Gaiaceous Gardens
Mystical Forest Permaculture
gaiaceousgardens
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Gaiaceous Gardens is a permaculture-based residential landscape management company that specializes in using native plants to create, enhance or restore an urban or suburban forest, food forest and unique wildlife habitat. We also run a working/ teaching urban farm & certified wildlife habitat in Shoreline, WA.
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Studying and baking today with my ever-present kitchen companion...where there is food, my girl will be there to supervise and offer moral support.
February’s full moon is known as the Snow Moon, and although our February snow has melted, it feels like a good name. Snow softens yet obscures one’s view, which fit this evening’s gathering of women called to a moonrise we could only track because we knew what time it would be so.
Scots Pine(Pinus sylvestris) in the snow.
Belated posting of my funny (and deeply beloved) Valentines, on our Valentine’s Day forest hike, during our 48 hr snow event.
The other day, before this winter storm arrived, I saw a post on a regional native plant page I follow, where a person expressed their concern that their Red Flowering Currant (Ribes sanguineum) had just begun to leaf out and bloom. Would the plant re-grow these leaves and flowers that will certainly be killed by the upcoming frost, the concerned gardener asked?
I’ve posted about Thatching Ants before...an incredible species of native ant, they build massive ant hills reaching a couple feet tall and twice as deep underground. I once walked amongst a massive community of them in a state park far south of Seattle - dozens of ant hills spread out over several acres and straight lined superhighways of ants running single file, in both directions, connecting each hill...tens of thousands, maybe millions?, of ants. A mind-boggling sight to behold.
Favorite Quote:
I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose, I would always greet it in a garden. ~Ruth Stout
