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Gardening with Prairie Plants is a book by Sally Wasowski. Of all the “how to” native gardening books I’ve read this is my out and out favorite. It’s a definite inspiration, full of wonderful detail. Subtitled “how to create beautiful native landscapes“, if you live east of the Rocky Mountains, you’ll want to add this [...] Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa) by earlycj5 Most of Kansas was once covered in prairie. Only 4% of North America’s original prairie remains today, with 80% of that in Kansas (1). But what of the costs of prairie restoration? How is prairie brought back, assuming we want to? Let’s look at an example of Kansas prairie [...] Black-tailed Prairie Dog by Paul Carroll The black-tailed prairie dog, Cynomys ludovicianus, is a resident of western Kansas as well as parts of Montana, the Dakotas, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Arizona. This means you will not find black-tailed prairie dogs in eastern Kansas where I live. But that’s not the prairie dog myth I’m talking [...] Here is a conversation I had yesterday with a very nice lady, who lives in New Jersey and whom I consider a friend, who has never been to Kansas. Obviously she has never seen photos of Kansas prairie flowers. Alison: I didn’t bring my camera because I never end up taking photos. The only thing I’m [...] “Starting on May 5, 1983, Vicky Foth and I walked for the next eighty days across Kansas and eastern Colorado, from the mouth of the Kansas River in Kansas City to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains south of Denver. We walked 690 miles, averaging about 10 miles a day, traveling parallel to the Santa [...] |
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