Wild Wild Woods: Gardener

The bird feeder garden is a success! Lettuces, tomatoes, kale, arugula, peas, string beans, cucumbers, carrots, beets, onions. Chives, basil, and all the usual herbs for the kitchen. Sunflowers along the edge, for birds to enjoy. Milkweed nearby, for the wonderful scent drifting by when I'm down on my knees pulling weeds. Each year, more perennials to provide nectar and seeds.

The University of Minnesota provides a wide range of information for gardeners:
https://plantinfo.umn.edu/

The absolute best online resource to learn about wildflowers that grow in Minnesota:
http://www.minnesotawildflowers.info
This web site was created by Katy Chayka, a Minnesota Master Naturalist volunteer and native plant enthusiast; with collaboration by Peter M. Dziuk, noted imaginographer and long-time native plant advocate.

A wonderful resource to help identify wildflowers is "Friends of The Wildflower Garden". Find information on wildflowers that grow in the Eloise Butler Garden by common name, scientific name, bloom season, blossom color, or just thumb through the beautiful thumbnail photos.
http://www.friendsofthewildflowergarden.org/pages/archive/archplantcommon.html

The arbor --- where we sit to watch hummingbirds, and enjoy a view into the woods.

The woodland bench, along the path that winds through the woods.

About this blog "Wild Wild Woods"

Through 2018, the posts on "wild wild woods" were photos taken in my bird garden and a set-aside strip of land that was the old fence row when the suburban lots in my neighborhood were farmed land. That wooded area sheltered a variety of plants and wildlife among the trees, understory, and a brushpile.

Now, my windows look out on a pond.

My new location is another former farm field that became a neighborhood. Fortunately, the wetland was preserved. It includes a pond surrounded by wildflowers, grasses, reeds, and a few trees.

I am pleased to observe and enjoy these places for birds, critters, and plants of central Minnesota.

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