Around Coach Hill
We hiked a loop route around Coach Hill, accessing some green space trails and some Peterson Creek Nature Park Trails. Along the way we stopped to enjoy some wildflowers and flowering shrubs.
Flax filled a hillside off a trail with homes on both sides. They were probably seeded by escape from a garden and are now populating the dry hillside.
Similarly, forget-me-nots were probably seeded and established by seed blown from gardens by winds onto hillsides.
In Peterson Creek alumroot was in bloom in opens paces on the hillsides.
At a trail next to a home a beautiful cornflower was in bloom with its delicate spiralling petals.
I have been tempted to harvest my extra seed in the garden and scatter it in like habitats along favorite trails, but is this ecologically sound? If the plant is native to the area, it would seem to be fine, but not for some endemic varieties and who knows the possible long-term consequences for introduced species?
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