05/30/2022 afternoon
05/30/2022 holiday Monday
05/27/2022 work picnic at Ruby Grant park
It’s a great little prairie. I heard singing Dickcissel, Field Sparrow, and Painted Bunting, and an Eastern Meadowlark calling. Nice!!
It lives!!! (Coryphantha sulcata)
05/20/2022
2022/05/22 cool morning again
“Traditional” gardening with native plants
I recently got a question about people who were interested in planting native plants but didn’t want a meadow. I searched around online for some nice examples of how you can still do design ideas and structure while using native plants.
- This historic garden is in Delaware but has great examples of a very formal garden using all native plants for their region:.
- Grow Native has some likely more feasible for most of us “formal” garden plans for sun and shade showing how you can use native plants in a non meadow yard setting.
- Another far afield garden but good formal design pics from Chicago.
At our house I have beds with metal edging and rock borders in the front yard, and the meadow/woodland edge/prairie is in the back yard. I would love to see any links y’all have to structured gardens using native plants!