Yesterday I made the trek up to Stillwater to visit Bustani Plant Farm and take care of some jdstar business. I took one of my neighbors with me and we combed up and down every aisle reading every description and oohing and ahhing over all of the plants. I had only been once before and it was last fall at the very end of their season. I was pretty excited to see what they looked like fully stocked.

So I bought 14 plants, all but one, the Passion Flower, for the pocket prairie. Passion Flower is going in my front flowerbed and something I’ve been looking for for about a month. I picked the other plants because they are native to this area of the country and would help jumpstart the color out there.
So here are the plants, linked to a description:
Fall Blooming Allium Allium stellatum
Giant Coneflower Rudbeckia maxima
Golden False Indigo Baptisia sphaerocarpa
Narrow-leaf Sunflower Helianthus angustifolius
Poppy Mallow Callirhoe involucrata
Rayless Gaillardia Gaillardia suavis
Rock Pink Talinum calycinum
Autumn Sneezeweed Helenium autumnale
Mexican Hat Ratibida columnifera
Magnus Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea ‘Magnus’
Silky Gold Butterfly Weed Asclepias curassavica
Hoary Vervain Verbena stricta
Lead Plant Amorpha canescens
Everything was planted out and watered in this morning. We’ve been talking about where to put the sign and considering adding a pocket library to the pocket prairie. It would be a great place to share some of the gardening books I no longer use. I’m hoping the pole will be placed sometime today. As you can see below, it’s still looking pretty rough. This feels like the hardest part. Waiting and hoping I am not forced to mow it. This picture is from today. What do you think?
