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Spring with the Natives
Last night we watched the documentary film Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf, which is available for streaming for a $5 donation to a food charity through Memorial Day. Oudolf is the landscape artist behind the High Line in … Continue reading
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Heartbreak Road
This is what heartbreak looks like. In the past ten days they’ve come in with backhoes and skid loaders and driven right through a huge chunk of the seventeen acres. It’s the beginning of building the road, a process that won’t really … Continue reading
Poplars
A big source of discussion around here this year has been the rows of poplar trees that line our driveway. They are big and shaggy but have been a really nice feature of the property. They give the driveway a stately … Continue reading
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Tagged cottonwoods, poplars, prairie, prairie landscaping
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Mature Prairie, part 2
Six years ago today, Steve and I got married and I moved onto this prairie. At that time, the main prairie behind our house was about five years old. Other pieces of land were being killed, and a few plots were … Continue reading
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Tagged anniversary, mature prairie, planting prairies, prairie, prairie flowers, prairie landscaping, wildflowers
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