2016 Sept 15 - surprise!

Post date: Sep 15, 2016 4:50:39 PM

Every day I take a walk around my yard, often times I discover something that I've have never seen before.

Today was a huge surprise, a single fringed gentian growing on a dry, south facing slope.

Fringed gentian like wet prairies.... I have never seen one in my yard.

Native plants are unpredictable, that's one of the reasons natural area restoration and reconstruction is so interesting..

Seeds can lie dormant for many years; plants may bloom one year, and not the next.

Nature has its ways...