snowberry

We’ve grown especially fond of snowberry, flowering currant, our two native strawberries, wood sorrel, vine maple and of course, our state flower, the Pacific rhododendron.

The logs are covered in mulch, on which crews planted more than 30,000 native plants, shrubs and trees: Nootka rose, snowberry, cottonwoods, Lyngbye’s sedge, beach grass.

Rumor is that this snowberry is reasonably deer-resistant, but it’s probably too soon to tell.

Their names are playful: squashberries, wild beach plums, mayhaw, snowberries and the dreamily named cloudberry.

Others have proposed Native American plants: the evergreen currant, the island snapdragon, hummingbird sage and creeping snowberry, Espinosa said.