It’s always a great day when the lupine assert themselves in the greenery of the prairie. And it’s always a surprise. There in a field of flowers that still seem to just be getting started is a cluster of bright blue blooms on exotic looking stems.
This year they have sprung up in different spots than last year. But they are equally, if not even more, glorious than last year.
A lot of our prairie is still “immature,” and by that I mean basically full of weeds. But the stand behind our house is victorious, a place where “the natives,” by which I mean the flowers and grasses we like, have taken a firm hold and more than dominate. And though I’ve been mostly watching the growth of stands that will become rudbeckia, yarrow, asters and cone flowers, there are these occasional stunners– the butterfly bushes and the lupine.
