This month’s featured species has been saddled with a slightly melancholy moniker, owing to the timing of its bloom: farewell-to-spring (Clarkia amoena) opens its pink, cup-shaped blossoms just as summer […]
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Between its showy, white blossoms and intoxicating scent, our featured native has certainly earned the name mock orange (Philadelphus lewisii). A tall shrub in the same family with hydrangeas, mock
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This month’s featured native is the aptly-named Oregon sunshine (Eriophyllum lanatum), a low-growing ground cover that brightens the sometimes rainy days of a Pacific northwest spring. A perennial herb in
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This month’s featured native: red flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum) Early bloomer, superbly showy, hummingbird favorite–all of these are great descriptors for red flowering currant, which is on full display in
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This month’s featured native: licorice fern (Polypodium glycyrrhiza) This month, our vegetal spotlight shines mainly on the trunks of trees, which are the chief domain of our region’s lone epiphytic
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