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Washington
Ashland Lakes
Big Four Ice Caves
Boardman Lake
Columbia National Wildlife Refuge
Cowiche Canyon
Dishman Hills Natural Area
Frenchman Coulee
Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park
Hazel Wolf Wetlands Preserve 
Heather Lake
Kelcema Lake
Lake 22
Larrabee State Park
Pinnacle Lake
Middle Fork Snoqualmie River
Mima Mounds Natural Area Preserve
Mount Pilchuck
Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge
South Fork Sauk River
South Fork Stillaguamish River

Oregon
Darlingtonia State Natural Site
Heceta Head Lighthouse State Scenic Viewpoint
Multnomah Falls
Wahkeena Falls
Warm Springs Indian Reservation
Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area

California
False Klamath Cove
Joshua Tree National Park
Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park

Montana
Yellowstone National Park

South Africa
Bontebok National Park 
De Hoop Nature Reserve
Fernkloof Nature Reserve
Geelkop Private Nature Reserve
Kogelberg Nature Reserve
Marloth Nature Reserve 
Montagu Nature Garden
Vrolijkheid Nature Reserve
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This blog began in 2008 as metropolitan gardens to provide information on gardening in Seattle & places like it. Click on Gardening in Cascadia. The blog expanded to include Parks P-Patches Public Gardens in the US, Canada & Europe. Then Nature was added. (The only difference between garden & nature is intent.) Many recent posts are not about Seattle, or Cascadia. Some are Urban Landscape, mostly streetscape. Posts appear on 1st Friday & sometimes also on 3rd Friday.

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Our Land & Climate

The city of Seattle rests between 2 bodies of water: Puget Sound & Lake Washington. Puget Sound is a substantial part of the Salish Sea & a very small part of the Pacific Ocean. The Salish Sea is set apart from the Pacific by the Olympic Peninsula in the state of Washington & Vancouver Island in the province of British Columbia. The dense, wet clouds of the Pacific Ocean travel as far as the Cascade Mountains, near the Salish Sea & not very far from the ocean. East of the Cascades lies the desert of the Columbia Basin. The moist, temperate climate of Seattle extends south to northern California & north to southeastern Alaska. The Pacific Northwest Coast from San Francisco Bay to Cook Inlet shares a flora dominated by evergreen coniferous forest. The central portion, west of the Cascade Mountains, is called Cascadia. The climate is cool & wet from fall to spring, warm & dry in summer. The Olympic Mountains block Seattle from much of the Pacific rainfall. Seattle is drier than the Atlantic coast of North America & northern Europe, cooler in summer & warmer in winter. It lies near the latitude of Paris & Quebec City.

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Popular Posts

  • How to Design a Mixed Border
  • Shrubs for Shade
  • Dry Shade
  • Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
  • The Brian O Mulligan Sorbus Collection
  • Seattle Cherry Blossoms
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My Blog List

  • danger garden
    A vase full of sarracenia... - Several of my sarracenia pitchers had bent and fallen over. I'm tempted to blame the squirrels, as I've seen them jump right through the plants in a frenzy...
    3 hours ago
  • Bonney Lassie
    Wednesday Vignette - From the garden of Barb Purdey. I love gardens that are full of wonderful little views like this, especially of faces peeking out from greenery. Anna at F...
    5 days ago
  • Dias com árvores
    Histórias da Lista Vermelha: Isatis platyloba - Vistos do alto de São João das Arribas, em Miranda do Douro, os barcos de cruzeiro deslizando no rio parecem brinquedos de criança, e as grandes aves de ra...
    5 days ago
  • Jardim Suspenso
    Transição - Transição para Setembro, com *Sedum, Perovskia, Echinops, Gaura, Verbascum, Nassela, Tanacetum.* * Thalictrum delavayi* * Thalictrum* 'Hewitt's Double' *...
    5 days ago
  • Green Gardening with Ann Lovejoy
    Nurturing Monarchs - If Monarchs are no longer showing up, what’s the point? Planting projects to reestablish native milkweeds can have remarkable results. This summer, several...
    1 week ago
  • thinkinGardens
    Philosophy in the Garden by Damon Young, reviewed by John Clarke - It’s that time again: thank you once more to our sponsor, Everedge (who make cool steel planters as well as edging) for another year of thinkingardens. And...
    1 week ago
  • Seattle Japanese Garden Community Blog
    Smithsonian Scientists Are Using Ginkgo Leaves to Study Climate Change—They Need Your Help - from: SMITHSONIAN.COM | Aug. 6, 2019, 10:38 a.m. BY MEILAN SOLLY The next time you venture into the great outdoors, keep an eye out for Ginkgo biloba tree...
    3 weeks ago
  • Rhone Street Gardens
    A different angle - [image: vertical corner] I was taking pics of the garden this weekend...and happened upon a view I don't often post...
    3 weeks ago
  • paradis express
    La Petite Serre - Festival des jardins de Chaumont sur Loire 2019 - Située dans l'espace du Festival International des Jardins, cette serre aux formes résolument contemporaines présente une collection de Nymphéas tropic...
    5 weeks ago
  • Noel's Garden Blog
    Dutch garden and landscape travels - Well here we are. Another slightly lonely night in the camper van. I'm trundling around The Netherlands researching a possible book on contemporary Dutch...
    5 weeks ago
  • HABLEMOS DE JARDINES
    NUEVAS CITAS SOBRE JARDINES - De nuevo recopilo aquí citas que sobre jardines que han aparecido como cabecera en Grupo de Hablemos de jardines de Facebook.
    1 month ago
  • Garden Design And Landscape Architecture Blog - Gardenvisit.com
    Tour of Persian Gardens - The Cultural Landscape Association (CLA) is a non-profit organization specialized in the area of Cultural Landscape and the only institution in Iran that f...
    6 months ago
  • The Gardener's Eye
    The Late Summer Gardens of Southern England 2019 - The Late Summer Gardens of Southern England Tour will be September 5-14. This year, I will be leading the tour in which I hope to add a North American pers...
    7 months ago
  • A Gardener in Progress
    10 years of blogging (with big time lapses...) - I was thinking the other day about this blog. I haven't posted in 4 years, but I was reminded of how many people I've met through blogging. I mostly freq...
    8 months ago
  • Alternative Eden
    Perfect Pots - Although we are keen outdoor gardeners we had often had a poor success rate with house plants, sometimes joking that rather than having green fingers we ha...
    11 months ago
  • Le Jardin d'Oscar
    Carnet (de) Rose(s) - Cette fois-ci, on y est, c'est l'effervescence au jardin avec toutes les notes de couleur qui arrivent par ci, par là grâce aux multiples rosiers ! Et dire...
    1 year ago
  • Pedras, Plantas e Companhia II
    Milho arco-iris, a minha última aventura... - Tenho andado muito ocupado com a minha quinta biológica na Algarve onde maravilhas como estas estão a ser produzidas. Este milho antigo tem como caracte...
    2 years ago
  • grounded design: landscape + culture
    Last Reminder to Move Your Subscription to New Site - Grounded Design has moved to a new and improved site. If you would like to continue to subscribe to this content, the new site will send a condensed, once-...
    2 years ago
  • jardins cosmopolites
    Lamiaceae en beauté - Salvia involucrata 'Bethellii' et Salvia leucantha 'Purple Velvet', ce matin à l'Atelier, dorées par la lumière douce d'un été indien qui se prolonge à ...
    2 years ago
  • Plant Gallery - Encyklopedia Roślin
    Allium Giganteum Czosnek olbrzymi, zdjęcia na tapetę 4K, HD - Pochodzenie : Azja. Wyjątkowo dekoracyjna odmiana czosnku ozdobnego o dużych, kulistych kwiatostanach fioletowej barwy. Wymagania : gleba przepuszczalna, pi...
    3 years ago
  • Beacon Hill Blog
    Water service interruption near 20th and Hanford - Seattle Public Utilities tells us: Drinking water service will be shut off to about 100 residential customers in the vicinity of 20th Avenue South and Sout...
    3 years ago
  • Ron's View
    Two Roses - After taking first birthday photos of Ruby and Charlee four days ago (one of which tops the post I wrote earlier tonight), I realized I had been oblivious ...
    5 years ago
  • A Year of Seattle Parks
    #400: Terminal 102 Park - Location: West Seattle Address: 1001 Klickitat Way S.W. Acreage: 1.2 I love the location of this Port of Seattle park between West Seatt...
    5 years ago

Sunset Western Garden Book

Sunset Western Garden Book
Highly Recommended for Western United States Gardeners

Low Maintenance

Low Maintenance
Sunset Low-Maintenance Gardening

Botanical Latin

Botanical Latin
Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners

Trees and Shrubs

Trees and Shrubs
The Hillier Gardeners Guide to Trees & Shrubs

Shrubs

Shrubs
The Random House Book of Shrubs

North American Natives

North American Natives
Native Trees, Shrubs & Vines

Ceanothus

Ceanothus
Ceanothus

Hebes

Hebes
A Guide to Species, Hybrids and Allied Genera

Viburnums

Viburnums
Viburnums: Flowering Shrubs for Every Season

Northwest Native Plants

Northwest Native Plants
Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast

Northwest Native Wildflowers

Northwest Native Wildflowers
Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest

Northwest Native Insects

Northwest Native Insects
Insects of the Pacific Northwest

Perennials

Perennials
The Random House Book of Perennials Volume 1: Early Perennials

Perennials

Perennials
The Random House Book of Perennials Volume 2: Late Perennials

Bulbs

Bulbs
The Random House Book of Bulbs

North American Native Bulbs

North American Native Bulbs
Bulbs of North America

Narcissus

Narcissus
Daffodils for North American Gardens

Tulips

Tulips
Tulipa: A Photographer's Botanical

Euphorbias

Euphorbias
Euphorbias: A Gardeners' Guide

Ferns

Ferns
Ferns for American Gardens

Grasses

Grasses
The Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses

Lewisias

Lewisias
Lewisias

Penstemons

Penstemons
Penstemons

Peonies

Peonies
The Genus Paeonia

Trilliums

Trilliums
Trilliums

Catalogs

Use the catalogs listed below to order uncommon & hard-to-find plants appropriate for the Pacific Northwest. Click on the image of the catalog to be linked to the website.

Vegetable Seeds

Vegetable Seeds
Territorial Seed Company

Annuals & Perennials

Annuals & Perennials
Annie's Annuals & Perennials

Perennials

Perennials
Roots & Rhizomes

Lilies

Lilies
The Lily Garden

Bulbs

Bulbs
John Scheepers, Inc.

Heirloom Bulbs

Heirloom Bulbs
Old House Gardens

Perennials & Tree Peonies

Perennials & Tree Peonies
van Bourgondien

Trees, Shrubs & Perennials

Trees, Shrubs & Perennials
Forest Farm

Trees, Shrubs & Perennials

Trees, Shrubs & Perennials
Wayside Gardens

Trees & Shrubs

Trees & Shrubs
Gossler Farms Nursery

Xeric Plants

Xeric Plants
High Country Gardens

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