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Sleepy Cat Natives

@sleepycatnatives.bsky.social

Sleepy Cat Natives specializes in PNW native seeds. We offer 48 species; including annuals, perennials, and shrubs! Bring the PNW to your garden! www.sleepycatnatives.com https://sleepycatnatives.etsy.com

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Nobody Nursery @nobodynursery.bsky.social · 6d ago

Including Rumex occidentalis, there were nearly fifty species and subspecies of WA-native plants that I needed to add to latest update to The Big List last month (tinyurl.com/GetTheBigList), having not previously encountered them for sale in the past couple years that I've been keeping track.

The Big List

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Sleepy Cat Natives @sleepycatnatives.bsky.social · 4d ago

Fireweed seed is so beautiful! #bloomscrolling #pnw #seed #nativegardening #fall

Sleepy Cat Natives @sleepycatnatives.bsky.social · last wk.

Most people have heard that Fall is the best time to plant native plants, which it is! But did you also know that many of your native seedlings can be directly transplanted from your propagation tray into your garden? #nativeplants #pnw #gardening #startingseed #flowers

Silver Bush Lupine seedlings ready to be set free!

Silver Bush Lupine (mislabeled in the pic) directly transplanted from the salad box propagator to a space near our mailbox in a hard pack clay/gravel soil.

Same Silver Bush Lupine in it's tweenager phase!

And, here the Silver Bush Lupine is about to flower for it's very first year!

The One True Kat @theonetruekat.bsky.social · last wk.

When I moved here a little over a year ago, the rental house had a bare yard and not much wildlife. So I went to work on water spots, brush piles and pollinator habitat. This morning a chorus frog is warming up his vocals, just outside my front door. I’ve been smiling all morning. ❤️

Sleepy Cat Natives @sleepycatnatives.bsky.social · 2w ago

Some of your native seeds would benefit from Summer sowing! There are quite a few species that require a warm moist stratification period before the typical cold moist stratification! Here are a few examples. #nativeplants #nativeseed #gardening #seeds #pnw #flowers

Bleeding Heart seeds are a little more complicated. They require a period of warm moist stratification, then a cold moist stratification, followed by an additional warm moist stratification! Starting these seeds in the summer is ideal for the first stage, then they can over Winter for their cold stratification, and naturally get their last warm stratification when Spring arrives!

Blue Elderberry does best with a warm stratification followed by a cold stratification.

Thimbleberry also will benefit from a warm stratification followed by a cold stratification. Their germination rates will also be improved if their seeds are soaked in water for 24-48 hrs before starting the warm stratification.

Just like Blue Elderberry, Red Elderberry will do best with a warm stratification followed by a cold stratification.

Sleepy Cat Natives @sleepycatnatives.bsky.social · 3w ago

Happy Friday! #busybees #nativeplants #pnw #bloomscrolling

Sleepy Cat Natives @sleepycatnatives.bsky.social · 4w ago

Even more lovely native late season bloomers! #nativeplants #nativegarden #pnw #gardening #flowers #bloomscrolling

Douglas Spirea (also called Rose Spirea) will be blooming for another month at least. It's a favorite of Bumblebees and is a fantastic native substitute for the invasive Butterfly Bush.

Great Northern Aster is also blooming now, and will continue for a couple of months! This lovely Aster can be grown as an understory plant in your woodland garden.

Coyote Mint and Orange Bush Monkey flower have been blooming for months now, and are still offering fresh flowers to pollinators! Orange Bush Monkey flower will greatly benefit from a little supplemental water through the hot summer to look it's best.

Elegant Tarweed is a very showy (and lovely smelling) native annual that has been blooming for a month now, and will continue for another couple months.

Sleepy Cat Natives @sleepycatnatives.bsky.social · 4w ago

Here's a few more late blooming PNW wildflowers that can deliver color to your garden now! #nativeplants #nativegarden #pnw #flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling

California Beeplant is an understated wildflower that packs a huge nectar punch for wildlife. It's loved by bumblebees and hummingbirds.

Columbia Coreopsis is a very airy wildflower with multiple flowers on tall thin stems. It's typically a biennial but can occasionally be an annual.

Blanketflower is a super colorful, super loooong blooming wildflower. Often continuing to bloom deep into Winter!

While not exactly a wildflower, Coyote Bush is a must mention for late season flowers! This is one of the most valuable wildlife plants that can be added to your native garden. It supports a huge variety of pollinators and predatory insects, not to mention song birds, hummingbirds and tree frogs! It's flower buds are only just starting to form. =)

Sleepy Cat Natives @sleepycatnatives.bsky.social · 4w ago

Looking for late season color for your garden? There are a few great options native to the PNW blooming now! #nativeplants #nativegarden #lateseasonflowers #pnw #gardening #flowers #bloomscrolling

Pearly Everlasting has been blooming for a few weeks now and will likely continue for another month and a half!

Scarlet Monkeyflower has been blooming for a little over a month now, but with supplemental water it'll continue to bloom for a few more weeks.

Goldenrod has also been blooming for over a month now and while some of the flower plumes are fading it is still sending up fresh flowers. Goldenrod attracts a huge variety of pollinators and predatory insects, second only to Coyote Bush (which is only just starting to form it's flower buds).

Hall's Aster has just opened it's first three flowers on our farm and will continue to bloom heavily for a couple months.

Sleepy Cat Natives @sleepycatnatives.bsky.social · last mo.

Douglas Aster opened it's first flower of the season on the farm yesterday! #nativeplants #nativegarden #pnw #bloomscrolling #gardening

Douglas Aster is a very valuable late season food source for pollinators, and a great way to liven up the native garden when most of our other natives have finished for the year.

Sleepy Cat Natives @sleepycatnatives.bsky.social · last mo.

Pacific Asters are starting to bloom in NW Oregon! #nativeplants #nativegarden #bloomscrolling #pnw

Pacific Asters are great plants for both container gardening and in ground flower beds.

Sleepy Cat Natives @sleepycatnatives.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Very happy to announce that Coyote Mint (Monardella villosa) and Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus) seeds from our 2026 harvest are now available! #nativeplants #nativegarden #gardening #plants #PNW #California #flowers #nativeseed

Coyote Mint provides a rich source of nectar for pollinators and blooms for such a long time. As an added benefit it smells divine!

Thimbleberry is such a beautiful shrub. I find it incredibly relaxing to look at. Most of this shrub's leaves are angled on nearly the same plane bringing some very interesting texture to a woodland garden bed

Suzanne Daley @suzannedaley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Of course!!! 🌲🦎🌿 #greenwitch #nature #forest #trees #plants #animism #peace

Sleepy Cat Natives @sleepycatnatives.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Natives can also make fantastic companions for your veggie garden! Check out our mass planting of Elegant Tarweed that both dresses up the garden's deer fence and draws in the pollinators! #nativeplants #companionplanting #gardening #flowers #pnw #permiculture #backyardhabitat

This beautiful yellow wall is self sown from Elegant Tarweed I planted last year! It's an excellent pollinator plant, has a very yummy resinous pineapple-ish smell for us humans, and the deer don't like it!

Elegant Tarweed helps draw in more pollinators for our Zucchini and green beans!

These yellow flowers will roll up tight in the afternoon heat to conserve water, and will open again when the sun starts to set in the evening. It would be interesting to do a moth survey to see how many species visit this plant throughout the night!

Elegant Tarweed flowers have so many interesting color variations, sometimes even on the same plant!

Luciearl @luciearl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Plant diverse forests. Never remove the understory of native plants. Don't point fingers at your neighbor when the US has done the same.

Tod Maffin 🇨🇦@todmaffin.com · 2mo ago

Canada is burning, and America is complaining about the view.

Sleepy Cat Natives @sleepycatnatives.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Bleeding Heart and Seaside Daisy seeds are back in stock! These are the fresh 2026 crop. www.sleepycatnatives.com #nativeplants #nativeseed #gardening #backyardhabitat #pnw

Summer is the ideal time to sow Bleeding Heart, as they require a three cycle warm - cold - warm moist stratification period to break dormancy. You might be able to skip this period with freshly harvested seeds!

Seaside Daisies are such a lovely, long blooming, easy going ground cover for West Coast gardens!

SubRosa )✿( Magick (chat to book a reading)@subrosamagick.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Sleepy Cat Natives @sleepycatnatives.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Wildflower Spotlight! I'd like to introduce you to a lesser known, yet gorgeous and very garden worthy native thistle called Short Styled Thistle. This beauty is a very well behaved wildflower with very high wildlife value! #gardening #flowers #wildlife #nativeplants #nativegarden #pnw #oregon

Short Styled Thistle flower bud forming.

These lovely Thistles can grow anywhere from 2-5 feet tall. They prefer part shade - shade making them excellent for your native woodland garden bed!

Short Styled Thistle prickles are slightly softer than the exotic, invasive thistles. These beauties won't take over your yard like the invasives either!

These Thistle flowers have a lovely cobwebby appearance.

Kepano Kolohe @alala55.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Craig F @cfoh.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Two solar facilities built on rehabilitated agricultural land were restored with native plants. Argonne researchers observed pollinators thrive." Solar power, when smartly built, can improve agriculture *and* provide clean, pollution-free, low-cost energy. www.anl.gov/article/inse...

Insect populations flourish in the restored habitats of solar energy facilities

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory studied how insect communities responded to newly established habitats on solar energy facilities built on retired agricultural land. At the end of five year...

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Sleepy Cat Natives @sleepycatnatives.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Blown away by the Showy Milkweed display in Southern Oregon his weekend! It's in full flower display with Oregon Sunshine and the Monarchs are moving through! #nativeplants #nativeplantrestoration #Klamathriver #southernoregon #butterflies #flowers #pnw

Milkweed in full flower with Milkweed beetles.

Milkweed in full flower with both White and Black Oaks in the background.

Milkweed in full flower with a huge patch of Oregon Sunshine in the background!

Toxic @toxiccute.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Picture of a woman gardening that says "Anyone wanna go plant endangered native plants that are illegal to remove on the land they want to build these data centers?".

Nobody Nursery @nobodynursery.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Tomorrow Nobody Nursery will be closed because I'll be up at Shark Garden from 10-4, which is the start point for the Burien Garden Tour. To match the vibe at Shark Garden I prioritized edible WA-native plants to pack into the car, plus a few used for fiber or traditional medicine.

Nobody Nursery inventory (https://tinyurl.com/NobodyNurseryInventory)

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David Jakubiak @davidjakubiak.bsky.social · 4mo ago

You ever look at Yarrow, like really look at it.

the intricate yellow and white lace of white yarrow are a delightful surprise in a sometimes overlooked native plant. But with its fern-like leaves and adaptability it’s a great addition for any midwest native planting.

Sleepy Cat Natives @sleepycatnatives.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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Mosquito Bucket Challenge - Homegrown National Park

Natural mosquito control: The Mosquito Bucket Challenge is a safe, affordable way to control mosquitoes without harming kids, pets, or pollinators.

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Sleepy Cat Natives @sleepycatnatives.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I noticed an interesting discrepancy in the blooming stages of 10 Oregon Sunshine plants, all of which are planted along our driveway within ~30 feet of each other. Here are photos of 4 of the plants taken yesterday. =) #nativegarden #nativeplants #gardening #flowers #pnw

This lovely is the only one in full bloom at the moment. It's planted along the South Eastern side of an arborvitae hedge. It's the second one to lose the sun in the evenings (around 2pm).

This Oregon Sunshine is only 5 feet away (north) from the plant in the first photo along the same arborvitae hedge. It loses the sun about 20 minutes sooner than the plant in the first photo.

This Oregon Sunshine is directly across from the plant in the second photo, approximately 12 feet to the West. It loses the sun last (around 7pm).

This is the largest patch of Oregon Sunshine. It is roughly 20 feet further north from the plant in the third photo, and loses the light ~ 6:30pm.

Sleepy Cat Natives @sleepycatnatives.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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The billionaires’ club at the center of America’s public lands fight - High Country News

A controversial land swap orchestrated by the mega rich could be ‘a harbinger of what’s to come’ for public lands under Trump.

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Sleepy Cat Natives @sleepycatnatives.bsky.social · 4mo ago

More Spring flowers for your enjoyment! #nativegarden #nativeplants #flowers #gardening #pnw

Thimbleberries are showing off their papery flowers!

Sea Thrift is beginning to flower, and looking lovely!

I have quite a few Oregon Sunshine plants scattered throughout the farm, and noticed that they are not all on the same bloom schedule. This one near the driveway entrance is the first of the plants to bloom. There's a
very large plant next to our house (150 ft away) that is about half way to achieving full bloom, and all of the others have unopened blossoms. It's neat to watch!

All of the Riverbank Lupines are fully loaded with flowers, and the bumblebees are happy!

Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Once dismissed as weeds, native plants are now flying off the shelves grist.org/solutions/on...

Once dismissed as weeds, native plants are now flying off the shelves

Gardeners across the country are flocking to climate-resilient native plants as concerns about extreme heat, flooding, and pollinators grow.

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