From Forest to Skillet: Edible and Native Plants in the Cross Timbers of Oklahoma. 837 yard species and counting!
Briar likes to eat some of our prairie grasses sometimes, she’s no herd of bison. This winter we’ve been meaning to escalate into a full trim. The weather today was crisp, clear, and not too windy sheltered by the house, so we did the cuts! This is in hopes that we’ll get more species from past seeding events coming up.
Continue reading “02/16/2025 prairie grazing!”
The sun came out this afternoon so we were tempted away from our plant spreadsheets to move some friends around.
Continue reading “02/08/2025 new rain lily!!!”Hardening off is getting indoor grown plants ready for the big world. Sometimes for indoor seedlings I’ll put a fan on them to preview the experience of wind. These ferns haven’t got that treatment yet because we have them in a little container sealed for humidity, but I figured it was time to get them ready for a spring debut into the world.
Continue reading “Baby fern “hardening off” to world”
This is one of our favorite native grasses!
Continue reading “11/24/2024 splitbeard bluestem”
I haven’t been good at blogging lately but Paula rightly insisted I document her harvest!
Continue reading “11/19/2024 lemongrass”
Physalis cinerescens grows wild in the backyard and I’ve started moving cuttings of it to new places.
Continue reading “10/06/2024 wild ground-cherries”I sprinkled seeds around last winter and one came up near the bird bath and blackberries!
Continue reading “09/24/2024 drummond’s aster”We were kindly given seeds of this white flowered wild variety of the native passionvine, from north eastern Oklahoma. Two plants made it and this year one had its first blooms!
Continue reading “08/02/2024 first flowers ever on Passiflora incarnata var. alba”A friend gave us some of her baby partridge peas in the spring and they are growing up and blooming! This species is an annual so hopefully they will come back.
Continue reading “07/28/2024 partridge pea”We had a lot of germination of Indigofera miniata this spring and around five individuals have survived to planting size and then nibbling by yard bunnies (one even grew back!).
Continue reading “07/03/2024 scarlet pea success!”