Lucas House

This is the month that the garden feels like it’s getting established. There are two reasons for this: First, it’s time… we’re starting the third year of the garden now. Second, I have added some shrubs. Deer and rabbits continue to be a problem, although I am seeing fewer than last year. But I can…

The garden is slowly….very slowly… becoming a garden. That’s because the perennials, grasses and sedges are starting to grow.

Spring clean-up is pretty much complete now. The garden can breathe again. particularly the parts that were under a thatch of Little Bluestem stalks.

Flattened stalks and some glimmers of spring.

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The garden at Lucas House celebrated its first birthday last week. Here’s an update of where it’s at. And where I’m at in relation to it.

With the early end to winter, it seems spring has taken a long time to get going. That feels especially true to impatient old me at ​Lucas House​, Grounded’s native plant demonstration garden in Haliburton village. But things are happening. And they’ll ramp up as we go through May. It’s a nail-biting time in the…

As you’ll see from the images, I planted the matrix grasses in a grid pattern. This will make it easier to see what is grass and what is weeds. Then I planted the forbs in the gaps. You’ll see some of the grasses are starting to go into dormancy by late September. Fingers crossed they’ll…