Attracting MORE Insects with Native Plants – Part 1: Native Bees
[Winter is hanging around still; after an almost snowless and warm December and January we now have 12” on the ground in Peshastin.…
Category: Native flora
The nursery is expanding… and closing until next year
The fall colors have been outstanding this year, both in the forest and in the nursery; pictured above are one-year seedlings with Garry…
Goodbye, wild ginger, so long thyme-leaved buckwheat
It’s not quite October and already I’ve had to decide what we will grow for next year. Seed sowing is underway and began…
Late summer flowers for native pollinators
Parnassian butterfly on coyote mint (Monardella odoratissimma), late August at 4500′ Most of our native wildflowers of the lower elevations of Central Washington are at…
Head for the hills… for the wildflowers
Eriogonum ovalifolium near Windy Pass By late June the wildflowers at the lower elevations in Central Washington are past their peak, but at higher…