[To see photos and stories of this prairie in other years, go to the links on the main Buffalo Ridge Prairie page.]
We didn’t do anything special to this prairie this year. Oxeye did especially well, but so did Queen Anne’s Lace.
2/20/2017 This edge, shaded by the woods into Indian Grass Point, always stays snowy later than anywhere else.
2/20/2017
3/13/2017
3/15/2017
6/19/2017
7/1/2017
7/8/2017 Ann working on our annual Butterfly Count
7/13/2017
7/13/2017
7/17/2017
7/17/2017
7/21/2017 It was hard to take photos of the Oxeye that showed what it was really like. This is the closest I could get. I glowed in the afternoon sun.
7/21/2017
7/21/2017
7/22/2017 Just before our Moth Party we took a walk but got stopped by this storm.
8/5/2017
8/10/2017
8/13/2017
9/3/2017 Indian Grass blooming
10/13/2017
10/22/2017
10/24/2017 Looking down the hill at Volvo Meadow – a planting project for this winter
11/2/2017
11/3/2017
12/20/2017
12/14/2017
12/18/2017
12/29/2017