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Coulee Country Collections Series
Coulee Country Collections Series
In the shrub-steppe of eastern Washington bloom beautiful wildflowers to enjoy on the hikes through the semi-arid landscape of sagebrush, rabbitbrush, and the beginnings of the Ponderosa Pine forests of the Okanogan Highlands. Inspired by the wildflowers on our local and daily walks with our dog, Guthrie, I've created this series of collections based on the wildflowers of Coulee Country.
The series of collections together on Spoonflower: Coulee Country. Separate collections linked in design information below.
Note: I've just begun the documentation; this page will grow like wildflowers!
The Design:
The shrub-steppe's own snow buckwheat dances in the autumn breeze, it's white flowers form whorls with tepals that turn a bit pink in September while the hairy leaves balance at its base. The delicate tepals scatter with the leaves into a pattern on several background colors: light teal, rose, peach-pink, dusty yellow, and deep autumn brown. Both a striped and a gingham pattern augment all except the autumn brown. See the Snow Buckwheat Collection on Spoonflower.
The Design:
Hear the buzz of a small sunflower bee dancing from sunflower to sunflower above the arrow-shaped leaves. On one pattern, the leaves and flower form a trail across the yellow textured background, while another pattern finds the blossoms and leaves separating and dancing, probably to the humming melody of the little bee.
To continue the pattern separations, another pattern scatters yellow petals and the other pattern scatters seeds or circular disk flowers from the sunflower’s center disk.
Complete the collection with yellow gingham or choose a green stripe on the textured yellow background. Or enjoy a wall hanging of the scientific botany poster or 2025 calendar.
Curycup Gumweed
Curlycup Gumweed
Sketch in Ogee Shape
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The Design:
This wildflower, Curlycup Gumweed, its interesting cup buds, the jagged thin leaves, and the quail tracks inspired the coordinating illustrations. Walking through a dry coulee beneath basalt walls from the ancient floods of the glacial age, foot-tall clumps of tiny sunflowers smile up at you all along the path in our semiarid shrub-steppe. It’s the clump shape that inspired the ogee shape of the design, with many sunflowers and cup-like buds growing among the slim, jagged leaves. Indeed, even when the sun hides behind clouds, this little flower brings sunshine to the walk anyway, so inspiring the dark background. Throughout the many clumps of flowers, quail tracks display on the path the birds take in and out of the path of the growing sunflowers that love the human-disturbed soil to start another plant. See the Curlycup Gumweed Collection on Spoonflower.
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