June 2019-After Several Inches of Rain, the Woods and Gardens Look Great
Cornell Oasis Garden is a Community garden located in the middle of a forest in Kenwood (48th and Cornell, Chicago. Presently we have 31 gardeners. The history of the oasis goes back well over 40 years. Contact Hal Cohen-Raptorhal3@gmail.com if you are interested in joining our community. I finally have a new camera. I'll be blogging on a more regular basis now. We've had an enormous amount of rain over the past 2 months. The temperature has been on the cool side throughout May and into the third week of May. We had a new visitor to the garden today, an Ebony Jewelwing. This damselfly is most often found near water. Perhaps all of the rain has brought him, it's a male, into our woods. The entrance to the garden is pinched near the beginning. This gives the illusion of going into a secret place. Walking the path to the gardens-HC Along the path to the garden are many native wildflowers. Here is wild ginger. Not related to Chinese ginger used in cooking. Wild Ging...