
How to Plant a Meadow
Create a new wild in the city, in the country, in your own front yard
Balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sp.) and mule’s ears (Wyethia sp.) are the western state equivalents to the glorious Silphiums of Midwestern tallgrass pra...
View full detailsA fascinating native member of the carrot family. Blooming at roughly the same time as camas, this unusual-looking plant creates a dazzling color c...
View full detailsFamed for ancient ethnobotanical traditions, beargrass is not a grass at all, but rather a member of the corn-lily family. It’s also an icon of wes...
View full detailsA low-growing annual for creating colorful swales. Bicolor lupine is a tiny plant, often staying less than 6-inches tall, and yet this little annua...
View full detailsGlorious and showy! Big leaf lupine is one of the tallest and most ornamental native lupine species in the west. This cheerful plant forms nice col...
View full detailsRemarkably colorful and drought-adapted, blanketflower is a dryland native perennial, occurring across the inland west from eastern British Columbi...
View full detailsA delicate, long-lived, wildflower that you can divide for years to come! Not a grass at all, this small iris relative embodies the art and mystery...
View full detailsAn excellent utilitarian grass for erosion control, wildlife, and agroforestry. With seedheads that can reach 4 to 5 feet in height, blue wild rye ...
View full detailsSpectacularly showy little flowers atop unassuming foliage. Another showy annual for seasonally wet spots that dry out in the summer. Blue-eyed Mar...
View full detailsThis is not a Northwestern Native, but rather is a plant of the central and southern plains and the desert southwest (roughly Nebraska to Californi...
View full detailsThe Classic Flower of Late Summer Meadows Few perennials are as long-lived or widely adaptable as Canada goldenrod. From damp, sunny roadside ditch...
View full detailsCanada milkvetch is a robust perennial legume that’s also a bumble bee magnet once it starts flowering. Grouped plantings in particular typically p...
View full detailsOne of the best grass-substitutes for combining with wildflower plantings. While most sedges have specific associations with wetlands or wet enviro...
View full detailsAlso known as chocolate lily or rice root, this is a sublime, but challenging to grow plant of Northwestern prairies, oak savannahs, and shore pine...
View full detailsThis is a one of those rare gems of forest clearings and open meadows that was likely much more common in the past. Along with habitat loss, this p...
View full detailsShipping in November - December 2023 Common camas is arguably the most important historic native food plant in the Northwest, and we’ve sold the se...
View full detailsThe most important historical native food plant in the Northwest Native across the Pacific Northwest and Northern California, the stunning violet...
View full detailsNamed for the obvious similarity of the flowerhead to the head of a violin, this occasionally common annual plant is one of our few native wildflow...
View full detailsMembers of this genus are some of the most well-known North American wild food plants. And common yampah is one of the most widespread, adaptable, ...
View full detailsA Brilliantly Colorful Hummingbird Plant! One of the first great discoveries when we acquired our farm was finding a huge population of this beaut...
View full detailsOne of our best pollinator plants! At up to 7 feet in height with massive white umbels and large leaves over a foot in width, this is not your aver...
View full detailsAs the common name makes clear, this is a rush-like plant that "creeps" or spreads by underground rhizomes. The scientific name is a bit more elega...
View full detailsWith spade or diamond-shaped bright pink petals, and anthers bearing blue-grey pollen, this nice annual is striking to look at. Even better, it’s t...
View full detailsA milkweed relative, dogbane hemp is possibly the pre-eminent wild fiber plant of North America, producing tough fibrous stems that were rolled and...
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We’ve gotten so many requests over the years for an easy-to-grow seed mix that defies deer, that we finally had to dig in and create one. For a fu...
View full detailsAttract bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and beneficial insects with this dramatic wildflower show. The combination of native annuals and perennial...
View full detailsThis is a mix for the expansive and splendid lands from the eastern slope of the Cascades to the western fringes of the Great Plains – from inland ...
View full detailsA nearly native turf mix for people and pollinators. Responding to occasional requests for a low-growing meadow mix that can be used for low-traff...
View full detailsCover large sites economically, support pollinators and wildlife, even suitable for grazing! With our most diverse mix of native grasses ever, as w...
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As the end of the year closes in, we would like to thank you – our customer-friends – for your support. The work you do to bring interesting masterpieces and fragments of nature to our shared surroundings makes the world...
October is the month of foggy mornings. Of vast dew-covered spider webs tangled in the hedgerows. It’s the month of field cutting. Of meadow management. There’s a common assumption that you can plant a meadow and then just ignore things....