So last fall, me and my mother dug up the entirety of our front lawn. We planted a couple shrubs & small trees, but otherwise over the winter it looked pretty bleak 😅
But now finally here's the new plantings for this year! It was really important to me to plant things native to this region of the pnw, though there are a handful of things, like California lilac and western lupines, that are not technically from around here, but close enough.
June plum (with some new licorice fern) and flowering red currant (also a tiny slim leaf onion off to the side) ignore the neighbour's boxwoods LOL
Yarrow & kinnickinnik, and western lupines
now some of the new stuff! The first one is common camas, tufted hair grass, sea blush, and western red columbine. the second is Oregon stonecrop, licorice fern, and some mosses.
The stone and gravel is sort of a budget-friendly experiment in recreating the rocky garry oak environment that much of our area used to be. Last year we noticed that we actually have a tiny garry oak that showed up! I'll take pictures once the leaves start opening up.