IronWeed &mdash; Native Front Yard https://native-front-yard.writeas.com/tag:IronWeed The project of converting my front yard from turf grass with Asian shrubs to all native plants. Sat, 16 May 2026 13:43:51 +0000 wildflower update https://native-front-yard.writeas.com/wildflower-update?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[Floodwaters moved my log borders, which my plant markers were attached to. I don't remember what I planted where, so reidentifying as they grow. And most of them are indeed growing. The blanket flower is even blooming a little. A many-petaled flower with a red center, orangey yellow around the edges. !--more-- A house with a tree trunk in the front yard; some areas have log borders and a strip along the street has plants. The grass came back hard the past couple of weeks, despite the thorough killing I gave it last year. It looks like a different breed of turf grass than the St. Augustine. It came back especially thick around the tree trunk and in the library circle. I mowed it hard and weed eated and it looks tons better. I haven't gotten to the flower bed under the windows yet. That whole area is going to get gravel for a firebreak and drainage area. Anyway, back to the wildflowers. Various plants; the one on the extreme left has a single blossom of yellow and red; logs lying in the background, and a house beyond. The ones on the left are blanket flowers and the ones on the right are ironweed. Somewhere in the middle is lanceleaf coreopsis. I don't remember where I put the wild bergamot, and I don't know whether it came back or not. I think it's behind the ironweed and that it didn't, but not 100% sure. #BlanketFlower #IronWeed #LanceLeafCoreopsis #WildBergamot #TurfGrass]]> Floodwaters moved my log borders, which my plant markers were attached to. I don't remember what I planted where, so reidentifying as they grow. And most of them are indeed growing.

The blanket flower is even blooming a little.

A many-petaled flower with a red center, orangey yellow around the edges.

A house with a tree trunk in the front yard; some areas have log borders and a strip along the street has plants.

The grass came back hard the past couple of weeks, despite the thorough killing I gave it last year. It looks like a different breed of turf grass than the St. Augustine. It came back especially thick around the tree trunk and in the library circle. I mowed it hard and weed eated and it looks tons better.

I haven't gotten to the flower bed under the windows yet. That whole area is going to get gravel for a firebreak and drainage area.

Anyway, back to the wildflowers.

Various plants; the one on the extreme left has a single blossom of yellow and red; logs lying in the background, and a house beyond.

The ones on the left are blanket flowers and the ones on the right are ironweed. Somewhere in the middle is lanceleaf coreopsis. I don't remember where I put the wild bergamot, and I don't know whether it came back or not. I think it's behind the ironweed and that it didn't, but not 100% sure.

#BlanketFlower #IronWeed #LanceLeafCoreopsis #WildBergamot #TurfGrass

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