Conservation of Washington’s Rare Native Plants

• What are rare species?

• Rare Care Program Overview

  • Seed storage and germination

  • Rare plant monitoring

  • Research and reintroductions

  • What can you do?

Hey, I Bet I Could Use That! Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle in the Garden

• Sustainable Sites Initiative TM overview

  • Importance of Sustainability

• Water Scarcity

  • Rainwater and runoff collection

  • Condensate recovery systems

  • Grey Water re-use

  • Mulches

  • Lawn reductions/alternatives

• Other sustainable practices

• Creative Recycled Items in the Garden

Resources (Handout Link)

Landscaping With Native Plants—The Wild Buckwheats

• Personal Background and Project Overview

• Native Plant Domestication Process

  • What makes a good nearly-domesticated native plant?

  • Plant selection process

• Overview of Buckwheat Diversity

• Buckwheat Domestication Project Progress

  • Who is growing buckwheats?

  • Which buckwheats have been domesticated and where can they be planted?

  • Pollinator relationships

• Personal Residence Landscape Example

• Landscape Worthy Buckwheats and Their Characteristics

  • Strict Buckwheat

  • Arrow-leaf Buckwheat (Northern Buckwheat)

  • Douglas’ Buckwheat

  • Parsnipflower Buckwheat (heracloides)

  • Oval-leaf Buckwheat (ovafolium)

  • Rock Buckwheat

  • Sulphur Buckwheat

  • Snow Buckwheat

  • Buckwheats not indigenous to the Columbia Basin

• Harvesting Seed & Propagating Your Own

  • Eriogonum Society for more information and seed exchanges