So I had the good fortune to meet a fellow avid gardener recently. His name is Mike Miller and he lives in the adjacent town of Wilmette. He was nice enough to invite Judy and me to visit his garden. As soon as we pulled up to the curb, I could see that it was …
Category: Grasses, Great Gardens, Perennial flowers Tags: Allium 'Summer Beauty', Arborvitae, Blue Grama, Calamint, Chinese Astilbe, Clematis, Feather Reed Grass 'Karl Foerster', Hybrid Moor Grass, Hydrangea, Little Bluestem, Matrix Planting, Pennisetum, Poppies, Purple Coneflower, Seating Areas, Sisleria 'Greenlee', Swamp Milkweed, Switchgrass
Yesterday Judy got downtown and had a long-delayed reunion with the Lurie Garden. She was enchanted with its winter splendor, and took lots of photos with her phone.
Category: Great Gardens Tags: Arkansas Bluestar, Bottle Gentian, Calamint, Chicago Gardens, Compass Plant, European Beech, Korean Feather Reed Grass., Little Bluestem, Lurie Garden, milkweed, Mountain Mint
August and September were busy months, and I’m afraid that I neglected my Lurie Garden posts. But now I’m ready to get back on track with October.
Category: Great Gardens Tags: Arkansas Blue Star, Blue Grama Grass, Bottle Gentian, Calamint, Chicago Gardens, Common Milkweed, Feather Reed Grass, Fountain Grass, Goldenrod, Little Bluestem, Lurie Garden, Prairie Dropseed, Prairie Spurge, Purple Coneflower, Sky Blue Aster, Switchgrass 'Shenandoah', Tatarian Aster, Toad Lily
October is the golden month at the Lurie Garden.
Category: Grasses, Great Gardens, Native Plants and Wildflowers Tags: Bluestar, Calamint, Fountain Grass, Goldenrod, Little Bluestem, Northern Sea Oats, Prairie Dropseed, Rattlesnake Master, Switchgrass 'Shenandoah', Tatarian Aster 'Jindai', Toad Lily
It’s hard to leave the garden when you’re going away for a long trip. Judy and I are heading to Japan tomorrow and we’ll be staying there for a couple of weeks. (It’s another vacation piggybacked on Judy’s business trip.) I can’t stop thinking of everything I’ll miss while we’re gone. So I spent much …
Category: Garden Art, Grasses, Native Plants and Wildflowers, Roses Tags: Anise Hyssop, Anise Scented Goldenrod, Black-Eyed Susan, Bluestem goldenrod, Bronze Fennel, Brown-Eyed Susan, Bumblebees, Calamint, Golden Glow, Helenium, Joe Pye Weed 'Gateway', Mexican Sunflower, Monarch Butterflies, Northern Sea Oats, Rosa 'Darlow's Enigma', Rosa 'Sally Holmes', Sedum 'Matrona', Switchgrass, Tithonia
So another Minneapolis-area spot that we discovered thanks to the Garden Bloggers Fling is the Noerenberg Memorial Garden.
Category: Grasses, Great Gardens, Perennial flowers, Travel Tags: Baptisia, Blue Grama Grass, Blue Vervain, Blue wild indigo, Calamint, Foxglove, Garden Bloggers Fling, Minnesota Gardens, Nigella, Noerenberg Memorial Garden, Purple Coneflower, Salvia
It’s been a fairly warm autumn so far. Leaves are slow to color, flowers to fade. Though they certainly are fading.
Category: Perennial flowers, Roses, Vines Tags: Calamint, Cigar Plant, Clematis, Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, Mexican Sunflower, New England Aster, Pincushion Flower, Rosa 'Cassie', Sedum, Short's Aster, Sweat Bees
September is a transitional month. Summer fades away as fall creeps in. Let’s see what’s in bloom at the mid-point of this ninth month of the year.
Category: Garden Tour, Native Plants and Wildflowers, Perennial flowers, Roses Tags: 'Darlow's Enigma' Rose, 'Sally Holmes' Rose, Anise Scented Goldenrod, Big Leaf Aster, Black-Eyed Susan, Bluestem goldenrod, Brown-Eyed Susan, Calamint, Joe Pye Weed 'Gateway', Mexican Sunflower, Monarch Butterflies, Orange Coneflower, Plumbago, Sedum 'Matrona', September Flowers, Short's Aster, Tithonia, Toad Lily, Zigzag Goldenrod
So last Wednesday I got to spend an hour walking through the Lurie Garden with Piet Oudolf and about 20 garden lovers. It was extremely, extremely cool. The unfortunate things were 1) Judy couldn’t come, as she was out of town for work; 2) I forgot her camera so I had to take pictures with …
OK, so here are the rest of our garden’s blooms taken this past Sunday.
Category: Native Plants and Wildflowers, Perennial flowers, Shade Gardening Tags: Big Leaf Aster, Black-Eyed Susan, Butterflyweed, Calamint, Cardinal Flower, Container Gardening, Crooked Stem Aster, Indian Pink, Prairie Baby's Breath, Prairie Onion, Sedum 'Matrona', Shrub Rose 'Cassie', Shrub Rose 'Sally Holmes', Wild Petunia
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