Silk tassel bush (Garrya elliptica) blooming in the park. Although it doesn't grow natively quite this far north, it thrives in our climate.
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Did I mention it's been foggy the last two days? And it's raining. Here are dewberry (Rubus ursinus) canes trained to grow overhead so I can stare at leaf veination against a white sky.
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Browsing while cruising
I do check out the evergreen huckleberries (Vaccinium ovatum), even in winter. They may be tiny and a bit sour, but they are tasty. They do make nice shrubbery along the sidewalk.
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I think silk tassel bush (Garrya elliptica) is hard to photograph because at least this year the catkins are so plentiful they look more like grayish strings tossed on the shrubs. However, a close up of the male plant's catkins shows a profusion of anthers entangled with each other on a long chain of gray to pink flowers.
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Spring is creeping up on us. First I spotted the beginnings of osoberry flower buds then I spotted one that actually started to bloom in its tiny microclimate (Species: Oemleria cerasiformis. Probably male plant.)
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The native broadleaf stonecrop (Sedum spathulifolium) makes colorful masses among the rocks in local gardens as well as on the rocky coast of the PNW
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White Dicentra formosa: These are usually lavender to pink. This patch reliably comes up mostly white. Cowen Park, Seattle, Washington, USA
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Pacific blackberry, California blackberry, trailing blackberry, trailing Pacific blackberry, Rubus ursinus or dewberry! You get to choose. (Oh, and the devil's shoelaces, although many other plants that like to trip unwary hikers are called this). This species has male and female plants, so find a female plant if you want some of its wonderfully tasty berries. I know where a couple are, and I won't share their location, because I have to beat the birds to those berries. Ravenna Park, Seattle, Washington, USA
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