Diggin' holes today...

at the Washington Division of Fish and Wildlife office in Spokane with members of the Northeast Chapter of the Washington Native Plant Society. The group secured a $10,000 grant to create a demonstration garden surrounding the government office.

High water use plants traditionally used in urban landscapes were excavated and replaced with water-conserving native species as shown below.

Those are subalpine firs in the foreground, and aspen in the background (click images to enlarge.) The understory will be planted during the year ahead, also using native plants, with the project completed in 2011.