House built in 1898. She moved there in 1994
Lost of pecan remnants, old trees
Started planting annuals, but then had to replant each year – saw plants growing wild and chose to add them to her yard
She looked for KS wildflowers that grew well, connected with KNPS, joined in 2000
SOIL EXPERIMENT: likes purple pineapple - Leavenworth eryngo – tried to imitate its preferred soil. Got small chunks of limestone from roadside, dug a trench at her house, put inlimestone and broke it up into smaller pieces, planted seed. Did well for about 3 years
Feels she has modified a local spot with things that belong there – enjoys cicadas, katydids, fireflies – insects do well in her neighborhood because people don’t spray – advantages of lower income, no HOA rules
Used to grow peonies, iris, daylilies
Began adding natives she found along roadsides
Pecan trees in backyard
“pretty friendly” soil
Backyard:
Cup plant – has square stem, leaves cup water at stem (took pictures of bee on flower and of stem)
-perfoleatum – perforated leaves, blooms late into the season
The life of plants is a sunshine-taking domination game
Wild senna, flase sunflowers (rough leaves), asters, wooly verbena, monarda fistulosa (Wild bergamot, bee balm?)
Goals?
-would like to organize her garden “nature is not organized”
-keep diversity
-get rid of invasives
-likes the challenge of growing plants
Add vines and shrubs to her collection
Recommended Garvey Park at 31st and Hydraulic – sandy soil – vines, understory there inspires her
I love the way she interacts with plants – it’s like they are her tribe, she knows them, calls by them, touches the leaves
Lost of pecan remnants, old trees
Started planting annuals, but then had to replant each year – saw plants growing wild and chose to add them to her yard
She looked for KS wildflowers that grew well, connected with KNPS, joined in 2000
SOIL EXPERIMENT: likes purple pineapple - Leavenworth eryngo – tried to imitate its preferred soil. Got small chunks of limestone from roadside, dug a trench at her house, put inlimestone and broke it up into smaller pieces, planted seed. Did well for about 3 years
Feels she has modified a local spot with things that belong there – enjoys cicadas, katydids, fireflies – insects do well in her neighborhood because people don’t spray – advantages of lower income, no HOA rules
Used to grow peonies, iris, daylilies
Began adding natives she found along roadsides
Pecan trees in backyard
“pretty friendly” soil
Backyard:
Cup plant – has square stem, leaves cup water at stem (took pictures of bee on flower and of stem)
-perfoleatum – perforated leaves, blooms late into the season
The life of plants is a sunshine-taking domination game
Wild senna, flase sunflowers (rough leaves), asters, wooly verbena, monarda fistulosa (Wild bergamot, bee balm?)
Goals?
-would like to organize her garden “nature is not organized”
-keep diversity
-get rid of invasives
-likes the challenge of growing plants
Add vines and shrubs to her collection
Recommended Garvey Park at 31st and Hydraulic – sandy soil – vines, understory there inspires her
I love the way she interacts with plants – it’s like they are her tribe, she knows them, calls by them, touches the leaves
