These images are all from my "second-year" prairie, the areas that I planted 18 months ago with the Palouse Conservation District grant. There are some plants in this area that have been here for awhile--the Arrowleaf balsamroot (past blooming now, but you can see the large leaves on the right side of the photo) is fifteen years old--but most of this area was replanted with natives when I received the PCD grant. This area is where I took the previous post's images of Midget phlox, which I didn't plant, but it was somehow inspired to show up here. It is still blooming, but you can't really see it in this image--they really are tiny flowers.
One of the great successes of the PCD replanting was Taper-leaved penstemon (below), which I think is spectacularly beautiful. This one blooming here was planted as a plant in a pot (from the Idaho Native Plant Society sale last year), but I also purchased a bunch of seed and there are many, many penstemon sprouts all over the place on the property now. I am really looking forward to seeing drifts of this fabulous flower in the future!
One of the plants that I planted in this area years ago was this Gaillardia aristata, which has now grown into a substantial clump. This is a plant that you can buy in a lot of nurseries--supposedly it is the same species--but the cultivar generally has redder petals. I think the local native version is more beautiful. The seeds for this one came from a population that grows a mile east of here.
I have to go through this entire area to pull seed heads off of cheatgrass and other annual grass species, but it is basically finished, as far as substantial planting is concerned...
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