I have been wanting to plant more native plants in my yard.
I should say I have been actively working on planting more native plants in my yard. (But not this bed. This bed still has a bazillion bulbs but I dug a lot during this project.)
I cleared this bed and then never dealt with finding plants. I have always wanted to plant huckleberries but I thought they wouldn’t work here. We were on a walk and there is someone on my block has 2 huckleberries and they were loaded. (Why wasn’t she picking them?!?!?!)
I had an appointment that was arguably on the way to the nursery so I drove over and wandered around in the rain. (Had the place to myself!)
I grabbed the three huckleberries they had.
On my way out I saw this: Arctic Fire!
It’s a something something dogwood with red sticks in the winter! Pretty white flowers in spring, green leaves during the year that turn during the fall. So pretty! Doesn’t it look like it’s always belonged in my yard?
I planted all these in the rain. My clothes, all my tools, my buckets: everything is muddy. I put it in the shop and I still haven’t dealt with it.
It’s been awhile since I’ve done a work in progress counter. I’m aiming for 15k in the month of November. This is a re-envisioned project of forever. This goal is for a first draft. My chatgpt helped me and it doesn’t look quite right but I don’t want to get derailed trying to fix it right now.
