The growth in the native plant garden over the last few weeks has been astounding! Every day brings new leaves, new suckers, and new flowers.
Berberis repens blooming for the first time.Berberis repens flowers.Trillium ovatumI wish the trilliums would multiply faster!Here is a tiny trillium–it is getting weaker over time, but still strong enough to bloom.Red-flowered currants (pink clone)–lots of flowers this year despite me taking cuttings last summer.Close-up of flowers.Salmon berry flowers. My plant has several flowers this year–not a lot, but maybe enough to get a berry or two.Here is a salmon berry sucker, the first one from my original plant.After it died back early last year, I was worried the fireweed would not come back, but here it is looking strong!Berberis aquifolium blooming.Close-up of the flowers.The native roses still have some hips.
My brother and I attended a National Geographic Live presentation this week and the speaker, Alizé Carrère, talked about human adaptation around climate change. My favorite thing that she said is that any step a person takes to fight climate change is worthwhile. She quoted Vaclav Havel, who said: “Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.” My little native garden is not much, but I am certain that it makes sense!
