Last year I started my native prairie flower garden in my sunny front yard, with excellent drainage on a gravel ridge (read: dry). This year I am adding a few more species of drought tolerant, native prairie plants. My last attempt at seeding drought ...
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Starting a Native Prairie Flower Garden
My Front lawn is south facing and sits on a gravel ridge. It gets brown every year – by July, and NO, I do not want to water my lawn. I live on an acreage and refuse to water that much lawn. So what to do? Drought tolerant plants, which quickly lead ...
I'm Erika, I live on eighty acres in the northern prairies of southern Manitoba with my husband and four kids. Here, we enjoy the outdoors and try to be more self sufficient as we try new things in the garden and learn about our land and the world around us.