Janet's Perennials

07/18/2026

07/18/2026

07/18/2026

Janet’s perennials will be at the Burnett county farmer’s market in Siren tomorrow, July 18 from 10 to 1. I will have these beautiful plants and many more with me. Tomorrow will be my last day at the market for this season. Please stop by and check out the many wonderful vendors.

07/15/2026

Monarch butterfly numbers have dropped by more than 80 percent over the past few decades and the reason is simpler and sadder than most people realize. The caterpillars eat one thing and one thing only, and that plant has been disappearing from the landscape at a rate that the butterflies cannot keep up with. Growing milkw**d in your backyard is one of the most direct things a gardener can do to help, and it is a lot easier to establish from seed than most people think. There is a cold stratification step in the comments that most gardeners skip and that makes all the difference between seeds that germinate and seeds that sit in the ground doing nothing. Full guide is in the comments.

07/15/2026

You have been sold mulch in a bag every spring. You did not need to buy it.

1. CREEPING THYME , dense mat seals soil surface, blocks w**d germination flat
2. WHITE CLOVER , fixes up to 150 kg of nitrogen per hectare, free, every year
3. WOOD SORREL , colonises dry shade gaps in two seasons, edible lemon leaf
4. CORSICAN MINT , 2 cm tall, cools the root zone, deters soil pests by scent
5. CREEPING OREGANO , stabilises dry slopes where sheet mulch slides away
6. SWEET WOODRUFF , builds humus under trees where almost nothing else grows
7. WILD STRAWBERRY , closes bare soil with runners, gives fruit and pollinator habitat

This knowledge did not disappear by accident. Mulch is a margin. Bags, delivery, markup, repeat purchase every season. A living ground cover is a one-time planting that compounds. Nobody profits from that, so nobody promotes it.

What replaced it was the landscape aisle: dyed bark, rubber chips, plastic sheeting. None of it feeds a bee. None of it fixes nitrogen. It suppresses w**ds while suppressing everything else too, including the soil biology you actually need.

Plant one of these in a gap this season. Watch what fills in by autumn... That is not a trick, that is just how ground works when you stop interrupting it.