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August 13, 2020
Pacific Northwest
Deep into August, native fruit season is in full swing. The early ones like Salmonberry are done but plenty others are ripening and ready to eat. Wildlife like birds and chippies are munching down.
Hips of our two common rose species are reddening. Nootka rose, above, is abundant in sunny fields, hedgerows and roadsides. The smaller fruits of Baldhip roses are also ripening where that more spindly plant grows in shady mixed thickets.
Baldhip rose (Rosa gymnocarpa )
This is what the roadside looks like where I walk in my neighborhood.
Roadside thicket of salal and rose
More fruit —
Salal (Gaulthoria shallon)
Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus). Sublime berry flavor
Snowberry. (Symphoricarpos albus) DON’T EAT!
Pacific crabapple (Malus fusca). Native tree
Native Scouler’s willow. But those aren’t fruit. Some kind of gall, maybe sawfly.
Scouler’s willow (Salix scouleri)
Nonnative bramble, Himalayan blackberry. Yum.
Then of course there’s whats ripening in my small garden. Pears, apples, tomatoes, beans, corn, etc.
Blueberries!
Blueberry cream scones. Easy recipe
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Mostly sunny today in the PNW and warming up.
What’s up in nature in your area today?
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