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| PRAIRIES GRASSES AND WILDFLOWERS AT ENTRANCE TO BROWNSTONE TRAIL |
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| COREOPSIS, MILFOIL AND BUTTERFLY WEED |
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| LITTLE BLUESTEM GRASS |
I cleaned all the weeds out of the rose hedge and lost enough hemoglobin in the process to donate to a blood drive. I am debating putting a weed barrier cloth down with mulch on top of it but I am reluctant to do so for several unconvincing reasons. I guess I am a masochist at heart.
Two years ago I designed a new entrance to the very popular Bayfield Brownstone Trail, which starts at the boat launch on Fourth Street and Wilson Ave. and is managed by The Bayfield Regional Conservancy. It is a two mile trail to the south that follows an old railroad grade. We wanted to use all native plants, and prairie species fit the bill. Strictly speaking the prairie plant association does not extend this far north, but all these plants are native here in the Bayfield area, and technically are members of meadow, beach and barrens communities. The plants were all grown locally from seed at Wildflower Woods Nursery in Washburn, and were planted under my direction by volunteers.
The weather was already hot and dry when the planting was done but with plenty of water, mulching and weeding the planting established rapidly. it is now a healthy, almost maintenance-free landscape, whether technically a "prairie" or not. For more detailed explanations of the project, use the blog search engine and enter Brownstone Trail.
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