tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79124105216816494552024-03-17T22:03:36.920-05:00Gardening with GreggoPrairie Gardening in my small corner lot in Kansas.greggohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10490422976382424491noreply@blogger.comBlogger173125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912410521681649455.post-60146540354715083142020-07-15T21:20:00.002-05:002020-07-22T20:57:03.461-05:00Flower Girl<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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greggohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10490422976382424491noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912410521681649455.post-14150176510475468762019-07-19T12:45:00.002-05:002019-07-19T12:45:05.718-05:00Ech with Drumsticks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Echinacea pallida with Asclepias tuberosa</div>
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From a few years ago</div>
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Every month on the 15th, Carol at <a href="https://www.maydreamsgardens.com/2018/08/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-august-2018.html">May Dream Gardens</a> shares her blog with windows to see other peoples bloom from their garden. Enjoy!</div>
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Drumstick Allium leftover blooms from July agaisnt the back drop of Nasella, Mexican Feather Grass.</div>
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A choatic mix match of Drumstick Allium, Sedum matrona, seedling Redbud, and Monarda fistulosa.</div>
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Prairie Blazingstar -Liatris pachnostachya with Joe Pye weed in payground.</div>
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Last but not least this video shows the feeding grounds for Monarch butterflies, last count twelve. They really love the Liatris ligulstylus.</div>
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Beginnings: April 2018 after cut down and adding free arborists mulch</div>
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For all you mulch happy gardeners out there I too am a believer. I have always been a disciple of the great mulchers of America. Some would say the Facebook group of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=200375441489&ref=br_rs">The Garden Professors</a> is all about using arborist mulch, you know, the rowdy and stringy chipper mulch from the professional and kind of professional tree trimmers. And yes that seems to be a ongoing subject over there, but I have to admit in my experience that aborist mulch has always been a part of success in my gardening adventures. Back in the day (early 90's) when I first experienced the fruits of free arborist mulch, I was reluctant to use the mulch as it was so stringy and "dirty looking". It had masses of limbs, sticks, stumps, green trimmed foliage and other foul things I care not to mention. However, my arborist friends would deliver in truckloads for free, much to the chagrin of my two young boys who were volunteered into the world of mulch madness. Yes they even gifted me a two wheeled barrow for fathers day. </div>
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One specific load of mulch I remember fondly was from a customer who wanted her cedar firewood ground and taken away, it was the most beautiful pile of mulch I had ever seen. </div>
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Now there has been times when I have have purchased store bought mulch, mostly for garden tours or special visitors coming to the garden, but when you have a garden this size it is expensive for mulch that breaks down eventually. </div>
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Our recent spring weather has been very cool and I had some concern about the emergence of many of the plants in the native plant garden in the hell strip. This was also the first spring in a while that we left the cut down of the previous years foliage around the trimmed plants and added 3-4" of arborist mulch on top of that. But alas all the plants burst out sooner of later. There were some newly fall planted grasses that we were careful in not covering up completely. The images below show the various depths of mulch. So enjoy your mulch madness too!</div>
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Below some man-bagged cedar mulch</div>
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This image is from an area that has not received the arborist mulch yet.</div>
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The mulch wagon full of our town's recycle center free arborist mulch.</div>
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Still have the mulch wagon my boys gave me. The piece of goat panel is used to screen the larger pieces stems out which in turn go to the dog run for packing into the soil.</div>
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Bloom Day 2016.<br />
It's been a while since I've posted as social media seems to take all the spare time these days. I'm somewhat nostalgic writing this blog post as writing them used to consume quite a bit of spare time, nevertheless I always enjoyed completing a post and interacting with other bloggers.<br />
As always the 15th of the month means Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, a meme created by Carol at <a href="http://www.maydreamsgardens.com/">May Dream Gardens</a> where fellow gardeners display their blooms every month.<br />
Also I have a question, what photo editing software are any of you using as Picasa is gone? I wasn't able to edit any of these photos.<br />
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<span style="color: white;">It was nice to see a few Monarch butterflies and bees as I was out taking shots this late afternoon.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: white;">Eutochium maculatum - Gateway Joe Pye Weed</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: white;">A few wide angle shots.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Above looking west from middle of property front entrance.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: white;">Rudebeckia, Echinacea, and Miscanthus 'Morning Light" entrance garden.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Looking East from the driveway. <i>Amsonia , Etrochium, Baptisia, and Panicum Dallas Blues.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">This would be a short list of things blooming today but I must move on. So happy bloom day.</span></div>
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In the last post of <a href="http://greggosgarden.blogspot.com/2015/10/on-farm.html">On the Farm</a> , I discussed my trip to Northwest Oklahoma and my wife's parents farm properties. The image above was taken from the Whorton place as I was more interested in this property since it was converted to the Conservation Reserve Program years ago.<br />
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As you can see the hay bales in the upper left the land has been use as a hay field. It was taken out of the of the CRP program a few years ago. Many Tallgrass species are still present from the original seeding while some more invasive volunteer species have spread into the field from nearby properties such as the Weeping Lovegrass -<i>Eragrostis curvula </i>pictured above. </div>
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This image was taken from the low lying area towards the higher plain. In the lower area where moisture settles from rainfall is present, Weeping Lovegrass<i>, Sorghastrum nutans-</i>Indian Grass<i>, </i>and a lesser amount of <i>Andropogon geradii-</i>Big Bluestem.<i> </i>The higher ground pictured above has more of a rusty brown hue consists mainly of <i>Schizachyrium scoparium-</i>Little Bluestem.<br />
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My original intention to visit this hay meadow was to transplant some grasses and possibly forbs to my own prairie garden in Kansas. The images below represent my selections.<br />
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<i>Eragrostis curvula-</i> Weeping Lovegrass, and the native lovegrass <i>Eragrostis trichodes-</i>Sand Lovegrass.</div>
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greggohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10490422976382424491noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912410521681649455.post-79661222530925195872015-10-24T20:32:00.002-05:002015-10-26T21:49:45.665-05:00On the Farm<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Cindy and I visited her parents last weekend which I enjoyed the fellowship as well as visiting parcels of their farm and pasture lands. The above image is from the "Whorton" place, an 80 (80 acres) of a section. This land was purchased by Cindy's dad, John, for his wife and Cindy's mother Lola Jean. It was a present for Lola for taking care of his mother over a year when she was sick with cancer.<br />
Most parcels are described as 80's (80 acres), quarters (160 acres), half sections (320 acres) and full sections (640 acres) which are a mile square. This area is in far northwestern Oklahoma, with a annual average rainfall of 20-25" a year, with very sandy soils which have low water holding capacity. This visit the sandy soils were very dry, and most of the cultivated land is planted with cereal wheat which is in dire need of moisture.<br />
I have hunted quail on this particular property for most of my adult life and always enjoy coming back and reminiscing.<br />
Most of the land parcels are named after people whom previously owned the property or the leaser if the land is leased. Almost all of the quarters in the area have some kind of oil wells which have cattle guards so the oil maintenance workers (called pumpers) can check their wells. This image above serves as the entrance with a cattle guard which allows entrance without a gate but keeps cattle from leaving. Also the image above shows a old corral with a windmill and stock tank. The land is primarily tallgrass prairie plants planted during the Conservation Reserve Program 20-30 years ago when the federal government paid farmers to take marginal cultivated land out of production and plant into prairie grasses and legumes and to be be left still. Recently many farmers have took these properties out of the program and replanted them or began cutting the prairie for hay which my in-laws have done. This land contains mainly Big(<i>Andropogon</i>)and Little Bluestem (<i>Schizachyrium</i>) mainly on the high ground, Switchgrass (<i>Paniucum</i>) in the low areas which hold more moisture, and Sand Lovegrass (<i>Erogrostis</i>) which was planted across the road and has blown in and populated the old CRP plantings. The Love grass is not as beneficial for cattle as the Bluestems and Switchgrass. In the areas which are not planted in CRP the old short grass prairie plants are more prevalent such as Buffalograss, Gramma grasses, native <i>Eragrostis</i> and various forbs. Native <i>Artemisias</i> are prevelant along ditchbanks with wild plum thickets and annual Buckwheat prevalent this time of year.<br />
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<i>Artemisia frigada-</i>Fringed sagebrush with <i>Ereigonum annum-</i>Annual Buckwheat, <i>Quercus marilandice-</i>Blackjack Oak and <i>Helianthus spp-</i>sunflower.<em style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;"> </em><br />
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greggohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10490422976382424491noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912410521681649455.post-33790680576371227762015-07-13T15:06:00.000-05:002015-07-13T15:06:01.449-05:00Pure Prairie League<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Pure Prairie League was/is one of my favorite country rock bands from the 70's just as the new prairie garden is maturing into my favorite garden area.<br />
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As most garden photographers understand the morning time period is a great time to 'shoot' the garden as well as view it from a golden standpoint.<br />
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<i>Dalea purpurea-</i>Purple Prairie Clover and <i>Nasella tenuisima-</i>Mexican Feather Grass.</div>
greggohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10490422976382424491noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912410521681649455.post-8987677340114565862015-02-15T14:20:00.001-06:002015-02-15T14:20:15.290-06:00At the Waterhole<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Banditos have returned to our stock tank watering hole. Cedar Waxwings are providing the entertainment around the garden these days as the Western Hackberry trees(<i>Celtis occidentalis) </i>are providing much needed berries to the Robins, Starlings, and Waxwings.<br />
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greggohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10490422976382424491noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912410521681649455.post-83423717338181350162014-10-01T21:33:00.002-05:002014-10-01T21:33:48.146-05:00Maxed Out<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hmmm.....doesn't look too abnormally large.</div>
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That's a pretty normal size of things.</div>
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That's a little more on the maximum size.</div>
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Bam! Yes, that's maximum. 9-10' Tall! Yes these plants are taller than the stop sign! whoops. They are impressive, however they are a little large and 'weedy' looking for me and for my small piece of property. The plant? <i>Helianthus maximiliani -</i>Maximilian Sunflower. I planted some by seed two years ago in a eastern exposure and the plants stayed pretty confined with late season interest that I enjoyed. This spring many seedlings were popping up every where including these plants which I allowed to grow while removing many more nearby. The size of the plant and texture of the foliage mixed in with the similar foliage of Western Ironweed created a combination that really isn't pleasant to the eye and they bloom so late.</div>
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It looks like a glob and most of the foliage has been eaten by lacebugs. So most of these are gone as I write this. I left a colony near the house and one plant on the right.</div>
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The blooms are impressive and the bees and ants love them.</div>
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Yellow seems seems to be the color of choice for natives in my neck of the woods.<br />
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<i>Rudebeckia subtomentosa-</i>Sweet Black-Eyed Susan with <i>Eupatorium purpurea-</i> Sweet Scented Joe Pye Weed.</div>
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I suppose if it wasn't for GBBD I would barely post at all. So thank you Carol at <a href="http://www.maydreamsgardens.com/2014/06/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-june-2014.html">May Dream Gardens</a> for hosting my monthly reminder.<br />
It has been a relatively slow to bloom spring with alternate warm and cool weather this year. When I began planting my new perennial native bed in late April the temperature extremes fluctuated from 38 to 99 in two days. Now on this fathers day I am concerned about some newly planted natives I just received last week and our planned vacation next week and how they will survive while we're gone. Hopefully my watering fiend neighbor will do a fine job.<br />
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Hollyhock in the Veggie Garden.<br />
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<i>Mimosa quadrivalvis </i>- Catclaw Sensitive Plant</div>
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This plant really isn't too impressive until it blooms these round sparkling blooms. It reminds me of a woodland plant for some reason but it is prevalent in many prairies. I found this plant in a vacant industrial lot that I have derived many natives before. Kids would be interested as the leaves fold up when touched.</div>
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<i>Mimosa quadrivalvis L. var. nuttallii</i></div>
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<b>Height: </b>1-2 feet tall</div>
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<b>Family: </b>Fabaceae - Bean Family</div>
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<b>Flowering Period: </b>May-September</div>
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<b>Stems: </b>Sprawling, 1-6 feet long, strongly ribbed, covered with hooked pickles.</div>
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<b>Leaves: </b>Alternate, stalked.</div>
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<b>Inflorescences: </b>Heads, dense, spherical, 3/4 to 1 inch in diameter, talks 1 to 3 inches long, in leaf axis.</div>
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<b>Flowers: </b>Numerous, tiny, sessile, pink to lavender, calyces minute, 5-lobed, petals 5, united; stamens 8-12, filaments pink, anthers yellow.</div>
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<b>Fruits: </b>Pods, linear, 1 to 5 inches long, strongly ribbed, prickly; seeds namy, nearly square, smooth.</div>
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<b>Habitat: </b>Prairies, open woodlands, ravines, and roadsides, most abundant in dry, rocky or sandy soils.</div>
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<b>Distribution:</b> Throughout Kansas.</div>
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<b>Comments: </b>The leaflets are sensitive to touch and will fold together when disturbed. The tiny flowers are rarely seen due to the overshadowing stamens.</div>
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*Information courtesy of Mike Haddock Kansas Wildflowers and Grasses website.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>the Good</b></span></div>
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Tulips, spreading phlox, and the Eastern Redbud (<i>Cercis canadensis)</i> tree are the only plants in full bloom presently. I definitely need to add more tulips in the coming years as I have been extremely pleased with the performance of this variety of tulip. I have used a different planting method to increase performance.</div>
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You may ask what is bad about this area of the garden. Everything is green and growing, right? Yes, the <i>Allium</i> and <i>Verbascum</i> are doing well. But what is the green vine going gang busters during this cool and late spring? Yes, you probably guessed it, <i>Convolvulus arvensis, </i>Field Bindweed.<i> </i></div>
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I swear if there ever is evil in the plant world, this one is it. I'm curious how these new Perennial Movement gardens keep these noxious weeds and tree seedlings under control.<br />
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The plant in the lower area resembling chrysanthemum leaves is a Kansas native, <i>Ambrosia psilostachya, </i>Western Ragweed. This one snuck in with some native <i>Delphinums </i>I planted. Spreads by rhizomes, very prolific. This one I should be able to dig out with time.<br />
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The cool season grass above reminds me a lot of yellow nutsedge in appearance. However its a little early for that lovely weed. I believe this to be an <i>Eragrostis </i>that I planted from seed, and it has spread by rhizomes throughout this part of the garden and into the middle of plants.<br />
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<i>Ulmus amercana-</i>American Elm. Whats so ugly you may ask. Those are not new leaves developing on the limbs but clusters of seedheads. Thousands of seeds, there may be a few seedlings coming up in the mulch this year. Pure ugliness.<br />
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Former variegated <i>Yucca. </i>Fifteen below temperatures take care of zone envy dreams quickly. Mush ugly.<br />
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This photo above shows the movement of six tall grass species in the corner hell strip to increase visibility on that traffic corner.</div>
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Before-January 2014</div>
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April 16, 2014<br />
No they are not gopher holes, but transplant excavations. I moved a 8' crape myrtle in the first photo. The second photo involved moving <i>Panicum </i>to the photo above (bottom corner). The new construction creates quite a bit of ugliness. Soon the beds will be full of new native plants and everyone will be happy. Lawn Gone as <a href="http://penick.net/">Pam Penick</a> @ Digging would say!<br />
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greggohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10490422976382424491noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912410521681649455.post-42025955315549892112014-01-28T14:58:00.000-06:002014-01-28T14:58:07.009-06:00My new Oudolf/Kingsbury inspired Hellstrip<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Yes, inspiration comes less frequently in my middle to late age. However, after reading<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Planting-New-Perspective-Noel-Kingsbury/dp/1604693703"> 'Planting a New Perspective" by Noel Kingsbury and Piet Outdolf </a>, I've been "blown up" with inspiration. The information in this book is very informative for those who have wanted more conceptual information on the "New Perennial Movement". I'm interested to see how all this pans out. I'm sure most of you have read reviews about this book as well as seen many Oudolfs/Kingsbury designed gardens so I won't bore you with more details.<br />
This inspiration has powered me enough to design the unfinished west side hell strip which currently is mostly a Fescue lawn area, a few perennials and last but not least a large Silver Maple (which the wood borers are devouring and will be removed). I got the old canary tracing paper out (yellow dog) and began to sketch over the CAD created base plan. So much fun, it brought back old memories from college and my early professional career, installations during the day and designs at night.<br />
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As you can see soil preparation has began with gravely soil, compost and native fill soil added from all my unfinished garden projects. Yes, I will admit my propensity to start many projects at once, it's just that when you start one project details arise which create new projects. Evidently my perfectionism and artistic mind leads me to many different avenues <strike>(rabbit holes)</strike>. </div>
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These are photos of my sketches of the planting plan: first one is the planting plan</div>
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Second one is a rendering of flower and foliage color:</div>
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So now the next step is to scour the internet for plants and transplant many from existing inventory on hand. Looks like a busy time ahead, hope to have it completed by my 60th birthday this August. Shalom.</div>
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Les at <a href="http://atidewatergardener.blogspot.com/2013/12/my-ten-favorite-photos-from-2013.html">A Tidewater Garden</a> blog publishes his Top Ten Images of the year this time every year. It gives many of us in the garden blogging realm reason to follow his lead. Go to his blog and leave a comment as well as a link to your own favorite images of the year.<br />
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This image of a Cedar Waxwing was taken through a dirty sunroom window in April. A large group of these feeding on Hackberry berries and drinking from the stock tank frequented my viewfinder. The background hue greatly contributed to the harmony of the above photo. The bird looks so majestic in this pose. In other poses they remind me of ornery bandits.<br />
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In June, behold my water lily 'Alaska' revealed its first bloom in the stock tank. I painted the bottom of the tank black to increase the reflection value.</div>
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Also in June a visit from my granddaughter and a photo from the front hell strip.<br />
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Another June image takes me to a small town Aline, Oklahoma to visit my in-laws during wheat harvest. This old feed store is a very similar site we see in many small rural communities, rural decay. This was taken from my iPhone.<br />
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It was a very hot that day, and granddaughter, Mollie the border collie, and I head back to the homestead.<br />
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Speaking of the dog days of summer, August with my wife Cindy, adopted grandson Sydney in the shade garden.<br />
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August Buckeye butterfly on Liatris ligustylus.<br />
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And to close: from September's Monarch migration.<br />
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Enjoy and share, Happy New Year to you!<br />
Greggo, and yes this is Kansas, Toto.<br />
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greggohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10490422976382424491noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912410521681649455.post-89199499566430036552013-12-03T20:01:00.001-06:002013-12-03T20:01:18.755-06:00Heath Aster-Symphyotrichum ericoides<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I haven't posted in nearly two months, and I sleep a lot more than I used too. Ha. I'm afraid my strength is waning as I approach the big six-o. Funny, my mind seems ok. Or at least I think so. It seems with the advent of social media my blog posts have decreased and my social media post have decidedly increased proportionally. I suppose I may be succumbing to the instant gratification. Na! Just lazy.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> Photo above taken October 14</i></span><br />
<b>Heath Ast<i>er-</i></b><span dir="auto"><i>Symphyotrichum ericoides</i></span><br />
<span dir="auto"><span style="font-size: small;">This aster is one of our local and state natives. It seems it is quite prevalent throughout the nation . It was not my intention to plant it originally, as this particular aster arrived with a Big Bluestem transplant from a industrial vacant lot. You can vaguely see the seed head of the bluestem above inside the aster. Upon observing the initial growth in the spring I was hesitant to adopt the newly risen treasure. The foliage greatly resembled kochia which I dreaded to pull as a kid in our alley way in Wyoming. I used to call it a tumbleweed, as it had a long taproot which broke off and would blow around and it was impossible to pull out when the ground was dry in summer. But alas I was anxious to observe what growth pattern would evolve.</span><i> </i></span><br />
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This photo bove shows two more Heath Aster tag-a-along plants, one came in with Indiangrass and the other with poppy mallow.<br /><object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/Qk4qliA-_Mc/0.jpg"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Qk4qliA-_Mc?version=3&f=user_uploads&c=google-webdrive-0&app=youtube_gdata" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Qk4qliA-_Mc?version=3&f=user_uploads&c=google-webdrive-0&app=youtube_gdata" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div>
The video from myiPhone above was taken in late October, the Heath Aster with all the daisy type blooms was loaded with hundreds of pollinators. My associate gardener enjoyed following the butterflies around him. This aster plant had been trimmed like a hedge twice during the summer, and as you compare this plant to those you see in natural environments it is considerably larger.<br />
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<tr><td class="bodyText"><span class="bodyText"><em>Symphyotrichum ericoides</em></span> (L. ) G.L. Nesom
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<tr><td><span class="bodyText">[=<em>Aster ericoides</em> L.]</span></td></tr>
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<td class="bodyText">Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas</td>
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<td><span class="bodyText">Perennial</span></td>
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<td class="bodyText"><b>Height:</b> 1-3 feet</td>
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<td class="bodyText"><b>Family:</b> Asteraceae - Sunflower Family</td>
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<td><span class="bodyText"><b>Flowering Period: </b> September,October</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="210"><span class="label">Also Called:</span></td><td> </td><td valign="top"><span class="bodyText">White aster, many-flowered aster.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="210"><span class="label">Stems:</span></td><td> </td><td valign="top"><span class="bodyText">Ascending or erect to almost prostrate, few to many, often clustered, slender, stiff, much-branched, rough hairy above.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="210"><span class="label">Leaves:</span></td><td> </td><td valign="top"><span class="bodyText">Alternate,
simple, sessile or slightly clasping, linear to linear-lanceolate, 1/2
to 2 inches long, less than 1/4 inch wide, rigid, rough; margins entire;
tips pointed; branch leaves much smaller and crowded; most basal and
lower stem leaves absent at flowering.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="210"><span class="label">Inflorescences:</span></td><td> </td><td valign="top"><span class="bodyText">Panicles of numerous, densely crowded heads, primarily on 1 side of arching branches.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="210"><span class="label">Flowers:</span></td><td> </td><td valign="top"><span class="bodyText">Heads
cylindric to bell-shaped, less than 1/2 inch across; bracts strongly
overlapping, tipped with bristles; ray florets 10-18, white or rarely
pinkish; disk florets 5-14, corollas yellowish to reddish purple.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="210"><span class="label">Fruits:</span></td><td> </td><td valign="top"><span class="bodyText">Achenes, small, appressed-hairy, purplish brown, tipped with white, hair-like bristles, enclosing small, silky seed.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="210"><span class="label">Habitat:</span></td><td> </td><td valign="top"><span class="bodyText">Dry open prairies, disturbed sites, pastures, and roadsides.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="210"><span class="label">Distribution:</span></td><td> </td><td valign="top"><span class="bodyText">Throughout Kansas.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="210"><span class="label">Toxicity:</span></td><td> </td><td valign="top"><span class="bodyText">Known to accumulate selenium, but livestock rarely consume it.</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="210"><span class="label">Comments:</span></td><td> </td><td valign="top"><span class="bodyText">This
is the most common Kansas aster. It grows in colonies and is drought
hardy, with roots that descend 3 to 8 feet. Heath aster is one of the
last plants to remain in flower in the autumn. Heath aster lowers the
quality of prairie hay.*</span></td></tr>
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Obviously this plant has a place in any Native Garden. Check it out!<br />
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*All plant information above taken from <a href="http://www.kswildflower.org/index.php">kswildflower.org.</a> from the KState Library.<br />
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greggohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10490422976382424491noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912410521681649455.post-22935661453534251182013-10-01T20:25:00.002-05:002013-10-01T20:25:14.817-05:00Monarch Happiness<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This Monarch has been around for a couple of weeks. I'm sure it was born(?) in the garden. So pure and unblemished.<br />
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Two to three days later my son was visiting and noticed a "worm" moving along our back retaining wall. I looked closer and saw that it was a Monarch caterpillar. Say what? Well of course all my milkweeds were planted in the front and side gardens. This is the first time I've seen larva feeding on Honeydew milkvine. Finally there is a reason for Honeydew Milkvine, one of the worse noxius weeds in the garden. Amazing. Soon I moved them to the Swamp Milkweed. A few days after that I found a chrysalis on a plant tray, not far from the same spot. </div>
greggohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10490422976382424491noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912410521681649455.post-80960350581703936362013-09-15T22:15:00.000-05:002013-09-15T22:16:19.875-05:00A Broad Bloom Day View <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It's the 15th day of the month and that means it's time to share blooms from the garden. I've decided to share a larger view of the garden this month.<br />
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This image was taken from the front entry sidewalk into the morning sun. This is a raised circular stone herb garden hidden by <i><span class="st">Ocimum × citriodorum-</span></i><span class="st">Lemon Basil, </span><span class="st"><i><span class="st">Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'karl foerster'- </span></i><span class="st">Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grass, <i>Cedrus atlantica-</i>Blue Atlas Cedar, <i>Echinacea purpurea</i> seedheads in the foreground, </span></span><span class="st"><span class="st"><i><span class="sciname">Aster novae-angliae</span> 'Purple Dome' -</i> Purple Dome Aster and <i>Rosa -</i>Flower Carpet Red Rose to the far right.</span></span><br />
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<span class="st"><span class="st">Prairie garden in front of my residence. A Silver Maple once stood where the tall grass is now, <i>Panicum virgatum -</i>Dallas Blues switchgrass and <i>Panicum amarum- </i>Dewey Blue switchgrass. The tall vegetation about to bloom is </span></span><span class="st"><span class="st"></span></span><i><span class="st">Helianthus maximiliani-</span></i><span class="st">Maximillian Sunflower which stands at about 8 foot. The bed is elevated as I added soil around the maple tree stump.</span></div>
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<span class="st">Near the stop sign </span><span class="st"><span class="st"><i>Panicum virgatum -</i>Dallas Blues switchgrass as background, </span></span><br /><i><span class="st">Helianthus maximiliani-</span></i><span class="st">Maximillian Sunflower in middleground, and <i>Euphorbia marginata- </i>Snow on the Mountain in the foreground.</span></div>
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<span class="st"><i> </i>Dallas Blues seedheads along with a seedhead from Indian Grass-<i>Sorghastrum nitans </i>and <i>Agastache 'Blue Fortune'.</i></span></div>
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How does that grab you?<i> Nymphaea </i> 'Alaska' hardy waterlily.</div>
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When I was attending Oklahoma State University our faculty would often bring in guest speakers on a wide variety of subjects. One speaker was a well known Oklahoma City Landscape Architect: Tommy Roberts. If my memory serves me correctly (this was in 1978), Mr. Roberts had a few trademarks he generally used in all his designs. The one trademark I remember the most was that all his pools were designed with dark bottoms. This created much visual depth and surface reflection. Night lighting was exceptional. The image above was taken over my stock tank pool which I painted black before installation. </div>
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greggohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10490422976382424491noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912410521681649455.post-37643076436518472502013-09-02T17:58:00.000-05:002013-09-02T18:10:49.043-05:00 Liatris ligulistylis <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Rocky Mountain Blazing Star or Meadow Blazing Star-<i>Liatris ligulistylis </i>is starring in the garden this month. As those of you whom grow this unique plant in the native garden ,it is an exceptional attractant to butterflies. This particular plant is dear to me as I raised it from seed purchased from Prairie Moon Nursery. It resembles many of the local prairie <i>Liatris</i> blooming at peak throughout Kansas. Native Kansas <i>Liatris </i>include <i><a href="http://www.kswildflower.org/flower_details.php?flowerID=60">L.aspera</a>, <a href="http://www.kswildflower.org/flower_details.php?flowerID=61">L.punctata,</a><a href="http://www.kswildflower.org/flower_details.php?flowerID=353">L. pycnostachya Michx.</a>,</i><a href="http://www.kswildflower.org/flower_details.php?flowerID=62"> </a>and <i><a href="http://www.kswildflower.org/flower_details.php?flowerID=62">Liatris squarrosa,</a></i><a href="http://www.kswildflower.org/flower_details.php?flowerID=62">.</a><br />
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This particular day the Monarch and the Buckeye butterflies were jousting for the best perching spot and its sweet nectar.<br />
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Even honey bees like getting into the act.<br />
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I've noticed Liatris in many different planting combinations recently which provide a nice contrast to plants such as <i>Nasella tenuissima(</i>Mexican Feather Grass). Get some!<br />
For those wanting to see other native plants in focus go to the<a href="http://www.clayandlimestone.com/2013/08/wildflower-wednesday-hardy-blue-mist.html"> Wildflower Wednesday</a> meme hosted by Gail.</div>
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Name for a dynamic duo? Super hero's? Cartoon characters, or Indian tribe names? Nope. Super prairie grasses. <i>Schizachyrium scoparium-</i>Little Bluestem and <i>Andropogon geradii-</i>Big Bluestem or Turkeyfoot.<br />
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<i>Schizachyrium scoparium '</i>the Blues'<i> - </i>Little Bluestem</div>
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Last year the Kansas legislature named Little Blue the state grass. During this time the Native Plant Society of Kansas, which was instrumental in achieving this goal, provided funds for educational material to be used for speakers and also for schools. The school materials are being used to inform children of the importance of these prairie grassed in the ecosystem and history of Kansas. </div>
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<i>Andropogon</i> <i>geradii </i>Vitam<i> - </i>Big Bluestem, Turkeyfoot</div>
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Turkey foot got its nickname from the native Americans. Most people know it as Big Bluestem. This particular plant is well over 7' tall and was rescued from a vacant industrial lot. It is located on my corner hell strip. Right plant in wrong plant, so after this image was taken I cut it down to three foot along with everything else in the bed. There will be movement this winter. This grass populates a large part of the Kansas Flint Hills and is outstanding forage for grazing cattle as well as seed for wildlife.</div>
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The shape of the seedheads resembles a turkey foot.</div>
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