'Yard' Restoration...Continues

Yesterday I seeded about 400 square feet of yard to native wildflowers, photo below. Note the sand on the soil; the process of planting requires adding small seeds to 10 cups of sand, mixing thoroughly, then distributing on bare ground. That's it!!

The rock garden seed mix was acquired from Native Ideals Seed Farm. Here's a species list of what was planted:

No doubt it won't be kool-aid; hoping it will look something like this in two years or so (another part of our 'yard'):

Now have very little to mow; I've built it and they have come...wild your yard-planting time is now!

Butterflying Before the Storm

The day started out stormy with a midday respite of sunshine. Did some weeding in our meadow restoration (photo below) while weather cooperated.

Home Meadow

Hurried doing a quick butterfly reconnaissance on a native patch of wildflower, grasses nearby before a thunderstorm rolled in:

Found two species of 'Blue' around flowering lupine (Wyeth's lupine):

Arrowhead Blue

Boisduval's Blue