Pre-orders for native plant sale being accepted

The Clallam Conservation District is now accepting pre-orders for its annual Native Plant Sale.

Bare-root tree and shrub seedlings are sold in bundles of 10 and 25, and range in price from $16-$25 per bundle.

Conifer trees for sale include Douglas fir, grand fir, shore pine, Sitka spruce, western hemlock, and western red cedar. Deciduous trees include big leaf maple, Pacific crabapple, red alder, Rocky Mountain maple, and vine maple. Deciduous shrubs include blue elderberry, Indian plum, mock orange, Nootka rose, oceanspray, low Oregon grape, Pacific ninebark, red elderberry, red flowering currant, red osier dogwood, serviceberry, snowberry, thimbleberry, and twinberry. Native pollinator seed packets are also available.

The conservation district conducts the annual plant sale to “provide affordable native plants for wildlife habitat enhancement and environmentally friendly landscaping.”

Plants will be available for pick-up on Feb. 29 at Lazy J Tree Farm, 225 Gehrke Road, Port Angeles. Online ordering is available on the Conservation District’s website at www.clallamcd.org/native-plants or order forms can be printed off and mailed in.

Contact the Conservation District by email at info@clallamcd.org, by phone at 360-775-3747, x5, or visit the district’s office between 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Tuesday-Thursday, at 228 W. First St., Suite H, Port Angeles.