Opinion by Camille T. Dungy: Last year’s sunflowers save this year’s garden
When a friend drove me home in the second week of April, I told him to stop at the house with the sunflowers. “What sunflowers?”During a month when much of the United States has daffodils spreading bright yellow smiles and pink buds are clustering on branches, in my Northern Colorado garden, the sunflowers are a witch’s grove of tan skeletal stalks, deadheads drooping. It looks as though I’ve let the remnants of last year’s flowers remain far past their welcome.
But many landscape design experts suggest maintaining stands of dried flowers and bunch grasses to give the eye consistent pleasure through the winter. In my yard, I leave brittle sunflowers. I leave milkweed reeds and their long-emptied pods. I leave clusters of rudbeckia stalks and gangly clumps of side oats grama.
I won’t pull them down, however, because I want my garden to do more than please my eyes. The two- to eight-foot stalks I’ve let stand have formed something akin to a seine. As with the fishing nets that hang vertically in the water, they have caught the leaves that floated through the autumn air and pulled them close to the soil. Mats of leaves now blanket the ground, providing an insulated habitat for pollinators along with their eggs and larvae.
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