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#251 |
WG Fundraising Coordinator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Kentucky
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Thank you ellenwright, what a nice thing to say!
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#252 |
WG Fundraising Coordinator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Kentucky
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Goldenrod holding court. A stray volunteer garden phlox still blooming. One of the Ladies' tresses, almost ran over it with the mower. The deep purple of ironweed. Trumpet honeysuckle 'Magnifica' not showing signs of retiring.
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#253 | |
Alternate POM Judge
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Maryland
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#254 |
WG Fundraising Coordinator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Kentucky
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These are all from our property. We "maintain" the field, about 4 acres by mowing paths, trying to remove the invasives like Japanese honeysuckle and multiflora rose, and brushhogging every three years to keep the woodies down. That's where the goldenrod, ironweed, butterflyweed etc. live.
I also started a prairie garden four years ago New pocket prairie garden project It took about three years to get established. I also started a mostly native terrace garden last year, renovating a mostly non-native garden. New terrace garden project Other than those two garden borders I've planted various native shrubs, trees, ferns, grasses and forbs scattered around the acre or so around the house. I'm trying to get a small woodland area going now. That one may be the most challenging. I've had to smother invasive plants, mostly Japanese stiltgrass, with chopped leaves before trying to plant anything in there. The area was degraded, the builders used it as a dump for tile, broken brick, etc. After we cleaned that up we've been trying to build up the soil with leaf mold. Now I have a little corner with ferns, wild geranium, wild phlox, celandine poppy, bowman's root, etc. |
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#255 | |
Alternate POM Judge
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Maryland
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I think I have Japanese stilt grass also. I have been trying to identify it for sure. Are there any native grasses that look like Japanese stiltgrass? I don't like to get rid of anything until I can identify it. |
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WG Prize & Gift Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Michigan
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#257 | |
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Wisconsin
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http://wisplants.uwsp.edu/scripts/de...?SpCode=CIRDIS Pasture Thistle (Cirsium discolor)
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#258 |
Alternate POM Judge
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Maryland
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This is a very tall aster. I hope it is native because I love it. So do the butterflies and bees. What butterfly did I capture? I need to learn to id butterflies. thanks!
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#259 |
WG Fundraising Coordinator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Kentucky
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Beautiful capture ellenw! That looks like a Painted Lady butterfly. I don't know what the aster is but it's beautiful too!
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#260 | |
WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Although I think you are a lot farther along than I, we seem to be approaching our properties in similar ways. I have a very small area that I smothered with wood chips about two years ago. I've since added a selection of native wildflowers hoping to create a kind of meadow. I have a lot of first year seedlings of wildflowers and some little bluestem grass to add still--they were supposed to go in last month. I figure next year it will begin to really fill in, then the following year, perhaps it will be pretty well established. I'm still adding shrubs to various spots...and I have plans to add many more along the slopes and hedgerow areas...and bordering the back of my pond (once I get it installed!). My woodland project seems to be a little stalled since I lost one or two of the few good-sized trees in that area. After hiking with havalotta and Equilibrium in some natural woodlands and later a pretty much intact strip of woodland where I work, I realize just how far I really have to go to get even close to what nature has going (it really reminded me about "the best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago"--but I wasn't here 20 years ago!). I hope to watch your projects progress as mine do here. I've a long, long way to go, but as things grow in, I'm hoping it will be less daunting and more beautiful.
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