The Gardens on Spring Creek

  Liatris pycnostachya  (purple bloom) , Pycnanthemum muticum (upper right foliage) , Symphyotrichum laterflorus (dark purple foliage in foreground) What’s Blooming in August:   The Prairie Garden by Bryan Fischer, Horticulturist, The Gardens on Spring Creek   While the “dog days” of summer represent a quiet time in many gardens in our region, emblemized by plants that brown-out or resort to a scorched, stupor-like state of semi-dormancy, these hot days usher in the fashionably-late arrival for the  bloom  of many prairie natives. Thriving off warm nights, which take longer to arrive here on the Front Range than in much of the Midwest due to our elevation, the residents of our Prairie Garden have finally made their gaudy entrance onto the scene.  Guara lindheimer  and Artemisia frigida Perhaps the first arrival this year from the late season bloomers in the Prairie Garden,  Oenothera (Gaura)  lindheimer  (commonly called just gaura or bee blossom) has been dazzling for weeks, cr