Here we are in the second half of October and the normal fall color is still slow to set in. Most of the street trees are still green, but some of the Maples have turned orange and red.
Category: Foliage, Grasses Tags: Autumn Color, Crabapple Donald Wyman, Fall Color, Gray Dogwood, Great Merrybells, Maple, Northern Sea Oats, Prairie Spurge, River Oats, Solomon's Seal
The Left Bank is what I call the part of our garden that sits west of the driveway. It consists of 4 parts: 1) The Lamppost Bed in the parkway; 2) the Crabapple Bed under the dripline (more or less) of the the ‘Donald Wyman’ Crabapple; 3) the area between the Crabapple Bed and the …
Category: Annuals, Food, Perennial flowers Tags: 'Italian White' Sunflower, Allium 'Summer Beauty', Basil, Bronze Fennel, Butterflyweed, Cosmos, Daylily 'Chicago Apache', Nodding Onion, Oregano, Plants for Pollinators, Prairie Spurge, Rue, Starry Solomon's Plume, Wild Petunia
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
Aside from the Jolly Yellow Giants, there are a few other goings on in the Front Garden.
Category: Garden Tour, Native Plants and Wildflowers, Perennial flowers Tags: 'Chicago Apache', Allium 'Summer Beauty', Anise Hyssop, Coral Honeysuckle, Egyptian Spice Daylily, Monarda 'Purple Rooster', Nodding Onion, Oriental Lily 'Casa Blanca', Prairie Baby's Breath, Prairie Spurge, Swamp Milkweed, trumpet honeysuckle, Wild Petunia
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