r/SpokaneGardeners

The plant clinic has plenty of free seeds. Here is a sample (photo taken today).

Now to wait 10 years for it to grow. Foundation is Native Intermountain West Songbird Pre-Planned Garden combined with their cold hardy saliva collection. Then the SCCD tree sale. Groundcovers from Tall Grass (waggon wheel penst), Fred Meyer (sedum poppers), NWSP (pineleaf penstemon), and Vickie's (the dark sedum whose name eludes me atm.) Also Firecracker penstemon inspired by the landscape design posting (from Floralia?)

The process was ordering the collection back in Jan. Invested in a $100 electric rototiller that did an amazing job churning the gravel, sand, woodchips and occasional rock. Designed with Garden Planner (was $10 from Amazon but no longer available.)

I'm propagating a bunch of fig, grape, lilac, gooseberry, currant, basils, black cap raspberry, honeysuckle (native and non native), mock orange, bridal veil, prairie sage (local native variety), Russian sage, lavender, mulberry, and some cooking herbs.

i might do a sale later in summer with these and with fall crop starts like lettuces, brassicas, and such. I'll try to do it when it's time to plant in the baby trees and the starts are big enough to take the cold fall weather.

1. what would you like to see or be interested in getting a hold of throughout summer into fall?

2. what are you always looking for and not finding?

3. what would you like to pick up as starts?

4. what perennials can you never find for fall plantings?

it'll be affordable. we are all broke! I'm just covering costs. (yes I've got a nursery/plant sales license for this year and next, i got it together finally)

every year i kill them.

I've tried indoors, outdoors, protected outdoors. they die mid winter no matter what i do. i know they CAN grow here and people even keep rosemary as a houseplant kind of.

this year a friend sent me 4 little rooted babies in 4 inch pots. HELP ME NOT KILL THEM THIS TIME. one already looks ragged after only a few days in my place.

HELP.

It’s a baby praying mantis. I find random egg sacks attached to anything from trees to yard decorations! lol.

Name that native! Tree tax at the end. All within about an half an acre. Contest winner can collect seeds? What is a good prize? I also have no idea how to ID grasses and would love a good book/site.

The Spokanescape plant list includes creeping veronica, and I have been looking for seeds to plant since my project got approved last summer. I’ve been looking for either veronica repens or veronica umbrosa. Places like Outsidepride were sold out of them last year and don’t appear to sell them anymore. Does anyone have suggestions of where else I might find some? I have backup plants like creeping thyme but I figured I’d ask for help before giving up. Thanks!

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