Category: Native Plants of the PNW

  • Silver Falls State Park: Returning to the Wilderness

    Yesterday, for the first time in over a decade, I returned to the Oregon woods by going for an 8-mile hike in Silver Falls State Park. It was my first significant long-distance hike in a long time and it went so well that I’m excited to think I’ll be able to delve deeper into more remote…

  • A Few Blooms of Summer and the Plant Path Ahead

    As summer begins to wind down here in the Pacific Northwest (and we enter into my favorite time of year), I thought it might be a nice time to review a few beautiful blooms of summer. Many of these images are older ones—so forgive me if you’ve seen them before somewhere on here. Love-in-a-mist after…