The liatris or gayfeather is beginning to bloom in all the fields now. It is also called blazing star. The roots of this plant are said to go as deep as 15 feet. Indians apparently dug them up and ate them.
It prefers the poor soils according to my field guide. This is on the southwest side of our property. I think it is actually quite generous to refer to the ground here as “soil.”
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but in it’s own way it’s really quite pretty! Have a good one!
That is one patch of “soil” that doesn’t look very loving.
Nice color on the plant, though!
Hi – this is an invitation to join the Garden Bloggers Retro carnival. I don’t know if you’ve ever come across the concept of a Blog carnival – if not I’ve explained it in detail on my site (Oct 1). But basically the idea is to revive one of your old posts which you think is worth rereading, or which you think new readers might enjoy. Send me the link to the post, and in November I’ll publish a series of posts describing and linking to all the posts people have nominated.
I hope you’ll join in and we have a fun carnival!
Sue
PS. I hope this isn’t the second time I’ve invited you - I’m losing track of who I have and haven’t yet contacted. If so, sorry.
Sorry - that link didn’t work. Try this one!
These kind of look like mist flowers…