Dayna's Landscaping

 Blue Carpet Junipers are groomed at least every other year or they get out of control.  They were trimmed at the driveway entrance in spring of 2020.

This area is comprised of little bluestem blaze grass, Karl Foerster grass, catmint, and yarrow.  Because the horse is running in the "prairie", I decided to make it more uniform and have it all little bluestem blaze grass.  The other plants were overgrown after several years.  In the spring of 2020, I dug them out and planted them in different locations. I then dug, divided and replanted the grass in this area.   This photo is in the winter of 2019 when all varieties of plants are here.  The spaces should fill in with grasses by winter of 2021.

 I don't have a photos of the raised bed at the driveway entrance in my first three years of work.  I removed all of the plants because the dogwood shrub was dead and the daylilies were too thick. I decided to plant annual flowers every year to greet visitors.  My goal was to change flower varieties every year, so the employees would always have something new to see.  Marigolds work well here, but in 2020 the Japanese beetles destroyed blooms for a good portion of the summer.

 This is a short video of a pollinator garden in the Hornady Family Arbor.  Stuhr Museum closes on Labor Day every year, so visitors don't usually get to see this Monarch Migration.  There are a few more garden areas that provide for bees and butterflies, too.  This video was done on September 27, 2020.

I've always called the three levels of the raised beds leading up the the Gus Fonner Rotunda Entrance, the tiers.  The tiers are somewhat difficult to manage for so many reasons.  I am still trying to figure it out. In 2014, the surrounding area was under construction.  I didn't know that I could remove the concrete urns and had to use the flowers given to me when taking the job in mid-season.  Most garden centers were out of flowers. Nothing looks good here. In 2015, the grand re-opening of the Stuhr put pressure on me to make this area look good.  I still didn't realize the urns didn't have to stay.  I still hated the way it looked.  I didn't like spending over $500 in supertunias either.  They frequently had to be fertilized because the soil is very sandy.  The grass in each tier was a nice place for the ducks to sleep, too.   In 2016, I decided to remove the huge Karl Foerster grass in each tier and divide them.  I tried differe...