Monday, May 12, 2025


Forbs:

Nodding Onion / Allium cernuum 


Pearly Everlasting / Anaphalis margaritacea 


Philadelphia Fleabane / Erigeron philadelphicus 


Wooly Sunflower / Eriophyllum lanatum


Brown Eyed Susan / Gaillardia aristata


Round-Leaved Alumroot / Heuchera cylindrica 


Golden Aster / Heterotheca villosa


Scarlet Gilia / Ipomopsis aggregata (2nd year biennial, should bloom this year!)


Wild Bergamot / Monarda fistuliosa (not for restoration)


Western Canada Goldenrod / Solidago lepida



Great Northen Aster / Canadanthus modestus 


Smooth Aster / Symphyotrichum laeve


Arrow-leaved Balsamroot / Balsamorhiza sagittata


Wild Blue Flax / Linum perenne ssp. lewisii


Yarrow / Achillea millefolium SOLD OUT


Old Man’s Whiskers / Geum triflorum


Mountain Hollyhock / Iliamna rivularis SOLD OUT


Paintbrush / Castilleja sp.



Grasses:


Bluebunch Wheatgrass / Agropyron spicatum


Idaho Fescue / Festuca idahoensis


Poverty Oatgrass / Danthonia spicata


Shrubs:


Black Hawthorn / Crataegus douglasii


Mallow Ninebark Physocarpus malvaceus





Thursday, April 10, 2025

 


Welcome to the

Garden Understories Alphabet of Native Plants


From now until the plant sales I will be sharing fun tidbits of information regarding native plants. 


Plant Sales:


Sunday May 11: Mother’s Day Market, KP Park, Salmo BC


Sunday May 18: Garden Understories Native Plant Nursery, Salmo (email gardenunderstories@gmail.com with "SALE" in subject line for address!)


      10 - 11am Native Plant Speed Dating

      11am - 3pm Plant Sale

All plants sold in 4” pots, $10 each. Cash Only.


 


 


 

 


 Wrote this eight years ago; it rings true, still.


Spring is here. I notice the brown water pooling in the bathroom sink as I wash hands after a day in the garden, and welcome the first forearm rash of the season, and I look forward to all this year brings.   


burn me

sun

                burr me

burdock

                bite into me

bugs 

land in my tangles

leaves

scratch, stick

and prick me

thorns

stain me

berries

resonate

with my senses

resin

rough up my skin

rocks

dry, and dye

my hands

soil

steal my breath

morning air

sneak into my house

duff

fall over me

rain

                and after it all

embrace my body

icy river


this is life

and I am alive