Hurrah again for the Prairie

I spent a very long weekend "up north" where Lake Michigan lowers the Illinois temperatures considerably. The spring there was actually more than a week behind my own micro-ecology here. And I got back to cheer for the false indigo, it is indeed determined to be a non-spindly plant, one that matters, this year.

And those hundred tulips all orange and pink that I planted in the row of daylilies all bloomed, probably on Mother's Day, with some purple honesty to spark them up. I'm very contented with this particular part of Illinois today.