Prairie Update: The gorgeous Orange Butterfly weed is still in bloom, but is just about to go to seed. Other bloomers are Prairie coneflowers (black cone with yellow droopy leaves), Black-eyed Susans (yellow), Monarda or Bee balm or Wild bergamot (lavender pincushion-like flowers), Tufted fleabane (smail white flowers with a yellow center), and Hoary vervain or verbana (purple spike-like flowers).
One of my favorites is a native-species flower that CLPA volunteers have planted over the years: Lead plant. It has small, delicate oval leaves and a spike-like mass of deep-purple flowers along the uper two to seven inches of the plant.
As always, please enjoy them, but leave them in peace for others to enjoy too!
Greetings from Winona! I seldom visit Minneapolis anymore, but fondly remember days and evenings spent at Cedar Lake. I’d attend your 20-Year Celebration, but have a busy weekend here. BTW: If any of you are going to be here for the Twin Cities Bicycle Club’s Weekend on Wheels 2009, get in touch. I live close to the dorm where bikers are staying, and am in the phone book, or norbert at hbci dot com.
Anybody on Facebook? My page and photos are open to anyone, I think, but I’m not sure how you would find it. Maybe search for John N. Finn, La Crosse, WI network.
Not commenting on the flowers, of course. I was intending to post new, but I’m sure they are quite nice. I planted hosta and lilly of the valley back in an area of Hidden Beach that I assume has been leveled and cleared out by now. Oh well.