Cooley’s hedge nettle (Stachys cooleyae) likes to grow along stream beds and in marshy spots. It blooms from June to August. Sighted this August in Cowen Park, it flowers sparsely, so you never get a cloud of magenta flowers. #Photography#NativePlants#NativePlantsOfThePNW#SeattleWashington 📷🌿
One of the most common older street trees in our neighborhood is the horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum). The fruit is a green spiky capsule with one or two nuts. These have a rich reddish brown colored shell, and are toxic. #Photography#SeattleWashington#MapleLeafNeighborhood 📷
Really old false turkey tails greening up with algae. It has been a dry summer here, and so far, this autumn is dry. Mushrooms pop up given half a chance, but Seattle is poorly served this year. #Photography#SeattleWashington#Mushrooms#Fungi 📷🍄
There aren't very many mushrooms in the park at present, but I did spot redlead roundhead or chip cherry mushrooms (Leratiomyces ceres), growing happily in the chip mulch under the redcedars. Ravenna Park #Photography#SeattleWashington#Mushrooms#Fungi 📷🍄
Rainy day tomato: it wasn’t supposed to rain, but it did. Then the fog came along to leave tiny droplets. And I have removed all the leaves to hasten the ripening. I hope. #Photography#SeattleWashington#OurHouse#OurGarden 📷🏡🍅
The last plums, and almost last apples (one harvest to go). The apples and plums are picked by volunteers and shared with food share organizations and the P-Patch gardeners. #SeattleWashington#CommunityGardens#PicardoPPatch
Colchicums are some of my favorite autumn flowers. The Waterlily cultivar lives up to its name, floating above the leafy debris with its glowing lavender petals. #Photography#SeattleWashington#OurHouse#OurGarden 📷🏡
Morning dog walk in fall: nice pink Japanese anemones floating above their leaves like butterflies; a colchicum springing up from the leaves, and finally Balor, or One-Eyed Red. #Photography#SeattleWashington#SeattleAutumn 📷🏡