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 [...]
Tag Archives: Showy Black-eyed Susan
Late Summer Bloom
My traditional gardening friends complain that they have no flowers in bloom in August. They obviously don’t grow Black-eyed Susan. (Rudbeckia speciosa var. sullivantii) View out my front door. This week a Great Spangled Fritillary landed on my front porch stair post–alas, I didn’t get a photo. Great Spangled Fritillary are [...]
Drought? What drought? Part 2
Drought? What drought? Part 2 July 26, 2012 If ever there was a summer to convince people to plant prairie flowers and grasses instead of lawns and exotic flowers, this is it. I began to plant my prairie garden in 1998, starting with the front foundation, entry walk, and along the front walk, adding [...]
Romantic Gardens
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. Blaise Pascal Give all to love, Obey thy heart, Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good-fame, Plans, credit and the Muse,— Nothing refuse. Ralph Waldo Emerson Romantic Gardens The Romantic Period was an intellectual and artistic movement that originated in the late 18th century and stressed [...]
Through the Year 2011 in My Garden
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 [...]
Yellow Daisies
Yellow Daisies My House in August Radiant yellow daisies dominate my August gardens. The wanton, golden Showy Black-eyed Susan, the color of marigolds, is everywhere, anywhere its seeds have found a bit of bare dirt in which to sprout. Every year I think I have way too many Showy Black-eyed Susan–until August, when their ravishing [...]
Prairie Dropseed
If you want to start a prairie garden, I recommend that you first plant Prairie Dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepsis). If you have a perennial garden, place Prairie Dropseed between the plants. It grows in whorled, arching mound, 2-3′ tall and around. In late July-early August, delicate, fragrant, airy panicles of flowers begin to emerge on stiff [...]
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Wild Ones: Northern Kane County Chapter
SNOWFALL
February 12, 2013 • Categories: Celebrate Winter, Pat's Comments • by PatHill
The Snow-Storm Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farm-house at the garden’s end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier’s feet Delayed, all friends shut out, [...]
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