Endemic Plants: Special Ones from the Wenatchee Mountains
Thompson’s clover (Trifolium thompsonii) Endemic plants are those found only in a limited geographic area. The Wenatchee Mountains of Chelan and Kittitas Counties…
Category: Restoration
Willows galore
At Derby Canyon Natives I grow close to 140 species of plants but the bulk of my revenue comes from about 12 species that we…
Recovering from wildland fire
A smoky time in the nursery; normally you’d see hills and mountains in the background of the above photo. The dramatic lightning storm…
Seed collecting time
I enjoy the cyclical nature of nursery work: sowing seeds, germination time, thinning, transplanting, watering… even weeding! All of these plants begin with…
My favorite fungi – mycorrhizae
When I started growing native plants I was unaware of how important a certain class of soil fungi were to the growth and…