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Silk tassel bush (Garrya elliptica) blooming in the park. Although it doesn't grow natively quite this far north, it thrives in our climate.
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Did I mention it's been foggy the last two days? And it's raining. Here are dewberry (Rubus ursinus) canes trained to grow overhead so I can stare at leaf veination against a white sky.
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Browsing while cruising
I do check out the evergreen huckleberries (Vaccinium ovatum), even in winter. They may be tiny and a bit sour, but they are tasty. They do make nice shrubbery along the sidewalk.
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I think silk tassel bush (Garrya elliptica) is hard to photograph because at least this year the catkins are so plentiful they look more like grayish strings tossed on the shrubs. However, a close up of the male plant's catkins shows a profusion of anthers entangled with each other on a long chain of gray to pink flowers.
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