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14 February 2025 Shaw Island, San Juan Archipelago, WA. |
In celebration of gardens and wild botanicals of Shaw Island, please view photos, cultural, and historical notes for seeds from a cross-section of island gardens and wild places. The posts listed here aid in cultivating the herbs and flower seeds bound in handmade packets at the shed along Reefnet Bay Road, in the spring, summer, and fall. There are also a few articles in the history timeline that help us remember some of the pioneer gardeners and the crops they grew.
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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. |