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.