Jill - I agree that seeing the flowers in their native habitat is amazing. We can create some of that natural feel in our own gardens and it helps the birds and insects when we do.
Native plants offer food for birds and flowers for bees. They also require less water and tending once they are established.
I have found my native plants at the Native Plant Salvage Foundation plant sales. In my garden I enjoy the hummingbirds coming to visit the red flowering currant each spring. Here are a few of the natives in my yard:
Sword fern, bush honeysuckle, oxalis, oregon grape, snowberry, vanilla leaf, inside-out-flower, salal, ocean spray, spirea, evergreen huckleberry. Many of these are happy under the Douglas fir and cedar trees.
If people are interested in learning about our native plants and gardening with them the Native Plant Society is a good place to start. They have local chapters.
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