When we bought our land in 2000, Twisted Oak Savanna was a large, overgrown savanna area behind the bluff prairie on Indian Grass Point.  For a long time we included work we did there in the updates on Indian Grass Point.  Finally, in 2017, the savanna area was big enough, and distinctive enough, that we […]

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Great Plains Lady’s Tresses grows on our dry bluff prairies.  The plants have basal leaves which come out in early summer, but wither by the time flowering starts in early fall.  The flowers have a wonderful scent – it smells to me like Lily of the Valley, or vanilla. 9/20/2014   7/26/2009  Flowers not quite […]