Native prairie garden (2024)

This year, I labelled and numbered each species.

1-42 prairie species

I also have woodbine (43) and Virginia creeper (44). They have been here since we bought the house.

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Early May

Front yard, early May

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Mid-May

All the plants I could find, mid-May: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMkNeeP9e

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Late May

Front yard, late May

Side yard, late May. Two new species added.

Pussy toes, late May. The photo doesn’t show how tall they grow, but you can see them spreading from year to year.

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Mid-June

TikTok slide show - Plants 1-21

TikTok slide show - Plants 22 - 42

Wild columbine

Walk-around video:

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Early July

Clockwise from top left: Wild bergamot, black-eyed Susans and false sunflower, blue vervain, pearly everlasting

July 1

July 8

July 9 (out the front window)

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August

August. Woodbine and Virginia Creeper

August. Clockwise from top left: Meadow Blazing Star, Black-eyed Susan, Culver's Root, Giant Hyssop

August - Ironweed, Philadelphia fleabane

Butterflies mating on the blazing star:

Sorgastrum, western silver aster

Narrow-leaf sunflower proliferating:

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September

Joe Pye, Meadow Blazing Star going to seed in front of Sorgastrum, Many Flowered Aster

Fall in the garden

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October

Hard trim for the winter. Would have preferred to leave everything for habitat and organic matter for the spring, but we need the space for driveway snow.

Mid-October

Frost on ironweed

November

Clockwise from top left: Three-flowered avens, pasture sage, giant hyssop, prairie rose