Ann Loves Plants

Category: Native Plants of the PNW

  • Busy Native Bee with Pollen Buckets on a Native Shrub

    Years ago an old friend of mine visited our garden and she remarked that we had a lot of native bees at work. I was happy to hear this, but I simply didn’t see it, at least not in the same way she did. My mind was somewhere else at the time and I was…

  • Plant Hunting Along the Beaches of the Southern Oregon Coast

    Lovely rustic yurt courtesy of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, Harris Beach State Park, near Brookings, Oregon. (These begin at $39 per night.) Waking up in my yurt to the sound of the rain tap tap tapping was not an ideal way to spend my spring break, but I am an Oregonian so I was…