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Through the Year 2012 at my House

January 1, 2013 • Categories: Pat's Comments, Through the Year • by

Through the Year 2012 at My House   January 12, 2012   My front sidewalk edged with snow-covered Prairie Dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepsis) *The lowest temperature of the year was 5 degrees above (recorded on Jan. 15th, 19th and 20th) February 9, 2012   My front street corner. February 23, 2012   Patio through my studio [...]

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Through the Year 2011 in My Garden

January 1, 2012 • Categories: Through the Year • by

THROUGH THE YEAR 2011 IN MY GARDEN     JANUARY  I neglected to take any pictures at my house last January, so I’m showing you a  photograph of June’s stone stairway that I did take. Last year, in February, I  featured the grass, stone, and snow of the Geneva Riverwalk, but if you have a [...]

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Early Spring Prairie Garden

May 19, 2011 • Categories: Spring Garden, Through the Year • by

Early Spring Prairie Garden   After the slowest-starting spring in memory, we were suddenly fast-forwarded to summer; then back to March!  Only in the Midwest does the temperature go from 50 to the high 80’s in a day to the 40’s within a week!   The prairie is slow to wake up–the first to bloom [...]

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2010 in my Gardens

January 8, 2011 • Categories: Through the Year • by

A new year starts this week and I thought this would be a good time to let you look back at my own gardens the past year and consider it a preview of things to come. I want to prove to you that gardening with native plants is not restrictive or a hardship; that you [...]

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