Healing Gardens

Our biggest accomplishment was to become acquainted with and familiar with our wetland. The first day working at the site was awkward and the space was hard to navigate, we also didn’t know any of the plants that called that area home. Now we are able to identify around twenty different plants. We have become more comfortable noticing when a plant shouldn’t be in a certain area and where a plant is coming in and overcrowding.  We both did some pruning and weeding of horsetail, which had made its way throughout the whole site. Derek made some horsetail, yarrow, rosehip hair wash with some of the plants at the site. Through doing research about the wetland community we learned about what kinds of wetlands are in Puget Sound and some of the problems and threats posed for them.