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Oregon grape (Mahonia or Berberis aquifolium) ripening in Ravenna Park
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Long clusters of Oregon grape berries ripen amid the leaves. The berries look like grapes along a stem, and are at various stages of ripening, from very green to dusty blue-purple. There are three stems of berries radiating out from the center right. The glossy green leaves surround the berries, most radiating from the same plant, each compound leaf with a set of up to 13 spiny and shiny leaflets. In this photo the berries and leaves are in a dappled sunlight and are growing in a woodsy understory.

There’s a quiet part of Capitol Hill full of historic homes, leafy streets, and walkable access to parks and cafés—but few people know its name.

Stevens is a true Seattle neighborhood with its own history and character—often overlooked, always livable.

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A propos of nothing, Seward Park by Lake Washington on a lovely day
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n afternoon photo over a blue Lake Washington from Seward Park. The shore is grassy with shade from trees . My sister is by the shore looking out. You can see a Seattle suburb across the way. The sky is summer blue with fluffy clouds.

Oregon sunshine (Eriophyllum lanatum), one of the woolly sunflowers, grows in cheerful clumps amid the park restoration grasses
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #MapleLeafPark #SeattleParkRestorations #BloomScrolling #SeattleParks

The flowers of Oregon sunshine look like miniature pure gold sunflowers about 2 inches (5 cm) wid. The single row of ray flowers encircle the disk flowers. The leaves are either simple or pinnately compound and are often blue green and covered with woolly hairs as are the stems and sepals. In this photo the clump is in the middle of medium height mixed grasses in Maple Leaf Par.

Another native plant spotted in Seattle park restoration areas: the Pacific waterleaf (Hydrophyllum tenuipes) has cool cucumber-ish colors and likes the edges of woodsy spots.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #MapleLeafPark #SeattleParkRestorations #BloomScrolling #SeattleParks

These 5 petalled waterleaf flowers growing in the park restoration are a greenish white. The numerous lilac colored stamens with yellow anthers, the hairy stems and sepals, all make the flowering cluster look like a fuzzy ball on top of its upright green stem. The alternate compound leaves are fuzzy as well,.

Osoberries (Oemleria cerasiformis) in varying stages of ripeness. They turn dark purple when fully ripe. They are edible but don't have much flesh on the pit. This year they are abundant in the Seattle area, and I may try a ripe one for testing purposes. In the years since I moved here, they've suffered from drought and heat waves, where the leaves turned yellow in June and the fruit dropped off or was eaten by the birds before fully ripe.
#Photography #SeattleSpring #SeattleParks #SeattleOlmstedParks #NativePlantsOfThePNW #NativePlants #RavennaParkSeattle

A branch of an osoberry shrub is has several stems of osoberries hanging like cherries below the green oval leaves. Their color varies from greenish yellow to apricot yellow to peach pink. They look like miniature apricots at the end of the red stems, which seem even brighter red when the berries turn purple.

A visit to the P-Patch: 1. We painted the wheelbarrows ugly pink and branded them because theft! Too bad that a bad apple can spoil the community trust. 2. Potatoes! Not yet, but soon enough, maybe to eat baby potatoes with fresh peas 3. Someone made a pretty little nook amid the vegetable patches 4. This is a house across the street from the main entrance: the rhodies are still blooming! There are other flowers getting ready to bloom as the rhodies fade.
#SeattleSpring #SeattleWashington #PicardoFarmPPatch #SeattleParks #Photography

Two wheelbarrows, painted bright pink with "Picardo P-Patch* stenciled on the side, are leaned against a wooden garden box. The Picardo Gardeners voted to paint all the wheelbarrows we finagled after our other ones were stolen. Next time, the thieves will have to repaint them if they want to escape detection!

Potato plants are blooming with white flowers. The petals are curved back and the anthers are fused into a golden tube, with the pistil barely showing. The leaves are compound, green, and abundant. When the blooms fade, the lucky gardener will be able to enjoy baby potatoes!

A gardener turned a corner of their patch into a pretty little flower bed. At the back tall lilac iris tower over the mix of brunnera and dead nettle, with a border of ferns. Scattered throughout there are pansies, johnny-jump-ups and forget-me-nots. The border is contained by a wall of upside-down terracotta pots.

A house across the street from the community garden entrance is hedged by rhododendron bushes full of pale to dark pink flowers.The left and right sides are framed by large, green, straight-trunked tulips trees. The house itself is barely visible as a gray roof and a bit of sage green siding. The sidewalk below the hedging is slanted uphill to the right.

Tamed wild iris growing in the pollinator gardens at the Picardo P-Patch (Iris douglasii)
I love the frilly edges on those long petals
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A small clump of Douglas iris graces the pollinator garden. The flowers are violet, blue and white, with small yellow beards at the base of the three tubular petals. The petals are veined in dark purple. There are several buds spiraling around the flower spike, which open in succession. The green leaves are long and strappy.

Pretty in pink, an Oregon checkermallow grows among lupins and grasses in a grassy patch in Maple Leaf Park.
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A pink Oregon checkermallow grows in a field full of grasses and river lupin. The checkermallow flowers glow in tender shades of pink on their stalk. The flowers have 5 translucent petals with faint, darker pink stripes. The white anthers are clustered together with the 5 tips of the pink pistil curling out at the top. Although the grasses hide most of the leaves and stem, you can see one palmate, deeply lobed leaf between the grass blades. The pink of the flowers contrasts artistically with the blue and white of the lupin flowers.

Looking up at a horse chestnut tree in full bloom in the park
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Looking up at the flower panicles on a horse chestnut tree in the park. The tree is full of panicles of white flowers The 5 petaled flowers start out light green, then brighten to white with yellow spots at the base of the top two petals, and later these spots turn bright pink. The green leaves of the tree obscure some of the panicles. The leaves are composite and palmate with 5 to 7 leaflets joined at the top of the leaf stem. In this shot, if you expand it, you can see the trunk of the tree as well as those of a couple of trees behind it.
Horse chestnuts are poisonous to most animal except squirrels. Interestingly (to me at least!) horse chestnuts, and their cousin the American buckeye, are related to maples, whereas edible chestnuts are related to oaks.

The first camas (Camassia quamash) flower I have seen this year. But I see a lot of leaves, so there should be an abundance soon! This meadow is part of the Seattle Parks native plant restoration effort.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSpring #NativePlantsOfThePNW #SeattleParks #MapleLeafNeighborhood

A 6 petaled lilac camas flower opens at the base of a spear of flower buds. The petals have streaks of blue and dark lilac from the bottom to the top. The anther stems are blue with yellow pollen filled anthers. The pistil is light green. The plant is surrounded by meadow grasses. (Species Camassia quamash)

Happy #EarthDay! To celebrate and help out planet, here are some activities from #SeattleParks this week: exploring nature, stenciling storm drains and cleanups.

https://parkways.seattle.gov/2025/04/06/2025-earth-month-events-activities-with-seattle-parks-and-recreation/

Some berries found on a walk: The nice round fuzzy-looking berries are salal (Gaultheria shallon). And they are quite tasty eaten out of hand. The Indigenous folk would dry them and use them in sustaining foods like pemmican. The bluish ones are tall Oregon grape (Berberis aquifolium) which are not as tasty raw. In fact they can make your mouth pucker up. But they make nice jelly or jam if you can beat the birds to them. Cowen Park.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #NativePlants #SeattleParks 📷🌱🍃

A couple of sprigs of round dark blue berries with fine reddish hairs sit amid the salal plants’ oval glossy green leaves in a woodsy understory.

A cluster of bloom-covered blue Oregon grape berries in various stages of ripeness sit amid branches of holly shaped leaves. Some of the berries are dry and look like raisins. The stems the berries sit on look well picked over by forest critters

On a walk in the park, a fruitful season ahead: the thimbleberry bushes are full of berries which will soon be as ripe as the one I already ate. And the Nootka rose bushes are full of big fat rosehips which will soon ripen to lovely oranges and reds. Ravenna Park.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #NativePlants #SeattleParks 📷🌱🍃

A ripe thimbleberry flushes a luscious red amid a cluster of berries in various stages of ripening. (Rubus parviflorus)

A fat green rosehip sits amid green rose leaves. It probably will soon be full of vitamin C. (Rosa nutkana)

A lot's going on out there! Let's take a breather, yeah? 😌

#seattleparks #nature #cityparks

A Puget Sound cherry gracing the side of a trail in Ravenna Park's ravine on a cold partly cloudy March day. These are a hybrid between the native bitter cherry (Prunus emarginata) and European sweet cherries (Prunus avium).
Seattle, Washington, USA

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A photo of white cherry-like blossoms along a branch net to a trail in Ravenna Park. The branch arches across the top of the photo and the trail bends below the branch. The background is in colors of early spring, greens and wintry browns blending in a pleasant haze.

A snag felled by a windstorm, and a few critters are homeless
#Photography #PNW #SeattleParks #RavennaParkSeattle

An old dead tree snag felled by a windstorm made a few critters homeless. The photo shows a weathered tree with carefully rounded nest holes and lots of insect bores. It's on the ground surrounded by branches and ground cover. Ravenna Park, Seattle, Washington, USA

Rainy day blues: A cactus stares out a rain covered window. Volunteer Park Conservatory, Seattle, Washington, USA

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Photograph of a shaggy column cactus in front of a rain bespattered window. The cactus is topped with a tuft of hair. The window is in shades of green and blue. Volunteer Park Conservatory, Seattle, Washington, USA

Apparently #SeattleParks with #SeattlePolice “support” is currently about to remove the Black Lives Matter Memorial Garden in Cal Anderson park — the last actual community space remaining from the 2020 protests in the area. This is after groups objected. :(

I grumble but it was a lovely ride on the I-90 trail to all our freeway lid (or adjacent) parks — me on acoustic Brompton (zoom zoom and nimble!), kiddo on her new scooter (thanks #SeattleParks for showing up at a park with some to make her want one) and my mom on her e-assist box trike that the kiddo found ride in after the inevitable knee scraping fall. #SeaBikes #Seattle #FamilyBiking

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