Coast Salish Plant Nursery and Senaqwila Wyss on Coast Salish wildflowers (from 2022 calendar, January to June)

 These images and captions from the Wild Bird Trust/ Coast Salish Plant Nursery 2022 calendar (Maplewood Flats, North Vancouver) offer some beginning teachings on some of the Coast Salish Indigenous plants we have planted in the UBC Orchard Garden.

Senaqwila Wyss, who was a guest teacher at the Orchard Garden's 2018 Summer Institute, curated this calendar. Senaqwila is of Skwxwú7mesh, Tsimshian, Sto:lo, Swiss and Hawaiian descent. Senaqwila and Cease Wyss are ethnobotanists, educators and matriarchs who generously share their extensive knowledge of our plant kin on these

territories. Many of the plants are named here in Skwxwú7mesh Sníchim (Squamish language), Heńqeminem (Musqueam language), English language, and by their Latin Linnean name.

In the UBC Orchard Garden, we have planted the following Coast Salish Indigenous plants, mostly in the  food forest half of the garden:

• Bunchberry
• Kinnikinnick
• Licorice fern
• Nootka rose
• Snowberry
  
• Wild plum
• Highbush cranberry
• Twinberry
• Wild ginger
• Salmonberry
• Thimbleberry
• Woodland strawberry
• Western goldenrod
• 
  Stinging nettle
• Avens
• Coastal gumweed
• Lomatium

• Pearly everlasting
• Western yarrow
• Blackeyed Susan
• Balloon flower
• 
  Nodding onion
• Stonecrop
• Prairie coneflower
• Stinkcurrant
• Baldhip rose
• Serviceweed
• Saskatoon berry
• Salal
• Lingonberry
• Slough sedge
  

...and we have 

•  Fireweed that appeared as a volunteer!