nativeplant #nativegarden #flowers #gardening #pnw
#earlyspring #hummingbirdgarden #plantsky
A small witch hazel branch with a couple clusters of small orange flowers starting to show. A few marcescent leaves are clinging to the branch.
First flowers of the year emerging from the witch hazel in our #nativegarden
Dad and friend are coming to give me blackberry plant babies for my yard 🥰 #nativegarden
More seeds headed outside for cold stratification! #nativegarden
Scarlet Monkeyflower is a super showy, moisture loving native perennial that is a hummingbird favorite!
Prairie Junegrass is a lovely native clumping grass that's a host plant for Skipper butterflies!
Pacific Aster is a huge draw for pollinators late in the season. Here two Skipper butterflies enjoy the nectar this aster offers.
Pearly Everlasting is a wonderful late season blooming wildflower. These flowers are excellent for bouquets and dried flower arrangements.
Here are a few more perennial native plants that produce seeds without any germination requirements!
#nativeplants #nativegarden #gardening #flowers #westcoast
#plantsky #pnw #bloomscrolling
An oriole perched on a dead swamp milkweed stem while pulling shreds of the stem off to build a nest with. Out of focus splashes of red in the foreground are eastern red columbine in bloom.
I completely forgot I took a photo of this moment! It was late spring 2020 and an oriole was in one of my native gardens collecting shreds of swamp milkweed stem for its nest.
Another reminder of how native plant gardens help wildlife!
#nativegarden #nativeplants #birds #Wisconsin
This year's #nativegarden burn is complete and the weather was perfect! I burned about 40-45% of my garden space this year, one section at a time.
If your in Seattle & planning to attend the NW Flower and Garden Fest for their last day be sure to swing by booth 2159 to check out Wildscape Muse! She has an amazing online platform to help you replace your lawn and design your native landscape!
#nativegarden #gardening #washington #dontmowgrow
Douglas Aster is a superb pollinator plant. An Oregon State University study looking at native plants and native pollinators found that Douglas Aster attracted the highest diversity of visiting bee species, as well as, the highest abundance of visiting bees compared to the other native flowers in the study.
Goldenrod is another superb pollinator plant. The lovely yellow flowers attract all manner of bees, but is particularly attractive to native wasps. Native wasps are not aggressive to people, and are powerful allies in the garden as they feed on garden pests!
Blanket Flowers is a wonderful late blooming, highly drought tolerant, inland perennial. This lovely flower often continues to bloom through the first couple of late Fall - early Winter hard frosts before finally going dormant.
Seaside Daisy is an invaluable low growing ground cover for the maritime West Coast! In it's native range it's evergreen and when happy will spread out to ~2' wide and will be covered in flowers from May- August. I've had my plants continue to produce flowers into October!
Here are some perennial native plants that have seeds without any germination requirements!
#nativeseeds #nativeplants #nativegarden #gardening #flowers
#pnw #oregon #westcoast #wildlifegardening #pollinators
Ambush bugs are one of MANY creatures I didn't even know existed until I added a #nativegarden to my yard a dozen years ago. And if I didn't know about it, that means SO MANY people still don't know about it. And they're so common.
Schools need required classes about native habitats/wildlife.
Lance-leaf Self Heal only needs a short 20-30 day stratification to germinate. This lovely plant is a wonderful groundcover and works well incorporated into a native lawn replacement. It can take mowing and light-medium foot traffic.
Coyote Bush has no germination requirements, though a little (7-10 days) cold moist stratification may improve germination rates. This is a fantastic wildlife shrub. It provides late season food for all sorts of pollinators, and song birds love it for food (insects), roosting, and nesting! It's evergreen and makes a fantastic garden specimen and hedge plant!
Sea Thrift is another adorable little ground cover requiring only 30 days of cold moist stratification. It is evergreen and is loved by tiny carpenter bees when in bloom!
While the cheery Oregon Sunshine generally requires 30-60 days of cold moist stratification, I often find it germinates on the shorter end of that range. They are evergreen and also make a lovely ground cover.
If you haven't started your native seed sowing project yet, don't despair! Many species need only a brief period of moist stratification, and yet others don't require any special treatments! Here are some great examples!
#nativeplants #nativegarden #alwaysbesowing #gardening #flowers #pnw #seeds
A photo of a small section of native plant garden habitat. In this image you can see royal catchfly, black-eyed susans, hoary vervain, butterflyweed, gray-headed coneflower, and native grasses.
I don't think I ever shared this photo from my #nativegarden from last summer.
#nativeplants #garden #gardening #habitat #savethepollinators #Wisconsin
No V-day flower show is complete without the lovely Western Bleeding Heart!
Nodding Onions are such lovely Spring Wildflowers! They are so easy to start from seed, wildlife tends to avoid them, and their an edible true onion!
Meadow Checkermallow is a very special hollyhock like wildflower endemic to the Willamette Valley. Not only is it gorgeous and tough, it's also a native vegetable! The leaves are highly nutritious and can be used like spinach in salads or soups etc.
Salal is such a lovely evergreen shrub and ground cover. It has visual interest year around, though it is most showy when in bloom or loaded with berries.
Here's a little native flower show for your Valentine's Day pleasure!
#nativeplants #nativegarden #flowers #garden #pnw
#bloomscrolling #sharingcheer
It's fun looking through my old native garden photos and seeing photos I forgot I took. Here are several butterfly species on meadow blazing star.
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