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Eupatorium perfoliatum and Rudbeckia subtomentosa 'Henry Eilers' Mid-August pocket meadow Updating a favorite program today (Nativ...

Eupatorium perfoliatum ( Common Boneset ), Eutrochium purpureum ( Joe - Pye ), various Liatris species, Heliopolis, Parthenium integrefoli...

The pocket meadow in front of the house continues to transform, but is especially lively now, as (normally) fall-flowering plants like Joe-P...

We've been so fortunate to have a new "piece of earth" to move forward to -- there's so much that we've established of...

view through the front door  I'm grateful today for the wonderful view out the doors in our small mountain house. pocket meadow- late Au...

pocket meadow -mid-August 2014 The pocket meadow in front is being visited by all sorts of bees and butterflies.  What fun!  The Joe-Pye, Bo...

"Pocket" meadow The plants in the pocket meadow out front are such a nice mix, flowering sequentially throughout the growing seaso...

Female goldfinch gleaning seed I spent the morning cleaning up the last of the beans and squash from my vegetable beds in the mountains. I w...

I really wish I had a decent camera at the moment - the iPad 2 is pretty minimal (awful, actually). I miss my trusty Nikon D100 left at home...

The heading titles were my gardening companion's message and mine at the Cullowhee Native Plant Conference today. It's been such fun...

Natural gardening to me means mimicking nature, recreating the way that natural processes result in the plant communities and successional h...

I'm been on the lookout for informal plantings of native grasses and forbs (herbaceous perennials) --- these are the pocket meadow plant...