Note: Stephanie Barelman is the founder of the Bellevue Native Plant Society. The views expressed are her own. As a conscientious citizen and mother and dreamer on planet Earth, I have become more and more enamored with the garden. The garden holds so many accolades for its beauty, its emotional weightlessness, but what compels me more than ever is the desperation in which nature currently lives- wildlife, both flora and fauna, in the very little free spaces we give it. The garden becomes a piece of resistance, an insistence that room must be made for the other lifeforms that share our cosmic home. I have seen both vitriol from native…