Category: Ornamentals

  • Muhly Mania at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

    Muhly Mania at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

    There were two places at Austin, TX that I wanted to visit. One was the Half Pint Prairie at the University of Texas at Austin’s campus (a student project from the Covid years that turned a small plot smack-dab in the middle of the city into a mini prairie), and the other was UT Austin’s…

  • Muhlenbergia capillaris: Going native ain’t bad at all

    Muhlenbergia capillaris: Going native ain’t bad at all

    The Florida community I live in has an HOA that mandates that all landscape plants be native to the region. This means that all the colorful and robust ornamental imports that people would normally gravitate to are off limits to homeowners. In some ways, this might have been a negative, given that one cannot select…