This is one of our favorite native grasses!
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09/24/2024 drummond’s aster
I sprinkled seeds around last winter and one came up near the bird bath and blackberries!
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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!
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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.
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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!).
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We put out the summer beans and okra a bit late but the beans are sprouting! (I forgot to look at the okra and I’m not going back out in this heat.)
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Two beautiful but subtle flowers are blooming now including the mysterious Late Figwort!
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More leaves, new flowers!
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I’m taking today and tomorrow off so I hope I can look around the garden a little more.
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As hoped, we got them seeded before rain. They’ve now had several inches of rain to support their summer growth!
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