Seattle Tours

More plants...

Today in the alley behind Fremont Coffee, I snapped this picture of Lemonbalm (Melissa officinalis) and Bedstraw (Galium sp.) hanging out together in the cracks. The owner of the coffeeshop told me that they were left from an herb garden he used to have there; the coffee shop used to be an herbal remedies shop. Now this area has been mostly covered with gravel, to serve as parking for the cafe.

Galium was flowering where I saw it yesterday, near the RR crossing on Shilshole, but today no such luck.