patw

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Army brat, Army wife. "All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all." Also, "He who made kittens, put snakes in the grass." Still, we must get back to the garden.

Mexican hair-grass (I think) in foreground. Karl Forster in back, showing signs, I think, of the yellow stripe fungus. Little clump to the right of K.F. is a native big bluestem, coming up.

All non-grass vegetation cut out of lawn several years ago. Rocky Mountain Columbine & other columbine, verbascum, checkermallow, California poppies, clover.

Iris getting ready to bloom. English daisies from seed from Butchart Gardens. Purple lacy phacelia in upper right.

Two tall 'Karl Forster' and (leftmost) a 'Karl Forster' that was chopped back last early summer, because it was showing signs of the stripe rust that is affecting wheat in the Willamette Valley. I like the way it ended up looking. In front is what may be a 'Mexican Hair' grass; it is lovely! -- until it rains, then the 'hair' gets matted down. I have ruby Muhly grass as filler, and it never shows like it does in catalog pictures.

White fluffy bunnytail grass, abt 10" high. Zonal geranium, shirley poppies, California poppies, sparse pods of a native (I think) Queen Anne's Lace wild relative, and a purple, tall sedum.