HUGE Native Plant Sale Fundraiser Mother’s Day Weekend in Burien May 7th & 8th Saturday and Sunday 10 AM – 5 PM Native Plants & Some Garden Favorites in the Sale: Red Flowering Currant, Twinberry, Low and Tall Oregon Grapes, Irises, Ferns, Coastal Strawberries, Nodding Onion, Western Red Columbine, Bleeding Heart, Native Trees, Evergreen Huckleberry, Blanket Flower, Lungwort, Lilies, Wild Ginger, Mints, Oregano, Honeysuckle, Bear Grass, Cascara, Blackcap Raspberry, Blue Eyed Grass, Blue Elderberry, Cascade Penstemon, Catnip, Douglas Spirea, Oxalis, Sorrel, Fringe Cup, Hardy Geranium, Hardy Cyclamen, Oregon Stonecrop, Pacific Ninebark, Pacific Rhododendron, Pea Fruited and Nootka Roses, Red Huckleberry, Saxifrage, Salmonberry, Sedums, Snowberry, thimbleberry, Vine Maple, Big Leaf Maple, Native Willow, shore Pine, Red Osier Dogwood, Palmate Coltsfoot, Oregon Sunshine, Mock Orange, alumroot, Serviceberry, and MORE…. Address: 13257 5th Ave SW Burien Corner of 5th Ave and 134th Street Green and white house with a chain link fence Plenty of Parking Credit Cards accepted via Square. Cash is okay, No checks. Sales benefit the Weed Warriors Nature Stewards Program, a local environmental 501c3 non-profit. We are currently restoring a wetland habitat by removing invasive noxious weeds at 9701 Myers Way So. near Camp Second Chance. Create a Wildlife Habitat and certify your yard or garden with the National Wildlife Federation: https://www.nwf.org/CERTIFY Why Native Plants? Native Plants support our native birds, butterflies, bees, and other native wildlife. Native plants are suited to our climate, our soil, and have supported the native wildlife and insects throughout the ages. Native plants, wildlife and insects evolved together in the Pacific Northwest and as a result, mutually benefit one another. When properly located and established, native plants do well with little care. They are drought tolerant, and most plants can be grown with no fertilizers or pesticides. They are rarely invasive, as are some non-native plants. When planted in the right place, with the right amount of light and moisture, native plants thrive. Some do well in the shade of other trees. Some do well under conifer trees that deflect rain during winter months. Some are meadow plants that grow in full sun. Our native plants, un-like non-native plants, are uniquely adapted to our unusual Pacific Northwest climate. In winter we have a steady supply of rain, and in summer we have little measurable rainfall. Non-native plants usually require irrigation in the summer, and non-native drought tolerant plants do not like our wet winters […]
