Last week I shared some
photos of the Native Pollinator Garden at the Saginaw Chippewa Academy. This is one of four gardens that we have helped establish and maintain since 2011. I also stopped at the Mt. Pleasant Discovery Museum garden last week. This is the youngest of the four gardens. It was planted in July 2013 so this will be its fourth full growing season. As a relatively young garden it is still maturing and changing every year.
Here is a photo from last week.
Just for comparison here are pair of pictures from June 2014 and June 2015 taken from roughly the same vantage point.
 |
| Mt Pleasant Discovery Museum native pollinator garden - June 2014 |
 |
| Mt. Pleasant Discovery Museum native pollinator garden - June 2015 |
Here's another picture from last week and the same view from 2014 and 2015.
 |
| 08 June 2017 |
 |
| June 2014 |
 |
| June 2015 |
It's pretty amazing to see how much the garden has filled in in the past few years. There is still a lot of open space, but it is rapidly filling up with self-seeded plants. The ultimate goal is that the entire surface of the garden will be filled with live plants. Once that happens, the garden will no longer need to be mulched and it will naturally exclude almost almost all weeds due to a lack of space.
That's enough comparison with the past. The remaining few photos were all taken last week. Enjoy!
 |
| Ohio Spiderwort |
 |
| Coreopsis shadow on a Prairie Dock leaf |
 |
| Lanceleaf Coreopsis |
No comments:
Post a Comment