Gallery

Buck Lake Native Plant Garden through the year.

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

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

South Entrance

May at the south entrance: weeding around the false Solomon's seal

Spring: Weeding at the south entrance

Buck Lake Native Plant Garden

Spring: a display of Flowering currant

Ribes sanguineum 'White Icicle' (flowering currant)

Spring: White Icicle Flowering Currant

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

The spring blooms of <em>Ribes sanguineum</em>

Spring: blooms of Ribes sanguineum (flowering currant)

<em>Ribes sanguineum</em> 'White Icicle' (flowering currant)

Spring: Ribes sanguineum "White Icicle" (flowering currant)

Buck Lake Native Plant Garden south entrance

Spring: south entrance to the garden

Mature planting at the south entrance

Summer: mature planting at the south entrance

Plant with red berries.

Fall: Native ("False") Solomon's Seal

Western trumpet honeysuckle blooms in June next to the garden fence

Honeysuckle along the fence in June

South Entrance to the native plant garden

Winter: south entrance to the garden

South Shade Area

Leopard lily (Lilium pardalinum)

Summer: leopard lily shows off

"Eddie's White Wonder" dogwood

Bleeding heart

Vine maple at the south entrance to the Buck Lake Native Plant Garden

Vine maple, ferns and evergreen huckleberry

A variety of ferns are at home in the summer shade garden.

A variety of ferns

Summer: Foliage and textures under the redbud tree

Vine maple fall color

Fall: vine maple provides color to the garden

Vine maple fall foliage

Fall: vine maple's colorful foliage

Vine maple in winter

Winter: vine maple

Hummingbird nest in the BLNPG

Winter: hummingbird nest

Hedgerow Area

Mock orange in bloom

Spring: mock orange in bloom

Hedgerow

Spring: the hedgerow matures

Volunteers in the Garden

Volunteers at native plant garden

July '22 work party

Weeding and chatting

Native Plant Garden volunteers at a spring 2024 work party

Volunteers at a work party April 2024

VP Mary Booth in garden discussing plant with large yellow blossoms.

Spring: Mary Booth and tall Oregon grape

Summer: Flowers and goodies at work party break

Viburnum featured at work party break

Coffee Breaks feature plants in season

Volunteers take a break on a work party in June

Volunteers at a Work Party

Buck Lake Native Plant Garden Work Party

Fall: Mary Booth talks to volunteers during a work party break

Camas Meadow

Buck Lake Native Plant Garden

Spring: flowering currant and the camas meadow

The empty camas field, December 2022

The camas meadow

Spring: the camas meadow

We thought we eliminated it, but the camas came back! (Spring 2023)

We thought we took it out, but the camas came back! (May 2023)

Great camas and Douglas iris

Spring: great camas and Douglas iris

Seasonal Streambed

Yarrow and cinquefoil in living color

Buck Lake Native Plant Garden

Spring: along the main path

Seasonal/Dry Streambed

Spring: the seasonal streambed collecting runoff

Seasonal/Dry Streambed

Spring: the seasonal streambed emerging from winter

Summer blooms of columbine mingle with Douglas iris

Summer: blooms of columbine mingle with Douglas iris

BLNPG Seasonal Streambed

Summer: seasonal streambed

Indian plum is the first plant in the garden to bud out

Winter: Indian plum shows January buds

Swale and Surroundings

The main swale in January after rain

New plantings in the swale: yarrow

Summer: new plantings in the swale

Pacific coast iris

Spring: Pacific coast iris

Lupines bloom for weeks in the garden

Spring: lupines bloom for weeks in the garden

By the swale during a morning of work

September: Yarrow blooms in the swale

Douglas fir and shore pines

Winter: Douglas fir and shore pines

Remembrance Place

Bunchberries (smallest in the dogwood family) in June

Memorial stones on path near sitting area in garden.

Memorial stones in Remembrance Place

Indiam Plum in Bloom

Spring: a quiet place to enjoy the garden

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

Buck Lake Native Plant Garden

Summer: azaleas, penstemon and evergreen huckleberry bloom in pots

Large pots sitting on a gravel path with plants in summer bloom.

Summer: trio of pots in bloom

Sword and maidenhair ferns in winter

Winter: Remembrance Place

A winter day in the Buck Lake Native Plant Garden

Winter: from the main garden path

Rain Garden

Early fall: Foliage in the Rain Garden

Winter: Robins among cranberries

Winter: color in the rain garden

rain garden

Spring: lush new foliage in the rain garden

Spring foliage in the Buck Lake Native Plant Garden

Spring: bright new spring foliage

Buck Lake Native Plant Garden Rain Garden

Summer: flowers and foliage in the rain garden

Buck Lake Native Plant Garden

Summer: late afternoon in the rain garden

Lush summer foliage in the rain garden

The textures and colors of the summer rain garden

Summer: the textures and colors of the rain garden

Buck Lake Native Plant Garden

Fall: the perimeter path and the rain garden

Fall in the Buck Lake Native Plant Garden

Fall: colorful foliage comes to the rain garden

Red and yellow twigged dogwood in the rain garden

Winter: red and yellow twigged dogwood in the rain garden

The colorful stems of dogwood in the winter

Winter: the colorful stems of shrub dogwood as seen from the perimeter path

Cornus sericea in the snow

Winter: a little snow in the garden

Birch Grove

Buck Lake Native Plant Garden

Summer: stroll the garden paths

Oregon grape and snowberry under the birch trees

Summer: Oregon grape and snowberry under the birch trees

Fall color in the birch grove

Fall: the rain garden and birch grove

Winter walk through the birch grove

Winter: birch bark provides winter interest

Birch trees in Buck Lake Native Plant Garden

Winter: Birches in snow

Buck Lake Native Plant Garden

Winter: the birch grove

North Entrance

Light filters through birch trees at the Buck Lake Native Plant Garden's north entrance

Late summer at the North entrance

New curtain drain extends into Buck Lake Park

New drainage--angle from the field

Winter snowberries

Work on the new drain

Buck Lake Native Plant Garden

Summer: the north entrance to the garden

A Red-Breasted Sapsucker visits the birch grove

Summer: a Red-Breasted Sapsucker visits the garden

Sapsuckers frequent this old birch tree

Fall: the old birch tree at the North Entrance is a favorite of Red-Breasted Sapsuckers