Derby Canyon Natives

Plant Nursery - Serving Central Washington

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Retail sales are Fridays 9-5 and Saturdays 8-12, through June 5th.  Sales are by pre-order only for pickup at the nursery entrance.  Place your order by text or email during the week prior to pickup.

Archives for July 2014

Disjunct Plants, or “How did THAT get here?”

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North Central Washington has a concentration of endemic plant species, those found growing nowhere else (see blog post of July 1st, 2014).  This area also has quite a few disjunct species, small pockets of plants growing many hundreds of miles away from others of their kind.  It’s a puzzle and surprise to learn that the […]

Endemic Plants: Special Ones from the Wenatchee Mountains

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  Thompson’s clover (Trifolium thompsonii) Endemic plants are those found only in a limited geographic area.  The Wenatchee Mountains of Chelan and Kittitas Counties have the greatest concentration of endemics found in Washington as well as being one of the top areas for endemics in the US.  The map below was compiled by Joe Arnett, Rare […]