Pure Prairie League

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.

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.

Dalea purpurea-Purple Prairie Clover and Nasella tenuisima-Mexican Feather Grass.

Passionate Purple

I had planned to head out to the garden to piddle, but instead I sat down to import images from my camera. Wow, I opened the first image of Dalea purpera. An outstanding landscape form from a native Kansas plant. Check these images out and go get some!

Dalea purperea-Purple Praire Clover with Nasella tenuissima and Perovskia atriplicifolia

 Petals appear from the bottom first.

 With Achillea millefolium 'Terra Cotta'

 Grouped with Nasella tenuissama

Natives gone wild?

GBBD 10.12

It's that time again ladies and gentlemen, Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. As many of you know Carol at May Dream Gardens sponsors this popular meme every month. Be there are be square.
Fall is here in south central Kansas which is still recovering from a drought. I've had to squeeze my irrigation amount, do to economics. However, we received 1.5 inches of nitrogen fixed rainfall (that means rain with lighting), and this will be a plus before winter sets in. So lets begin with my garden.

Welcome to Kansas-Rudebeckia hirta, Salvia farinacea and Nasella tenuissiama.

Rosa 'Noare'

Rosa 'Noare' and Aster novi-belgii 'Wood's Blue'

 Linaria purpurea and Aster laevis

Schizachyrium scoparium 'The Blues' and Salvia 'Indigo Spires'

Artichoke

 Rudebeckia hirts 'Denver'.

Front walk-kind of hard to walk but it sure does smell good. Mostly globe basil (volunteer) and Salvia.

 Front Hell Strip-Yucca rigida, Panicum amarum 'Dewey Blue', Andropogon gerardii, Agastache
foeniculum, Vicea, Nasella tenuisiuma, and Nepeta.

View from other direction.

Ascelepias incarnata. A few seed head before I make like a tree and leaf.

Datura.