Shattuck Ave Native Plant Garden

Here's the garden in its early days.

This is the first set of plants we put in.

These pictures are from May 2013.

This is what the yard looked like before we started work. This picture is from May 2013.

Some pictures from December 2014. The Western redbud is bare, but the grass is nice and green, despite not getting much rain.

One of our Clarkias went crazy and started producing a huge amount of flowers from a stem that had flattened out.

Have you seen other plants do this?

Frannie Lewis and Mark Seaborn’s garden – #10 « Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour Frannie, who grew up spending a lot of time in nature, yearned to do something with the weeds and construction fill in the small front yard of her rental. Two years ago, enthused with the possibility of creating a native plant buffer between their apartment and the busy street, Frannie and her partn…