Tour of Kathy Collins' yard & gardens
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Rain Date: Tues. July 30 same time. Open to the public.
"I have a pretty large garden, that is well over half native plants. The first things I planted twenty some years ago were natives from the Prairie Nursery, most of which are still doing well. My focus has been to attract hummingbirds and bumblebees, and other pollinators. I have lots of Monarda, Heliopsis, mountain mints, Joe-Pye, Ironweed, spiderwort, and many more. I have several kinds of milkweed in my garden. The bumblebees and other bees seem to be doing well, and we get lots of visits from our neighbors' honeybees. There are six or seven native ferns. I have also been adding berries to use for jams and jellies, so I have Nannyberrry, highbush cranberry, chokeberry, blueberry cultivars. They have yet to produce enough , but I'm ever hopeful! We have a small pond stocked with goldfish to eat the mosquito larvae, that usually attracts six or seven frogs by the end of the season. At the top of our garden hill, we have a grape arbor with a swing, where I love to sit and watch all the garden activity. Our front lawn is planted with the no-mow seed mix from the Prairie Nursery."