Sally Anne

Dodocatheon (Primula) Hendersonii | Shooting Star

I first saw this flower at the base of a waterfall in the Sierra Nevada. It was the first wildflower I learned how to draw. When it came time to name my company, a friend recommended I choose my favorite flower to draw. Shooting Star’s are ephemeral, beautifully brief, and a sign of life’s rarest moments in time.

Shelby Woods

Oxalis oregana |Wood Sorrel 

The sweetest and most perfect lil groundcover.

Darrow Brooks

Dicentra formosa | Pacific Bleeding Heart

I just love the delicate leaves and mesmerizing flower shape. They’re great to represent happiness and love or sadness and heartbreak.

Savannah Pearce

Adiantum pedatum | Western Maidenhair Fern

Their delicacy is found in the depths of a shady corner, but has a massive effect when seen in a sea of green. I see their individual leaflets and can’t help but get overjoyed by their tiny little wavy margins. This plant makes my woodland garden dreams come true.

Analie Sevin

Ribes sanguineum – Red Flowering Currant

The gradient of red and pinks, the smells, the delicate bundles of flowers! I also love that it’s an early spring bloomer- a nice reminder of things to come after winter.

Spencer Walker

Psuedotsuga menziesii | Douglas Fir

Our carpenter’s favorite plant!

This tree is typically used as a holiday tree, but for our resident birds and insects, this tree is a reliable food source. The seeds and foliage provide sustenance for many species.

Rachel Sniffen

Cornus unalaschkensis | Bunchberry

Not to be mistaken with Cornus canadensis. The main difference is C. unalaschkensis, the WA native, has purple tipped petals.

A fun fact, the flower petals are actually the smaller interior flowers. The white petal-like leaves are actually called bracts. They are essentially the plant’s way of compensating to attract pollinators when the plant doesn’t have a showy flower.

A few of our other favorite natives:

Oemleria cerasiformis | Indian Plum/Osoberry

In the PNW, Osoberry is one of the earliest bloomers, providing a nectar source to hummingbirds, butterflies, bees, and other pollinators.

Camassia quamash | Common Camas

Once a valuable food source to our Pacific Northwest tribes, who eat the bulb of the common camas. After the flowers bloom in spring, you then wait for the flower to fade and can harvest the plant’s bulb. This is one of our favorite wildflowers for providing pollen to native insects.

Erythronium revolutum | Pink Fawn Lily

A beautiful sign of spring, the fawn lily, which can also be found in yellow (Erythronium grandiflorum) or white (Eythronium monatum). This lily will have you fawning as it spreads through your woodland garden.