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A walk around the Northwest block

 

Regular readers of TimeOut are probably used to seeing our walk reports from San Diego. Because we were in Washington last week, we missed those walks, but got in a few strolls around completely new neighborhoods with baffling flora everywhere. I'd like to share some of those oddities now:

This sculpture is apparently retelling a Native American tale with salmon and wolf coming ashore. The Mighty Columbia River is in the background.

I used a clever feature of my phone to identify the unknown flowers. These are Grapeleaf Anemone. 



This is a very happy bee on Clematis flammula or fragrant virgin's bower



Here is Coreopsis verticillata whorled tickseed



We thought this was sage, but learned it was originally known as Perovskia atriplicifolia which then was changed to Salvia yangii or commonly called Russian sage



Strangely known as Lonicera tatarica or Tatarian honeysuckle (invaded Europe when the Tatars did?)



Platycodon grandiflorus aka Balloon flower because before it opens the petals form a ball (see top left)



This one is Alcea rosea, also called the Common Hollyhock



This is a hibiscus flower, Hibiscus syriacus or Rose of Sharon. The bee stayed in there for 4-5 minutes, stumbling around in the complex flower structure



A typical jumble of plants found in many of the yards in Wenatchee. The flowers ae Cosmos bipinnatus or Garden Cosmos or Mexican Aster



Yellow flowers here are Daciphora (or Potentilla)  fruticosa or Shrubby cinquefoil. I hadn't realized that botanists fought over such assignments and regularly shifted names around.



Cornus Florida is next, also known as flowering dogwood.



Hemerocallis liloasphodelus is a real mouthful, so most people call it a yellow day lily.



Berberus aquifolium, commonly called the Oregon grape or barberry.



Pyracanta coccinea, the scarlet firethorn famously used as decoration at Christmas time (at least in my youth)

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