Here’s a before and after of my kitchen garden that was started as indoor starts, winter-sown seeds, or cuttings. The pots have now been moved and the raised bed is vegetables. The surrounding borders are a mix of common and native berry plants. It’s only a few months difference in the photo (fall -> early spring) and it’s much fuller already this summer.
I guess the original post asked for pictures of plants and I just posted my yard (which tbf has a lot of plants) so here’s a picture of a madrone I adopted. They’re my favorite tree but in serious decline in my area, so I propagate them and have started a colony of them on my property.
That’s awesome! They grow like crazy where we live. My childhood home had one, I always loved playing with it’s dried leaves and peely bark when I was little. It’s wood is such a beautiful white too.
We had a lot where I grew up but the area I live in now has been owned by logging and paper companies for 100 years so it’s mostly been wiped out. The only remaining ones I see are beaten up along roadways (rare) or hanging off of cliffs.
Thank you! I have thimbleberry, service berry, and evergreen huckleberry so far, and I added some highbush cranberry to the front yard because it has such stunning foliage.
Here’s a before and after of my kitchen garden that was started as indoor starts, winter-sown seeds, or cuttings. The pots have now been moved and the raised bed is vegetables. The surrounding borders are a mix of common and native berry plants. It’s only a few months difference in the photo (fall -> early spring) and it’s much fuller already this summer.
I guess the original post asked for pictures of plants and I just posted my yard (which tbf has a lot of plants) so here’s a picture of a madrone I adopted. They’re my favorite tree but in serious decline in my area, so I propagate them and have started a colony of them on my property.
That’s awesome! They grow like crazy where we live. My childhood home had one, I always loved playing with it’s dried leaves and peely bark when I was little. It’s wood is such a beautiful white too.
We had a lot where I grew up but the area I live in now has been owned by logging and paper companies for 100 years so it’s mostly been wiped out. The only remaining ones I see are beaten up along roadways (rare) or hanging off of cliffs.
Is this is the pacific nothwest?
Yes, of course haha
That looks awesome! What native berry plants do you have? :)
Thank you! I have thimbleberry, service berry, and evergreen huckleberry so far, and I added some highbush cranberry to the front yard because it has such stunning foliage.
Service berry sounds cute! We have thimbleberries here, I love their soft leaves brushing past me on hikes :)