Prairie Garden Retrospective


Some photos of our daughter and our prairie garden 25 years ago


In my last entry I mentioned an old photo of Janice and our prairie garden from 1982. It turns out that the photo I had in mind doesn't exist. It seems to have been a kind of mental composite of three photos shown here. The one above shows most of the garden, with a neighbor's house in the background. Near the center of the left edge you can see a small shrub. This innocent-looking plant is one of the Amur maples that eventually caused problems for the garden (especially after they were more than 15 feet tall).


This next image shows little of the garden, but doesn't Janice look cute?


Here's Janice again, with some prairie plants in the foreground (including a grass stem right across her face). Notice that there are actually two kinds of yellow flowers here. The ones with the very dark centers (mostly near the bottom) are black-eyed Susans. The ones with centers that are yellow (but still darker than the surrounding petals) are common ox-eye (Heliopsis helianthoides). This year we've had lots of black-eyed Susans, but only a few ox-eye blossoms so far.

I'll be putting higher-resolution versions of these photos in the Prairie Garden Restoration gallery on smugmug.

Posted: Thu - July 26, 2007 at 08:28 PM       by email

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