Native Plants for Sunny location
Nodding onion (Allium cernuum) blooms in June – nodding umbels of small, pink flowers.
Goes well with May-blooming common camas (Camassia quamash)
Drought tolerant perennial – Broad-leaved stonecrop (Sedum spathulifolium)
Small flower alumroot (Heuchera micrantha var. diversifolia), excellent drought tolerant saxifrage does well in dry rockery walls, grows easily in containers.
Orange honeysuckle (Lonicera ciliosa) up a trellis – deciduous vine that blooms in May attracts hummingbirds and has shiny red berries for fall interest.
NATIVE PLANTS FOR ROCK GARDEN (OR OUTSIDE THE FENCE AREA BY PARKING LOT).
FULL SUN, DRY (sometimes hard to find and hard to start):
broad-leaved stonecrop (Sedum spathulfolium)
Oregon stonecrop (Sedum oreganum)
Woolly sunflower (Eriophyllum lanatum)
Kinnikinnick (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)
Columbia lewisia (Lewisia columbiana)
Spreading phlox (Phlox diffusa)
Parsley fern or rock brake (Cryptogramma acrostichoides)
Penstemons (good for new rock gardeners)
Cardwell’s penstemon (Penstemon cardwellii)
Davidson’s penstemon (Penstemon davidsonii)
Rock penstemon (Penstemon rupicola)
Shrubby penstemon (Penstemon fruticocus)
Common harebell (Campunala rotundifolia)
PLANTS FOR A HEDGEROW (bigger plants)
Mock orange (Philadelphus lewisii) Deciduous Sun to Semi-shade (to 15′)
Red flowering current (Ribes sanguineum) Deciduous Sun to semi-shade (3-10′)
Saskatoon (Amelanchier alnifolia)Deciduous Sun (to 15′)
Snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus) Deciduous Sun (to 6′)
Thimbleberry (Rubs parviflorus) Deciduous Sun (3-6′)
(requires little pruning, just dead, unruly branches or dieback). Base offers an opportunity for developing a ground cover of native plants
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
ATTRACTING BENEFICIALS
Bumblebees generally prefer blue, purple and yellow flowers (members of the aster family, Asteraceae), mustard family (brassicaceae) and mint family
(Lamiaceae) – Native plants that attract bumblebees:
alliums (Allium spp.)
brodiaea (Brodiaea spp.)
lupines
Butterflies
white fawn lilies (Erthyronium oregonum)
kinnikinnick (Arctostaphylos uvaursi)
pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea)
goat’s beard (Arunucus dioicus)
Queen Anne’s lace (Daucus carota)
food for butterfly larvae
broad-leaved stonecrop
dog woods (Cornus spp.)
lupines
oceanspray
Oregon grape
roses
shooting stars
snowberry
stonecrop
websites:
Native Plant Society of BC
E-Flora: Electronic Atlas of Plants in BC
Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary has native plant sales.