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  • Sheri Kiley, Mary Booth, and Chuck Holland on a break (summer 2024)

    Sheri Kiley, Mary Booth, and Chuck Holland on a break

    Photo by Claudia Gorbman

  • Bunchberries (smallest in the dogwood family) in June

    Photo by Claudia Gorbman
  • Leopard lily (Lilium pardalinum)

    Summer: leopard lily shows off

  • Yarrow and cinquefoil in living color

    Photo by Claudia Gorbman

  • Weeding and chatting

    Photo by Claudia Gorbman
  • Native Plant Garden volunteers at a spring 2024 work party

    Volunteers at a work party April 2024

    Photo by Claudia Gorbman
  • Summer blooms of columbine mingle with Douglas iris

    Summer: blooms of columbine mingle with Douglas iris

    Photo by Chris Brinton
  • Western trumpet honeysuckle blooms in June next to the garden fence

    Honeysuckle along the fence in June

    Photo by Pam Keeley
  • Buck Lake Native Plant Garden south entrance

    Spring: south entrance to the garden

    Photo by Lindsey Vallance

  • Native ("false") Solomon's seal in flower

    Photo by Marilyn De Roy
  • May at the south entrance: weeding around the false Solomon's seal

    Spring: Weeding at the south entrance

    Photo by Marilyn De Roy

  • Summer: Flowers and goodies at work party break

    Photo by Chuck Holland

  • Summer: Native ("False") Solomon's seal berries

    Photo by Claudia Gorbman

  • By the swale during a morning of work

    Photo by Chuck Holland

Visit the Native Plant Garden

As glorious autumn sets in, there's still color in the BLNPG and plenty to learn about using natives in your own garden. It's always open and free to visit.
Final work parties of 2025 will be Monday October 7, and Monday October 21, 9am-12, and you're invited. Get a taste of the pleasure we take (and fun we have) in making the garden beautiful, and perhaps decide to make volunteering more of a habit in 2025. Bring your gardening gloves and wear sturdy footwear!
Arctostaphyllos uva-ursi (kinnikinnick)
Kinnikinnick

One of the Northwest's most attractive and well-known all-season ground covers, Arctostaphyllos uva-ursi grows in a variety of settings.

Vaccinium ovatum (evergreen huckleberry)
Evergreen Huckleberry

Vaccinium ovatum, with its small glossy dark green leaves and new shoots tinged with bronze, is a tough, but well behaved, addition to the native garden.

Lonicera involacrata (black twinberry)
Black Twinberry

Black twinberry (Lonicera involucrata) produces pairs of small yellow tubular flowers, which turn burgundy red in late summer; the flowers mature to black berries.

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Contact Us

Plan to visit the Buck Lake Native Plant Garden located at 6959 Buck Lake Rd,
(in Buck Lake Park), Hansville, WA

The Buck Lake Native Plant Garden is designed to show how easily and beautifully native plants can be integrated into the home landscape. The garden features plants native to Southern British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Northern California, west of the mountains. Divided into various areas and planted accordingly, visitors will find moist, shady beds, a hedgerow, a sunny meadow, a semi-shady birch grove, a seasonal streambed and an extensive rain garden.

Since 2006, the BLNPG has been developed by a group of Kitsap County Master Gardeners, local garden club members, and other interested Greater Hansville area residents.

Anyone with an interest in gardening and conservation is encouraged to join our group to learn about native plants and their benefits to our local wildlife. Work parties are held on the first and third Mondays of April through October.

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