Every park that is an official Green Seattle Partnership site gets to order 200 plants a year. This works out really well for 10 acre North Beach Park, with only about half an acre under active restoration (although we plant throughout the park). 200+ acre Carkeek, not as well. (But Carkeek also has other programs for getting plants and trees.)

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Here are some photos of plant life from Salt Creek, in Clallam County, WA.

Oceanspray (Holodiscus discolor)

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Yesterday Julie and I went to a new park, Ft. Ward Park on Bainbridge Island. We had a pretty satisfactory day of birding, seeing pelagic and double-crested cormorants next to each other, so we could actually tell them apart. We also saw five harlequin ducks, the largest group we’ve ever seen of those. Lots of American Wigeons, which never fails to ( Read more... )

Here is a set of spring photos from North Beach Park taken over the last couple years.

Mirrored from Nature Intrudes. Please comment over there.

Here are some bud, shoot, and seedling photos from North Beach Park:

Red huckleberry (Vaccinium parviflorum) buds

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I actually took some photos the other day that I like. No, seriously, that hasn’t happened for months.

Mind you, I’m not implying they’re good or anything, just that I like them. ;>

Common Horsetail (Equisetum arvense) shoot

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First tree I’ve planted, in Carkeek Park. An Oregon Ash.


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Nothing too distinguished but here you go.

Beach Pea (Lathyrus japonicus)

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