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NATIVE PLANT
APPRECIATION WEEK CELEBRATION AT KUL KAH HAN
Chimacum,
WA – All are invited to attend a
Native Plant Appreciation Week Celebration, Saturday, May 5, 2007, from 1:30 PM
to 3:30 PM, at Kul Kah Han Native Plant Demonstration Gardens in H J Carroll County
Park, near Chimacum.
Botanist and
native plant expert David Deardorf, Ph. D, will speak at
Linda Landkammer,
the Gardens’ Project Coordinator, says the K K H Gardens mission is to show
homeowners how a wide array of native plants that grow wild on the Olympic
Peninsula flourish in home landscapes using less water and fertilizer than
imports. Native plant traits coupled with natural growing methods make
landscaping ecologically superior. The Gardens demonstrate alternatives to
pesticides and herbicides. Observing how wild plants grow in nature helps one
learn how to match them to tended garden conditions.
After Dr.
Deardorf’s talk, Landkammer and Stewards Ellen Larkin and Lilly Berry, will
conduct an educational walking tour. Your guides will demonstrate how 5
ecosystems of the Olympic Peninsula are represented by the Gardens’ plant
communities: Montane, Sub-Alpine, Meadow,
Sara Mall
Johani, originator and co-founder of Wild Olympic Salmon, named the Gardens to
honor Chief Kul-Kah-Han, the last known Chief of the Chemakum Tribe. He lived
not far from the Gardens’ location in the 1850s, and often used many of the
plant species that now grow there.
The Gardens
are not completed. This work-in-progress depends on volunteers for development
and maintenance. Volunteers work hands-on in this outdoor botanical laboratory
where they learn native plants’ attributes by selecting, planting, and caring
for them. There are opportunities now open for volunteer Stewards who will
focus efforts on specific areas. O
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