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Hi Pocahontas! Glad you enjoyed the photos of my FOREST GARDENING - PART I yard. After clearing out most of the salal wild plants started to pop up. Shafts of light or patches of sun seemed to encourage more of the blooming varieties but lots of pretty ground covers with less stunning little, an/or short-lived flowers came up even in the densest of shade. I'm slowly discovering the names of some of these natives but I'm finding it to be very difficult. A few of the plants that came up and I do know the names of are Trillium, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Mountain-Owl Clover, Miner's Lettuce, wild yellow violets, yellow, & white wood sorrel and bunchberry. I also discovered native bushes that had been camouflaged by the underbrush. These included lots of wild rose bushes, Hardhack Spiraea, evergreen huckleberry, flowering red currant and more. Right now I'm concentrating planting in one section of our forest. I can't wait to view your Riverdance Yard so I'll sign off for now. Janet Drake

Hi Pocahontas! Glad you enjoyed the photos of my FOREST GARDENING - PART I yard. After clearing out most of the salal wild plants started to pop up. Shafts of light or patches of sun seemed to encourage more of the blooming varieties but lots of pretty ground covers with less stunning little, an/or short-lived flowers came up even in the densest of shade. I'm slowly discovering the names of some of these natives but I'm finding it to be very difficult. A few of the plants that came up and I do know the names of are Trillium, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Mountain-Owl Clover, Miner's Lettuce, wild yellow violets, yellow, & white wood sorrel and bunchberry. I also discovered native bushes that had been camouflaged by the underbrush. These included lots of wild rose bushes, Hardhack Spiraea, evergreen huckleberry, flowering red currant and more. Right now I'm concentrating planting in one section of our forest. I can't wait to view your Riverdance Yard so I'll sign off for now. Janet Drake