August 23, 2005

Plants in the yard

In my yard there are plants that volunteered themselves into place, and some that I planted.

Among the volunteers are day lilies, sweet cicely, celandine poppies, nightshade, cilia, gout weed, ferns, as well as several trees: oak, elm, Manitoba maple, pines (maybe some small European buckthorns that I haven't seen and pulled out).

Over the last few years, I have planted the following
tall meadow rue, prairie sage, fireweed, blue vervain, narrowleaf sunflower, milkweed, joe pye weed, white flat-topped aster, hostas, coleus, evening primrose, prairie rose, swamp violet, culver's root, bleeding heart, three flowered avens, Philadelphia fleabane, red bee balm, phlox, double balloon flower, pink onion, giant hysop, gaillardia, bladegrass, yarrow, bergamot, little bluestem, golden alexander, black eyed susan, crocus, iris, obedient plant, purple prairie clover, white prairie clover, and dotted blazing star (I've planted more than this, but some of the plants simply disappeared shortly after going in the ground).

This isn't an exhaustive list (there are bunch of weeds that I didn't list, and I have a couple of tomato plants too), but it gives some indication of what's in my 75' by 123' lot.

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