“Everything has to pull its weight around here,” says homeowner Tamara Paulat of her Portland, OR garden. “It is either a native plant that provides a habitat for insects and birds or an ornamental that is non-invasive, adaptable to our area, and provides some sort of benefit for wildlife in the form of food, shelter, seed, or building material.”
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Pictured: Spiraea douglasii with fluffy pink blooms were planted as an alternative to invasive butterfly bush or buddleia. The two small trees, which were there when Paulat bought the house, are Myrica rubra-relatively unknown around the West Coast but common in Japan. She simply pruned them to bring in more light and air circulation. An Acer circinatum (vine maple) in a terra-cotta pot on the front porch echoes both the Spanish influence of the home while being native to the Pacific Northwest.
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