Native Plants for Wild Life in Whatcom

Narrow-leaf Fireweed

A funny thing you might not know about me is I love organized databases. Which is why I am beyond excited to share with you possibly the greatest resource I have come across… The Audubon Native Plants Database.

Who doesn’t want to see birds frolicking around their home by growing native plants? When I own a home you best believe I’ll be planting these Audubon recommended plants for Bellingham:

• Ash-Leaf Maple

• Beaked Hazelnut

• Big Sagebrush

• Bitter Cherry

• Blood Currant

• Bluebell-of-Scotland

• Cascade Oregon-Grape

• Cascara False Buckthorn

• Choke Cherry

• Common Yarrow

• Creambush

• Creeping Snowberry

• Crimson Columbine

• Grouseberry

• Holly-Leaf Oregon Grape

• Narrow-Lead Fireweed

• Nodding Onion

• Nootka Rose

• Orange Honeysuckle

• Oregon White Oak

• Pacific Bleedinghearts

• Pacific Flowering Dogwood

• Pacific Madrone

• Paper Birch

• Quaking Aspen

• Red Alder

• Red Elder

• Rocky Mountain Juniper

• Rocky Mountain Maple

• Salal

• Salmon Raspberry

• Saskatoon Service-Berry

• Scarlet Skyrocket

• Scouler’s Willow

• Spotted Touch-Me-Not

• Sulphur-Flower Wild Buckwheat

• Vine Maple

• Virginia Strawberry

• Western Arborvitae

• Western Hemlock

• Western Sword Fern

• Western Thimble-Berry

• White Sagebrush

• White-Tip Clover

All I did was pop in a zip code and voila! An interactive, database informing me of the Audubon’s 45 recommended plants for Whatcom County which I listed above. Plus, the 296 other native plant options, and local places to purchase those plants!

According to the website these annuals, shrubs, and trees could help attract the following native birds:

• Cardinals & Grosbeaks

• Chickadees & Titmice

• Crows & Jays

• Finches

• Hummingbirds

• Mockingbirds & Thrashers

• Nuthatches

• Orioles

• Sparrows

• Thrushes

• Vireos

• Waxwings

• Wood Warblers

• Woodpeckers

• Wrens

Let’s plant all the native plants!

I am in LOVE with the Audubon experts. I also have to give props to our local experts over at the North Cascades Audubon Society, who I consistently see putting on events, meetings, and being out in the community. Plus, they have the coolest meeting location — John M. Edson Hall of Birds.

If you want to learn more about Native Plants and North American Birds here are the most magical resources from The Audubon:

• Audubon’s Native Plants Database

• Guide to North American Birds