Wildlife Habitat Garden Tour

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Stan examines a water feature at the Idea Wild Garden. |
Cool post decorations. |
Wally collected these logs from various places he had worked at and used them to decorate his yard. |
Next stop was the Nix Natural Area. Here are some oak shrubs with very hardy, leathery leaves. |
A bunny was one of the wildlife creatures stopping by. |
Stan and Cecilia inspect a Marsh Sunflower plant at the Nix Natural Area. |
Mexican Hat flowers. |
Huge native sunflowers! |
Ceclia shows us a spiralry seed that can penetrate through layers of mulch quite easily. |
Rock with cutouts that served as bird drinking areas. |
Harebell. |
The Griffin Garden was perhaps the best manicured of any ones we had seen. |
The Griffins even had their own greenhouse. |
Cool birdhouse in front of a pond that contained many water lilies. |
Lots of perennials. |
Black-eyed Susans at the Morgan Garden. |
Irrigation ditch looked natural. |
Bird feeder with “gourmet” bird food included dried cranberries. |
I loved the Morgan’s perennial garden! This will be the inspiration for my own… |
Plants included Siloam Double Classic, Plum Perfect, Chorus Line, “Spanish Peaks” Foxglove, Chocolate Flower, Petite Delight Bee Balm, Pardon Me, Apricot Sparkles, Rosy Returns Daylily, and Blanket Flower Gaillardia. |