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WESTERN LONG-SPURRED VIOLETS (Viola adunca) Native to the San Juan Islands, WA. This photo was taken 14 April 2025. More on this local perennial can be viewed HERE. Thanks to a helpful harvester, these cleaned Viola seeds are now available at the Shaw Island Gatehouse Reefnet Road, Shaw Island, San Juan Archipelago, WA. "The shortest route to an intimate understanding of a plant's needs is to tend it from seed packet to maturity." |
Slowly learning what to
plant for pollinators
that the deer don't eat.
Gatehouse Garden
Shaw Island,
San Juan Archipelago, WA.
11 April 2025
Seeds are being broadcast.
'Spring with that nameless pathos in the air
which dwells with all things fair,
Spring with her golden suns and silver rain
is with us once again."
Henry Timrod.
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Floating Hellebores and Pieris came by for a Spring photo on this day of 21 March 2025 Gatehouse treat and a vintage English Dish kindness of Nancy D. |
Celebrate the Vernal Equinox at Sunrise as the
Celebration of New Beginnings,
the Reawakening of Nature & the moment
when the Time of Light becomes greater
than the Time of Dark.
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"The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree, a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity, that, or least, one may replace the parent." Ralph Waldo Emerson Extracted from "The Triumph of Seeds" by Thor Hanson Signed copy from the library of Gatehouse Seeds, Shaw Island, San Juan Archipelago, WA. Wild Douglas Aster seed harvest of 2024. More about this easy-street, wild perennial, wildflower, loved by many pollinators - can be seen here. |
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Fresh local seed packets available at the Gatehouse roadside shed, Reefnet Bay Road, Shaw Island, San Juan Archipelago, WA. |
