Miller Fall Entrance – 2020

Miller Fall Entrance – Before (2019)

Miller Fall Entrance – After (2020)

On Sept. 30 we removed persistent nandinas and added native perennials at the Miller Fall entrance, so that 75% of all plants at there are native. They are:

• MANY Rudbeckia ‘Goldsturm’ or Rudbeckia hirsuta “black-eyed susans” and Echinacea purpurea “pink coneflowers”, transplanted from the Roslyn entrance

• a Symphyotrichum novae-angliae “New England Aster” with a deep purple bloom

• a reddish/orange-leafed Heuchera ‘Rio’ “coral bell” (not native)

• a Tiny Tortuga Turtlehead (Chelone obliqua), which has dark leaves and hot-pink blooms that look like turtle heads

• 2 coreopsis plants (coreopsis hybrida, UpTick Gold & Bronze), which have large yellow and red daisy-like blooms. It’s  “a compact herbaceous perennial forming a tidy and bushy mound of narrow, mid-green foliage. Blooming continuously from early summer into fall, it produces masses of impressively large, bright, golden-yellow flowers with bronzy-red centers.”

Roslyn Entrance

Roslyn Entrance – Before (2019)

Roslyn Entrance – After (2020)

For the Roslyn entrance, Sandy Ceely planted the following: a fountain grass (to 2 mirror the other bed) and a native wild ageratum, and she replanted native coral bells. (More coral bells would be replanted in spring if they survive.) In the winter (November/December) 2020, 100 tulips were purchased and planted for the entrances to bloom in the Spring 2021.