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Hairy bittercress, Cardamine hirsuta.

Dandelion, but only in the winter.  It is too bitter when it begins flowering in the spring.

My deer fortunately won't eat squash plants, or onions, though they really like leeks.

One year they didn't touch a furry-leafed tomato plant.

Of course, YDMD.  (Your deer may differ)

Good heavens, Kathleen.  You have so many more than I do.  It's good I'm living on an island.

Diane

Etsy has replica baboon skulls. 

Also badger, mink, coyote, and camel skulls. If there are matching flowers for each, you could have an entire themed section of your garden!

We could have a new section, placed between Geophyte Discussions and Off-topic Area.

Regional Bulb Growing

North America:
Pacific Northwest Coastal
Pacific Northwest Mountain
California
Southwest

Europe:

etc

Trillium albidum from Oregon and northern California.

The red flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum) flowers just when the rufous hummingbirds arrive back from their winter home in Mexico.

(We also have Anna's hummingbirds which live here all the time and don't migrate.)

I have lots of natives on my half acre, and am constantly pulling out their seedlings - 

Conifers:  Abies grandis, Taxus brevifolia, Thuja plicata
Broadleaf trees:  Acer macrophyllum, Arbutus menziesii, Cornus nuttallii
Shrubs:  Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, Gaultheria shallon, Holodiscus discolor, Lonicera ciliosa, Mahonia aquifolium, M. nervosa, Philadelphus lewisii, Ribes sanguineum, Rubus leucodermis, R. parviflorus, R. spectabilis, R. ursinus, Symphoricarpos albus

I won't mention all the ferns, which sow themselves into my seed-pots.

Natives that grow on my property are Erythronium oregonum, E. hendersonii  and E. revolutum.  The hendersonii is from a bit further south, but grows well here. 

Also a number of Trilliums - Trillium hibbersonii, which is native to a tiny area of the island where I live (Vancouver Island), and T. ovatum which was growing on the land when I bought it.  I also grow several from further south - T. albidum, T. chloropetalum, T. kurabayshi and T. rivale.

Diane

You sure crammed the bulbs in.  What grows there in the summer?

I am already an iNaturalist member.  Are you suggesting an additional membership?

Fortunately we can still buy peat.  My rhododendrons and blueberries wouldn't be happy with coconut shells.

Quote from: David Pilling on March 24, 2022, 07:56:17 PMI like Anemone nemorosa - but I suspect mine are lost.

How could one ever lose it?  I have many forms, but one is so vigorous I am trying to lose it. Every year I dig out a bucketful. Its stick-like rhizomes had covered the ground so thoroughly that Erythronium revolutum couldn't emerge.  

Parrot is OK.  They got the colour wrong, though.

Nice daffodil but it would only make you rich if it were a snowdrop.

Here is the same Nerine undulata posted in early January.  It is an incredibly long-lasting flower, and is finally setting seeds which will sow themselves into nearby pots if I don't remove them.

The length of bloomtime is very unusual as many South African flowers last for only a few hours.