Consider the Osage orange, also known as a hedge apple, bow wood, or bois d’arc–a softball-sized fruit that looks like a weird mash of chartreuse brains.
Author: mywildgarden
Gardening as metaphor
Some thoughts about gardening’s power to console and heal
Why start a blog about gardening? Plus, a visit to Loose Park’s Native Shade Garden
Why start a blog about gardening? Here’s what I hope to accomplish.
Creating a paradise for pollinators and people, with Dana Posten
Kansas City gardener Dana Posten shows us her formal pollinator garden
What to do in the garden this week
How to handle plants that naturalize
Dutch Master
If you’re like me, as you go about your day, you’re always on the lookout for plantings that are out of the ordinary, like these on the west side of Ward Parkway at 64th Terrace.
Taliesin
I was unprepared for just how special I found Taliesin. Seeing it made me want to live a better life.
How Shaggy Is Too Shaggy?
Edging can be a great way to define and control a prairie planting.
Suddenly Nervous
Suddenly nervous about exposing the depths of my gardening ignorance, I checked out a book.
Rudbeckia
In August when my garden is lanky, its colors fading, and some flowers have started to brown, all around I see Black-Eyed Susans powering up the blooms. Our HOA did its best to eliminate everything but begonias and liriope from these entrance plantings. The sight of these big golden beauties feels like being smiled at. […]