Yesterday afternoon I photographed the Native Pollinator Garden at the Saginaw Chippewa Academy. This year was a transition year for this garden. The portable classroom that bordered it on the west was removed this spring. This meant that the garden no longer gets water running off the roof and it is exposed to full sun for the entire day. I was not sure how it would react to the changes.
Native plants are tough. Most of them took the changes in stride, with no obvious ill effects. A few plants were noticeably shorter than in previous years, but everything survived. Here are some pictures.
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| Looking north into the garden - the portable classroom used to be on the left |
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| Honey bees were very abundant |
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| Looking east toward the school - the bright yellow flower is Cup Plant |
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| Butterflyweed explodes into seeds |
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| Blue Vervain flowers |
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| A wasp with a millipede it has captured |
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| Culver's Root leaves |
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| Cup Plant leaves |
This morning (15 September), I stopped at the Mt. Pleasant Discovery Museum to take a few photographs of their Native Pollinator Garden. This garden is wild looking right now! I love seeing how these gardens evolve from year to year.
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| Native Pollinator Garden at the Mt. Pleasant Discovery Museum |
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| Stiff Goldenrod is in bloom |
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| Native grasses sprawl into the walkway |
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| Prairie Dock silhouetted against the sky |
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| A few Prairie Dock flowers remain in bloom |
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| Horsemint |
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| The tall plants to the right are Evening Primrose which is threatening to take over the garden |
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| Asters are just beginning to bloom |
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