(Photo from Daniel)
Last weekend, we published Daniel‘s reader report reminding people about the roadside Delridge Native Forest Garden as a potential spot to take a walk. Today, in fact, SDOT has announced a Tree Walk for the site – actually three walks on the afternoon of Friday, May 15. RSVPs are required and you’ll find the links, along with more details, here.
Living right near it, we have walked it a few times. It is surprisingly isolated feeling from the street, but largely empty of plants. Presumably as the new plantings grow it will feel like a forest.
New plants, especially natives sometimes, are notoriously slow to establish. “First year they sleep, second year they creep, third year they leap” is the saying. As I’ve been converting my yard to natives, this has been very true. Plants initially focus their energy into establishing roots when transplanted.
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