Month: August 2019

This past Saturday an intergenerational team dug up a chunk of Angel and Joel’s boulevard and installed 18 species of prairie plants, including some of the more unusual plants that we grew from seed this winter like the super-showy large-flowered beardtongue, (Penstemon grandiflorus) and some great St. Johnswort (Hypericum pyramidatum) that we received from our friend and neighbor Bill B. These two species are unrelated, but both have opposite, pointy leaves and large, pointy seed pods and can look similar to each other when not in flower. The St. Johnswort typically likes moister soil than the beardtongue, but since it’s hard to tell which plants will thrive in a boulevard, we’ve erred on the side of trying lots of stuff and seeing what happens.

 

On Saturday we resumed garden installations with an install at David’s house.

We planted 18 species including some of the plants we started from seed this winter, plus Bee Lab donations and some large anise hyssop and false sunflower donated by local nursery Pollinator Works (thanks, PW!).

Our fall season actually began last Wednesday with a tour of all the gardens we’ve planted in the last three years, organized in collaboration with our local Wild Ones chapter. Here’s a picture of garden superheros Ben and Jeanell and kiddos, who helped with the tour and volunteered their backyard to house lots of plants for CPP. (Nice shirts, right?)

Thanks everyone who organized, hosted, and attended the tour!