Category: Native Plants of the PNW
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Polystichum munitum (Western Sword Fern): an Early Plant Crush
The first plants I loved, were native plants. I say this without some of you knowing, I’ve never lived anywhere except in the Pacific Northwest in the Portland area. I love where I grew up and early on, many of my closest friends were the the ducks and crawdads that lived in the creek that…
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Wordless Wednesday: Regrowing Backbone
Dianthus superbus. Cow Parsnip, Heracleum maximum. Cow Parsnip, Heracleum maximum, as “whisk”. Stylophorum lasiocarpum. Campanula punctata. The willow arbor gets a serious makeover. Where’s the fire? Smoke tree, Cotinus, with Lychnis coronaria. Centaurea montana. Yucca filamentosa. Still working on the backbone of the garden.
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