Let’s continue our visit to Mettawa Manor, the garden of Bill Kurtis and Donna LaPietra. For me, the highlight of the trip was wandering through their 20-acre Tall Grass Prairie.
Category: Great Gardens, Native Plants and Wildflowers Tags: Beekeeping, Bill Kurtis, Blazingstar, Culver's Root, Donna LaPietra, Garden Conservancy, Goldenrod, Liatris, Lily Pond, Mettawa Manor, Open Garden Day, Potager, Prairie in the Home Landscape, Prairie Restoration
There are certain plants that really define a garden at a given point in the season. This is certainly true of the Lurie Garden in July.
Category: Great Gardens Tags: Allium 'Summer Beauty', Balloon Flower, Blazingstar, Chicago Gardens, Common Milkweed, Culver's Root, Fleabane, Globe Thistle, Lurie Garden, Naturalistic Gardens, Pale Purple Coneflower, Purple Coneflower, Queen of the Prairie, Rusty Foxglove, Urban Gardens, Wild Petunia
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