Landscaping with Native Landscaping with native plants is not an Native Plants all-or-nothing decision. Your garden can be a mix of traditional petunias, lilacs or fruit Other Online Resources: trees as well as native plants lupine, bitter- WA Dept. of Natural Rsources for the Home root or vine maple. Native plants can provide www.dnr.wa.gov shade, screen and color as well as a home for WA Dept. of Ecology Landscape birds, insects and butterflies. Www.ecy.wa.gov WA Dept. of Fish & Wildlife There are other good reasons for using www.wdfw.wa.gov plants in the garden native to . Kittitas Co. Conservation District Because they grow here naturally, they are www.kccd.net adapted to our particular climate and are WA Native Society more disease and pest resistant. This means www.wnps.org after they are established in the garden for a year or two, most native plants will not need to be watered or fertilized. Low maintenance For more information native plants make it possible for a gardener visit the Master Gardener with other interests to pursue those interests Diagnostic Clinic without guilt. May through September

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N. Forster August 2016 FOR SHADY MOIST SITES FOR SUNNY MOIST SITES SUNNY & WELL DRAINED SOILS Trees Rocky Mountain Maple, Acer glabrum Trees Trees Vine Maple, Acer circinatum, Paper Birch, Betula papyrifera Ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa Red Alder, Alnus rubra, Rocky Mountain Maple, Acer glabrum Western larch, Larix occidentalis Red alder, Alnus rubra Douglas fir, Pseudotsuga menziesii Shrubs Blue Elderberry, Sambucus cerulean Western Mountain Ash, Sorbus scopulina Goat’s Beard, Aruncus dioecus Quaking Aspen, Populus tremuloides Maidenhair Fern, Adiantum Aleuticum Shrubs Lady-Fern, Athyrium Filix-femina Shrubs Serviceberry, Amelanchier alnifolia Deer Fern, Blechnum spicant Red osier dogwood, Cornus stolinifera Big sagebrush, Artemesia tridentate Golden currant, Ribes aureum Rabbitbrush, Chrysothamnus nauseosus Flowers Red Currant, Ribes sanquineum Ocean spray, Holodiscus discolor Queen’s Cup, Clintonia uniflora Douglas Spiraea, Spiraea Douglassi Mock orange, Philadelphus lewestii Red Columbine, Aquilegia formosa Thimbleberry, Rubus pariviflorus Bitterbrush, Purshia tridentate Rocky Mountain Iris, Iris missouriensis Pacific Ninebark, Physocarpus capitatus Snowberry, Symphoricarpus albus Trillium, Trillium ovatum White Bog Orchid, Platanthera dilatata Flowers Wild Bleeding heart, Dicentra formosa Prairie Lupine, Lupinus wyethii Blanket-flower, Gaillardia aristata PARTIAL SHADE & WELL DRAINED Desert Evening-Primrose, Oenothera caesptosa SOILS Yarrow, Achillea Millefolium Columbia Lewisia, Lewisia columbiana Trees Spreading Phlox, Phlox diffusa Chokecherry, Prunus virginiana Flowers Orange Globe Mallow, Sphaeralcea munroana Subalpine fir, Abies lasiocarpa Common Camas, Camassia quamash Rocky Mountain Maple, Acer glabrum Bunchberry, Cornus Canadensis Clumping Grasses Engelmann spruce, Picea engelmannii Wild Bleeding heart, Dicentra formosa Bluebunch wheatgrass, Agropyron spicatum Douglas fir, Pseudotsuga menziesii Tiger Lily, Lilium columbianum Indian rice grass, Serviceberry, Amelanchier alnifolia Shooting Star, Dodecatheon hendersonii Giant Wild Rye, Elymus cinereus

Blue-eyed Grass, Sisyrinchium idahoense Red Fescue, Festuca ruba Shrubs

Mountain Box, Pachistima myrsinites Kinnikinnick, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi EROSION CONTROL AND STREAM BANK Ocean spray, Holodiscus discolor RESTORATION Tall grape, Mahonia aquifolium Creeping Oregon Grape, Mahonia repens Douglas Fir, Pseudotsuga menziesii Mock orange, Philadelphus lewisii Red osier dogwood, Cornus stolinifera Snowberry, Symphoricarpus albus Vine Maple, Acer circinatum Black Willow, Salix nigra Flowers Pacific Willow, Salix lucida Star-Flowered Solomon’s Seal, Red Alder, Alnus rubra, Smilacina stellate Paper Birch, Betula papyrifera Sticky Garanium, Geranium visicosissinum Quaking Aspen, Populus tremuloides Woodland Penstemon, Nothochelone Red Currant, Ribes sanquineum Nemorosa