Tricia and I went to a plant sale this evening held by the local native plant society. We were both actually hoping to find some trees. I wanted to find an Eve’s necklace to replace one that failed to make it through the winter in my yard. She was looking for a desert willow for a friend.

We didn’t find either of those but we did bring home some liatris, coralberry and sweet autumn clematis. There was also a good presentation by a man named Mark Chapin, who lives on 20 acres near the town of Argyle. He is basically letting it go wild and documenting with a camera all the changes that take place on it through the seasons. It’s a project that would seem a natural to me for a web blog but he doesn’t have a web site of any kind. He did have lots of slides though of wildflowers. Although it has only been a few years since the land was grazed by cattle and he has not brought in any plants himself he already has dozens of different wildflowers and native grasses coming up in his prairie.