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THE FLORA LIBRARY

The plants we build with.

Six Pacific Northwest natives that anchor our planting plans — chosen for beauty, toughness, and what they give back to birds, bees, and soil.

A dense salal thicket of thick, glossy oval leaves carrying small clusters of ripening blue-black berries.

Salal

Gaultheria shallon

Evergreen groundwork; the coast's most forgiving shrub.

Sword fern fronds arching in the filtered light beneath tall conifers.

Sword Fern

Polystichum munitum

Architecture for shade — four feet of evergreen structure, zero fuss.

A near-circular vine maple leaf lit from behind, nine shallow toothed lobes fanning from a single point.

Vine Maple

Acer circinatum

A small tree that does autumn better than anything imported.

A pendulous pink raceme of red-flowering currant hanging over lobed green leaves.

Red-flowering Currant

Ribes sanguineum

March flowers that call every hummingbird on the street.

A dense evergreen mat of small leaves studded with red kinnikinnick berries.

Kinnikinnick

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi

Sun-proof evergreen carpet for banks and bluffs.

A western trillium in bloom, three narrow white petals opening above three broad green bracts, sword ferns behind.

Western Trillium

Trillium ovatum

The forest's quiet spring flag — plant it and wait, happily.

Every plan we draw starts with plants like these — and with what your site already knows how to grow.

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