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June 07, 2006
I am making an effort to get up to date with putting pictures online, so for the second day in a row there are new pictures to see. The new set is called Mass Planting 05/2006 because in one weekend in May, Benia and I planted 168 plugs.
As you may know if you have followed our story from the beginning, Native Suburbia was primarily started from seed. We had mixed results with this approach. In some areas, the plants burst forth and made our dreams come true. In other areas we were not so lucky and the ground remained barren. As we started our second growing season since the beginning of this project, our impatience grew. It was getting hard to keep the weeds out of these barren patches and it just wasn't very nice to look at. The rain garden was the tipping point in our decision to buy plugs instead of waiting for the seed to fulfill its promise. The new rain garden was basically a hole in the mud without plants, so we needed to give it a kick to get it started. Since we were already going to The Natural Garden for that, why not pick up a few plants for the shady area in the front as well? The actual number of plants needed required two separate trips and two days to plant!
A week later we went up to Wisconsin to visit my mother. She lives in a rural area on a property that contains some areas of native plants. Unfortunately these areas are being systematically destroyed by my relatives who are doing their best to cut and plow everything they can. We had limited room to transport plants, but we rescued 24 specimens including trillium, wild geranium, Solomon's seal, false Solomon's seal, Virginia waterleaf and mayapple. These were perfect additions to the shady areas in our yard.
Then last weekend we went back to The Natural Garden again to get another 60 plants to fill in around the deck and in the grassy patch by the back fence. We wanted to mix a few forbs into the grasses and fill in some open areas that were being taken over by weeds.
With all of these new members of our native plant family this ought to be an exciting year in Native Suburbia.
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