March 28, 2025 The FECO Fifth Annual Plant Sale! Coming up Sunday, April 13, 1-4pm. Veggie starts, flowers, native and ornamental plants, dahlia tubers, other misc. bulbs, fruiting plants, fairy furniture, free seeds and more. You’re a gamer? We can offer Plant ID Bingo and a Native Plant Quiz! Meet nice people. Take a tour […]
September 12, 2024 The Ants Go Stinging One By One, Hurrah, Hurrah?? Ants exploded out of the gravel and dashed in all directions. In no time many scurried up my glove and onto my skin, blasting formic acid from bottom of their butts. Trying to solve an irrigation problem, I had disrupted an ant colony. […]
April 24, 2024 “I can do this. I’ll take a seed tray of Western Columbine (Aquilegia formosa) home and watch over it,” I announced to the native plant nursery co-chair at Magnuson Park. It was late November, when we propagate native plants by seed. The nursery leader makes a delicate, moist seed-potting medium. You push […]