Frosty Morning on the Farm

An early fall frost left the remaining flowers covered in frost.

 

Wildflowers on the Farm

Flowers blooming around the farm.

 

Hoffman Hills Wildflowers

An assortment of wildflowers found at Hoffman Hills Recreation Area.

Grey-headed Coneflower

Lead Plant

Butterfly Weed

Purple Coneflower

Queen Anne’s Lace

Rattlesnake Master

Flowers Blooming around the Farm

I have a wide variety of flowers blooming in my prairies.

Heal-all

Bachelor’s Button

Catchfly

Sweet William

Wild Bergamot

Common Yarrow

Gloriosa Daisies

As I mentioned in an earlier blog I had been growing Black-eyed Susan’s around my well head. At the end of the season I cut them and dumped them in my prairie. Gradually they started growing but in their reincarnation they were growing as Gloriosa Daisies. I have noticed in the last couple of years that many of them seem to now be coming back as Black-eyed Susans.

 

Black-eyed Susan’s

For quite a few years I raised Black-eyed Susan’s in a small areas around my well head. At the end of the season I would cut them down and throw the cuttings out into my prairie area. Gradually they started growing in the prairie and now I have an abundance of them.

 

Hoffman Hills Flowers

A sampling of the flowers blooming in the prairie at Hoffman Hills Recreation Area.

Butterfly Weed

Black-eyed Susan

Milkweed

Red Clover

Showy Tick-trefoil

Hoffman Hills Wildflowers

I found these blooming at Hoffman Hills on a morning with a heavy dew.

Prairie Smoke

Common Cinquefoil

Butterfly-weed

Beardtounge

Hoffman Hills Wildflowers

These are some of the wildflowers I found on a recent visit to Hoffman Hills Recreation Area.

Prairie Smoke

Spiderwort

Orange Hawkweed

Goat’s Beard

Daisy Fleabane

Canada Hawkweed

Beardtounge

Orange Hawkweed

Orange Hawkweed is blooming on the farm.