POSTED BY KIM — Given this rainy weather, I think it’s appropriate for me to write about my turtlehead. If you have children or grandchildren, I think you need a turtlehead in your yard or you might be breaking the law.
Chelone lyonii loves the shade, loves the water (although if you don’t water — like me — [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Natives’
October 9, 2009
Everyone needs a turtlehead
September 5, 2009
Vignettes from the K-State Gardens
POSTED BY CALEB
I always forget to include that attribution, but I assume that many of you can figure it out from my slant on things…
July 6, 2009
My Startling Jungle
POSTED BY CALEB
My garden has gone rather wild in the months that I’ve been absent. It reminds me of these words by Vita Sackville-West, the famous English gardener.
“Follow my steps, oh gardener, down these woods.
Luxuriate in this my startling jungle.”
- Vita Sackville-West, The Garden
April 8, 2009
Virginia bluebells: a kaleidoscope of spring color
POSTED BY KIM — I can find something to appreciate about most flowers. Maybe it blooms an especially long time, is really fragrant, or can withstand tough growing conditions. But when it comes to flower color, I think the Virginia bluebell Mertensia virginica is in a class by itself.
Bonus: It’s native! I always think of native flowers as [...]
March 18, 2009
I have trillium envy
POSTED BY KIM — I love trillium. I love that they’re one of the first flowers to appear in spring, then disappear in the heat of summer, only here to be enjoyed for a short time. I love that they’re a woodland flower, a bright spot in an otherwise shady place.
I HATE that they won’t [...]
December 3, 2008
Growing wild through gravel in our parking lot — passion flower is one tough vine
POSTED BY KIM — Earlier this summer we stacked a bunch of trellises in the parking lot just to make some room, and would you believe that a vine actually started growing on one of them? Say hello to Passiflora incarnata, the native passion flower vine.
Obviously if it’s growing wild in our parking lot — [...]
November 12, 2008
A bittersweet view
POSTED BY KIM — When I look out my bathroom window, two stories above the side yard, I have a great view of a flower bed, a small patch of lawn, and the woods. (My husband complains when I peek out the window because he says I lean on his towel bar, but that’s a subject for [...]
October 21, 2008
If you like Missouri natives, check out www.henrydomke.com
POSTED BY KIM — I do have some Missoui native plants in my yard, but I’m not a Grow Native die-hard. Missouri natives tend to look a little unkempt and aren’t as showy as some of the more exotic perennial flowers I come into contact with at Sugar Creek, so with the limited size of my [...]
