First mason bees have emerged

Go girls!  The men will be out soon after.

Thornless Blackberries

Absolutely delicious.  No thorns!  Tough plant!  Wow.

Combo #1

Thimble berry daylillies!

Hemerocallis

I wonder how these could be preserved? So crisp and nectary!  Yay daylillies:)

Strawberry!

It's totally awesome to share the first strawberry with Tessa.  On this steep, south facing slope, I think they are ripening early!  

Yum!

Here is the plant, surrounded by bind weed.  This slope needs all of the binding it can get as it used to be shaded by cedars and it's now exposed to the elements.

Berberis Darwinii in bloom

These flower, once pollinated, will make tasty berries.

Ferns

Bracken ferns are unfurling their fiddle heads.  Aquilinium esculent in.  Don't eat these raw.  The should be blanched and soaked in water for a couple hours and then fried.