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Beautiful Native Spring and Birds Galore

Native plants around the area are lovely this year. I have been taking photos of them as they grow and bloom. Below is a photo dump of some of my favorite images from my garden and beyond.

Camas blooming in the native plant garden
Checkermallow blooming in the native plant garden
Western columbine blooming in my native plant garden. There are close to a dozen of these throughout the garden, and they are blooming beautifully this year!
Cornus sericea blooming in the native plant garden.
Fringecups–my 2025 favorites, and a native bee favorite, too.
Geum macrophyllum is starting to set seeds–this one was near Lake Ballinger.
My favorite lupine died out in my own garden, but I have seedlings ready to transplant to reestablish them. This gorgeous plant was near Lake Ballinger.
Native bumblebee on fringecup.
Another native bee on a blackberry.
Native roses are blooming at Ingraham High School, and the fragrance is fantastic. The bees get intoxicated with all the pollen!
Ninebark blooming at Ingraham High School
Osoberries forming at Ingraham High School. I will grab some of these and plant them in pots and leave most of them to hope for natural spread.
Piggyback plant flowers–so funny and intricate.
Salmonberry in my garden.
Seep monkeyflower blooming in my garden

I believe the dark-eyed juncos that were nesting in the native plant garden started their second nest/brood in my greenhouse. There is a junco nest there with attentive parents and babies that have just hatched. Here is the mother. I call her June.

This is the hanging basket that June chose for her nest.

There is a pair of black-capped chickadees nesting in our old raccoon bird box in the orchard garden. They are busy all day finding food for their brood.