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August 20, 2006
A few days ago I received an email announcing that someone was planning to remove some areas of native plants in their yard, and they were offering the plants to anyone who wanted to come and give them a good home. Benia and I were excited at the prospect of adding some more variety to Native Suburbia without another trip to the nursery with its associated costs. So we set up a time to go and dig and awaited the day.
Yesterday we met Ted Lowe at his home in Wheaton. He is a really nice guy and he gave us a tour of his property. It turned out that the reason he was planning to remove some of his native prairie plantings was to make room for more food crops. It can be difficult to get good quality produce and, being a vegetarian, Ted needed to expand his garden. During our visit we sampled his raspberries and okra... you just can't beat home grown! I have thought of expanding the amount of food that I grow, but our yard just isn't as big as we'd like.
We spent a large part of the day digging up plants and putting them in pots for the trip home. In the end we had over 70 plants including: wild senna, cup plant, browneyed Susans, wild geranium, switch grass, grey headed coneflower, mayapple and Solomon's seal.
We also spent time talking to Ted about solar power and electric vehicles. He is a big proponent of both and it was interesting to learn from someone with personal experience.
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