My favorite sight in the garden this week was a bushtit landing on the large-leaved avens that I planted in the memory garden amid all the non-native ornamental plants. I did not get a great photo but I snapped a quick one just to prove it happened. Sometimes nature seems unbelievable, especially in the city.
There are many other wonderful sights around the native garden, as well, with the lupines putting on an amazing show the native pollinators cannot ignore.
Some non-flowering natives are fun to see around our garden beds. These include the big leaf maple trees that I prune back heavily in the driveway bed and several bitter cherries that get the same treatment.
I have noticed two populations of Lonicera ciliosa around the neighborhood lately. The vines near Ingraham High School are twenty or more feet up in the trees!
Other native flowers I noticed around the neighborhood include lots of lovely bramble flowers from the low-growing Rubus ursinus.
