From Forest to Skillet: Edible and Native Plants in the Cross Timbers of Oklahoma. 837 yard species and counting!
I have the green section of the rainbow garden populated with Arkansas yucca, green milkweed, antelopehorns milkweed, whorled milkweed, sand lovegrass, and maybe comet milkweed if any of it survived. I’ve been examining the milkweeds closely lately.
Continue reading “04/20/2024 dry spot green”
Could have found it in the day but I was working!
Continue reading “04/19/2024 after dark find”
We noticed two cacti were unhappy and relocated them. Hopefully it is not too late for them to recover, though one looks dicey.
Continue reading “04/13/2024 cacti and irises”
It got warm suddenly. We got several new plants at a native plant sale yesterday but only planted one in the dark — it’s too warm and windy. We put the other two in this evening. Hopefully the forecast rain tomorrow night actually happens!
Continue reading “04/14/2024 summer suddenly”Good food after a day in the front yard.
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I’ll post some pictures of species we have in the garden that we saw in the wild. But first, eating dinner with The Chef and Paula. I believe Paula made this meal.
Continue reading “04/11/2024 back in Norman”One new, one transplanted!
Continue reading “03/31/2024 sprouts”
The dwarf or Tharp’s spiderwort in our yard started blooming and then I got to see their wild cousins blooming at home in Texas!
Continue reading “03/30/2024 Tharp’s spiderwort!”Native Oxalis volunteers all over our yard but has really created a lovely ground cover in the front yard near the porch. I’ve tentatively identified it as Oxalis stricta.
Continue reading “03/29/2024 oxalis volunteers en masse”
We recently found two patches of Carolina Anemone on unbuilt private land. We got permission from the owners to dig a small amount to spread around town in our yard and others’ yards, as it’s not available commercially.
Continue reading “03/26/2024 Carolina Anemone”