Having successfully sprouted native plants from seed using the very easy method in this podcast episode, I can now recommend a listen. Got me thinking about supporting local genetic diversity of each native plant species, not just a diversity of species.
Heather McCargo from The Wild Seed Project on Cultivating Place
Plus if you start native plants from seed you get to see their tiny baby form ❤️
This is a Nootka Rose / Rosa nutkana that sat outside in its pot all winter and popped up in March.
Sometimes it is hard to guess whether a sprout is your intended plant or a weed, but this one is recognizable even when still tiny. A little Western Red Columbine / Aquilegia formosa that sat unattended outside all winter and started slowly growing itself in February.
Yarrow started coming up in December and hasn’t stopped. It’s one of those plants that really loves life. Hopefully it will stay this happy once i transplant it into my lawn 🌱
Great Camas / Camassia lechtlinii has been making me emotional by self-seeding all over my garden after its first year of blooming, but it did come up really well in outdoor trays as well. It’s like it was meant to grow here or something.
Last baby photo for today: this is a wildflower from the prairies (not my region) that I am growing because it’s so pretty. Prairie Smoke / Geum triflorum. It was described as non-invasive here in the PNW and I would believe it– suuuuper tiny seedlings sprouted outdoors in February, but sparsely and they have been growing very slowly.
