Still No Frost and Another New Bloom

Our first frost has been extremely delayed this year, which prompted the Small's Penstemon to put on its show. I'm glad I got to see it, as I ordered this one too hurriedly. It's not suited for our zone, so this may be the only glimpse of it I ever get.

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Down Goes The Cardboard

20 Bags of Mulch on the Ground

While my hope is that native violets will fill in as a living groundcover, mulch is needed in the meantime. I've labeled every single plant so that I will know what should appear where and to better inform my future weeding activities after a long winter.

Garden Sketch -- What I Planted Where

I took some time to make an amateur sketch of my planting layout, taking care to size the drawings for each plant's eventual mature width. BFI = Blue False Indigo CB = Columbine FG = Foxglove FN = False Nettle GA = Golden Alexander HV = Hoary Vervain LBS = Little Bluestem OCF = Orange Coneflower PCF = Purple Coneflower PMW = Purple Milkweed PPCF = Pale Purple Coneflower PV = Prairie Violet RMW = Rose Milkweed SBES = Sweet Black-Eyed Susan SmP = Small's Penstemon SOG = Sideoats Grama YCF = Yellow Coneflower

My Native Wisconsin Butterfly Garden

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