Kleckner Oasis – Page 29 – ~Oasis Among the Cornfields~

Yellow Sweet Cherry Seedlings

I have a couple Yellow Sweet Cherry seedlings that are starting to gain size and flower.

These Sweet Cherries suppose to have yellow fruit and less likely that bird depredation happens.

Autumn Olive is considered invasive in some locations.

The cultivars I have planted have been the opposite, barely hanging onto life because of various problems, which I think are winters and cankers.

Warming temps have caused a lot of vegetative growth in and around the Vernal Pond.

This growth has attracted more animal life.

A lot of vines are too vigorous for small spots, but the Clematis vine works for those spots.

Clematis is a small vine with large flowers.

An interesting Beech tree to grow is the Copper Beech tree.

The leaves contrast a lot with the green scenery.

This Columbine plant was bought from Oikos Tree Crops and suppose to live for more years than other similar Columbine plants.

So far I have gotten many years of enjoyment out of its flowers.

Red Dragon Hazelnut has been slow growing so far for me.

This is a very interesting plant though, with its reddish leaves and contorted branches.

My Spiraea cuttings easily rooted last year and had good growth.

This year the small plants are already flowering.

I got some Praying Mantis egg cases and put them in jars and wait to release them until they hatch.

Today one of the jars was full of newly hatched Praying Mantises. I quickly sprinkled them throughout the landscape, hoping some live to adulthood.

There are a few native Crabapples on my Oasis. They go by the name of Prairie Crabapple.

These native Crabapples of Iowa have beautiful pink flowers, but the fruit is not palatable to me.