I’m a week late for Native Plant Appreciation Week (404 now for some inexplicable reason), but I am hoping I can still participate, with my minor contribution:
Left to right, that is generic bark (boring), Physocarpus Opulifolius - Gold’s Common, and Ribes Sanguineum Alba - White Flowering Currant. I’m going to plant these in the front yard, around the start of the downward slope that is such a bitch to mow. I hope to eventually replace the entire slope with tiers of plants that require infrequent maintenance, instead of this hell-that-is-grass. Heh.
Edit: May 14: 
May 14th, 2006 at 8:30 am
Rockin’. The missus wants to redo the whole front yard with native grasses and plants Some Day.
In the meantime, we’re going to head out to the community garden to plant tomatoes as soon as we finish our toast.
May 14th, 2006 at 9:09 pm
I haven’t decided what veggies and fruits I’ll plant, if any. I’m particularly lazy, so I’d probably end up with a lot of produce rotting on the vine, heh. If we had a community garden, I think I’d totally participate. I don’t know any of my neighbors, they just think of me as “that crazy guy that digs holes”.
May 15th, 2006 at 8:05 am
http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/neighborhoods/ppatch/
May 15th, 2006 at 8:14 am
Yeah, Seattle’s got a lot of them, and they’re pretty neat. Des Moines is a significantly smaller town. Many (most?) or our city parks are closed “due to budget cuts”, so says the signs. Heh.