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GARDEN BLOGS: Queen of the Prairie: Wildflower Wednesday
Queen of the Prairie was introduced to my garden. The Gentleman Farmer found it growing in a roadside ditch about a quarter of a mile from our house and brought it home for me. Shortly...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Trailing Arbutus
I‘ve been trying to go for a walk up in our woods every day that it isn’t raining. (We got 8.55 inches of rain this April and our normal is 3.49 inches, so there haven’t...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Pussy Willow: Wildflower Wednesday
For Wildflower Wednesday, I try to feature a native plant growing wild on our property. I took a walk on Monday to see what was blooming, and found only one plant blooming, a shrub which...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Native Enthusiasm
At last. Finally. Why chicory, Cichorium intybus, the blue flower of August roadsides, should have avoided our rural road for so long, is a mystery to me. So forlorn have I been made by its...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Bur Cucumber: Wildflower Wednesday
What better way to celebrate autumn than with a native wildflower more noted for its fruit than its flower. Bur cucumber (Echinocystis lobata), also known as wild cucumber, balsam-apple, or Concombre sauvage, grows on my...