Prairie Plants- Prairie Day Sign

The big Prairie Appreciation Day my work helps conduct every year is coming up.  And the booth I worked last year was very barren, especially considering how much diversity we were supposed to be representing out there.  Time to step it up!

I'm starting by making an actual sign.  How can people know what to come to the booth for if there's not even a sign?!!?  Will include lots of the prairie species you'd see out there.  But anything is better than the fat goose egg that there was last year.  :)

Can get rid of random glitter at last!  Sparkly sky, totally works

Will embellish those letters after they dry, worry not

5/1/18- Lupine and pearly everlasting on left next to balsamroot (our prairie sunflower that smells like Tootsie-rolls, I kid you NOT)

Letters updated and more legible and some new plants

From right- Camas, chocolate lily, yarrow, spring gold (Lomatium utriculatium), fleabane, and baldhip rose

5/12/18

 Sign is ready enough for its first Prairie Appreciation Day.

at bottom from right- native mustard (Cardamine oligosperma, little western bittercress) and the cute little parasitic naked broomrape (Orobanche uniflora). And a bracken fern up top

 

Added shotting star (pink one up front there) and bluebell next to it, plus the cute little sea pink (Armeria maritima)

Next year for the it's second Prairie Appreciation Day Plant ID booth, I'll add another suite of species.  There are a LOT of lovely plants out there.  It will take a while to add the majority of them :)