815 SIEVERS-DUECY BLVD 2025-05-05

Since you have concerns about vine maple based on your other sites, you might want to try Douglas Maple, Acer glabrum var. douglasii, instead. It's a good choice of native maple for tough sites like parking lots and has similar size and habit. Douglas Maple, Acer glabrum var. douglasii I Native Plants PNW I don't see the point of Acer rubrum 'Red Rocket', especially planted so close to the building. A better choice for those high -profile spaces near entrances might be one of the fragrant witch hazels like Hamamelis x intermedia 'Diane', planted at least 5' away from the building. They'll give you great fall color and gorgeous flowers in late winter. Great Plant Picks: Unbeatable Plants for the Maritime Northwest Garden To learn more about resilient trees, check out this study. Puget Sound Region I Climate Change Response Framework (forestadaptation.org) and these handouts PUgetSound species handout 1xlPortrait [Updated 2.25.221.pdf (forestadaptation.org) PUgetSoundRegion TreeSpeciesVulnerabilityAssessment Final ForLayout.pdf (forestadaptation.org) Shrubs Symphoriocarpus (snowberry) is a fine native for restoration plantings. But it is a poor choice for ornamental mixed shrub plantings. It tends to form colonies that over time will crowd out its neighbors. You might instead try Pieris japonica'Cavatine', an outstanding compact evergreen shrub and Great Plant Pick. Great Plant Picks: Unbeatable Plants for the Maritime Northwest Garden. Or skip a substitution all together and just plant bigger masses of Rosa rugosa and Philadelphus lewisii. The white flowering Cistus x hybridus Great Plant Picks: Unbeatable Plants for the Maritime Northwest Garden or Cistus x laxus 'SnowWhite' are more resilient choices than Cistus x purpurea for our region. Cistus do not like to be irrigated once established, so be sure to dial the irrigation way back the second year after planting. Note that the little bed off the SE corner of the building contains both rhododendrons and rockroses, and they share an irrigation zone. But these plants do not share water requirements. Since there are other plants in the bed that also need more water than rockroses (like the Erica Great Plant Picks: Unbeatable Plants for the Maritime Northwest Garden), I would substitute the Pieris japonica'Cavatine' noted above for the rock roses in this bed.