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Native plants for every area of your garden

Landscaping with native plants is hot and for good reason. These plants are adapted to our area so that means minimal work and natives generally don't need extra water once established. And they're beautiful. Granted, it's often a different, less showy beauty, but still beautiful.

Rita Moore, a native plant lover who landscaped her own Seattle home, offered a few of her favorites:

For the flower garden: fringecup, columbine, deer fern, foam flower, red huckleberry, salal, Pacific bleeding heart, sword fern
Edge of a garden bed: maidenhair fern, star-flowered false Solomon’s seal, wild ginger
Trees: mountain hemlock, Western red cedar, big leaf maple, Pacific dogwood, vine maples, Pacific crapabble
Shrubs: beaked hazelnut, red elderberry, Indian plum, red osier dogwood, snowberry, salmonberry, thimbleberry, oceanspray
Roses: Nootka, swamp, baldhip
For fall color: highbush cranberry or mooseberry
Vines: Honeysuckle vines red trumpet and California
Ground covers: low Oregon grape, salal, kinnikinnick, native blackberry, Western trillium, red columbine, Siberian miner’s lettuce, Pacific bleeding heart, yellow monkey flower, pink monkey flower, Cusick’s speedwell, camus, nodding onion, lupines, fireweed, tiger lily, penstemons, queen’s cup, Pacific iris, blue-eyed grass, goat’s beard, piggyback plant, inside-out flower, pearly everlasting, white fawn lily
Sedge: stone crop

Some resources she recommended:
Washington Native Plant Society
King County Go Native
King County Noxious Weed
Salmon Friendly Gardens
IvyOut
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