[To see photos and stories of this prairie in other years, go to the links on the main Sheep Hill Bluff Prairie page.]

Starting in January, I planted this field with prairie seeds – frost seeding on top of the snow.

Mike mowed it twice – in early July and in early September.   I found quite a few native plants blooming.  Some are species that will bloom even in their first year, but others I think must have already been growing here.

1/12/2022

 

1/13/2022

 

1/13/2022

 

1/27/2022

 

3/14/2022

 

5/28/2022

 

5/28/2022

 

6/7/2022  Common Milkweed

 

6/7/2022  Robin’s Plantain

 

6/7/2022  Sensitive Fern

 

6/7/2022  Bedstraw

 

6/7/2022  White Gentian

 

7/8/2022  After the first mowing

 

9/3/2022  Queen Anne’s Lace and Black-eyed Susans

 

 

9/3/2022  Queen Anne’s Lace and Foxtail

 

9/4/2022 Mowing

 

9/9/2022  Butterflyweed

 

9/15/2022  Purple Giant Hyssop

 

9/15/2022  Oxeye

 

9/15/2022  Black-eyed Susan with Eupithecia caterpillar

 

9/15/2022  Evening Primrose

 

9/29/2022

 

9/29/2022