Where to find land for native plantings in urban Eastlake? The ubiqutious planting strip! These underused bits of land, often populated only with sod, standard nursery plants and beauty park, could instead be little parks filled with native plants that attract the insects, birds and wildlife that co-evolved with them.

With the cooperation of the homeowners, we're converting a regular town house parking strip at the corner of E. Lynn St and Moior Ave E. into a native plant garden. The first planting in March 2026, done by almost forty homeowners, neighbors and volunteers,  installed almost 100 native shrubs trees and plants. A second planting this fall will add hundreds of flowers and small plants.  

Stop by in the coming months to see the garden as the plants fill in. We worked with David Hancock of West Seattle Wildscaping to do a wide variety of plants to provide color and texture in all seasons. We’ll use this garden as a laboratory to see what plants do well in this urban envioronment of heated sidewalks, heavy traffic and multiple curious dogs.

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Thanks to the Seattle Neighborhood Matching grant that made this project possible!