Roger Dahlin's Garden

Baldwinsville, New York

Over 100 different wildflower species are planted in Roger's Garden
Roger's project was started in 2012, this picture gives you a sense of what it looks like in 2021
Project Starting Date - May 2012 - Current

This is one of the projects that Nodding Onion Gardens has been involved with. My father, Roger Dahlin has done all the work: planting propagating and, this year, lots of watering.
July 12, 2012
I am attaching three photos I took this morning to give you some insight to how the garden is doing with mostly your plants The area is about 8X78 feet The large plants are mostly those I got from you in big pots. I like to think that next year it will really fill in. I will send you later photos because some of the big plants have not bloomed yet.
Roger (Dad)
One real pleasant surprise is the photo of the Cardinal flower that is starting to bloom I think I told you that I moved this plant from my garden because I thought it was another coneflower Did not know I could get it to survive up there Roger
What is great about wildflowers/native plants is that in a year or so this once grassy patch will become a beautiful butterfly garden. As my naturalist friend Dave Davorak says, "growing natives develops and takes patience".
Bring Back the Monarch Butterfly! July 2012

Would you like to make you garden more earth -friendly?
Let Mr. Roger Dahlin, show you how.
You have probably seen him in the early morning hours working hard in our recently established wildflower garden, next to the horseshoe pit. The prolonged drought did not make it an easy task, fortunately Jody ’s faucet now provides the needed water, and a soaker hose keeps the plants happy. The monarch butterfly caterpillars will be especially happy: they need milkweeds to survive. I know that milkweed cannot compete with your pretty roses or peonies, but Mr. Dahlin can provide you with a smaller version of the big plant that dominate your garden, and does not need fertilizer or insecticide which is so detrimental to the environment. Monarch butterflies are the only insect that migrate long distances and unfortunately less of them are coming down from Mexico each year, due to the loss of habitat, etc. They are so beautiful lets give them a hand.
Now if we could convince our chief executive officer to have True Green use less fertilizer and pesticide each year, the butterflies would be much happier.
Johanna
Johanna for their community news letter.
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