Fall: Grasses & Foliage

Here's an update from my 10/6/10 post that showed a B & W image of a client's garden in Evanston on Labor Day. Above you can see the Joe Pye Weed upper right. That bolt of yellow front left is Amsonia hubrechtii, a fine native plant known as Thread-leaf or Arkansas Blue Star.

Below its brightness mediates between the green of some Butterfly Weed & a dwarf White Pine and the fully-saturated red of Virginia Sweetspire.

I love the texture the grasses provide in both views. We have a combination of several Panicums, Calamagrostis and Seslaria. You can also see how nice the dried seed heads of Echinacea look against the grass....not to mention the birdseed they will provide in the months to come.

What you cannot experience here is the wind's movement captured by plants that stirs the soul.