Ken Lassman
The incredible fuchsia pink of the prairie phlox wildflower is showing up in area prairies, joined by prairie violets, lingering creamy wild indigo, puccoons, verbena and many others on the verge of joining them.
Reb Bryant
We asked readers to please send us their photos of the spring wildflowers on the remnant prairie behind Prairie Park Nature Center, so the Lawrence community can recall their beauty if the flowers don’t come back from the city’s herbicide spray.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
A group of community members on Monday will gather for a healing event following the destruction of wildflowers on remnant prairie behind Prairie Park Nature Center.
Courtney Masterson/Contributed
”Parks and Rec is seriously downplaying the unlikelihood of the prairie (behind Prairie Park Nature Center) recovering after being so seriously damaged and depleted by this senseless act,” Ken Lassman writes in this column.
Courtney Masterson/Contributed
Millions of irreplaceable wildflowers that have grown for thousands of years in the remnant prairie behind Prairie Park Nature Center will be dead within days.
Ken Lassman
The photo at left is what compassplant in the Prairie Park prairie looked like a year ago on May 1, and the image to the right is what it looked like on Sunday. The prairie has been sprayed.
Community members are invited to get to know seven local farms on Saturday during the second annual Douglas County Spring Farm Day.
Jordan Winter/Lawrence Times
Sunrise Project, a Lawrence nonprofit designed to build community through social connection and food equity, is hosting its eighth annual plant sale fundraiser this month.
Molly Adams/Lawrence Times
When Cherin Russell returned to college in the spring of 2020, she wondered whether she could find success as a 30-year-old nontraditional undergraduate student at the University of Kansas.
Ken Lassman
The buckeye is found in native oak hickory woodlands in the eastern third of the state and is now blooming. These pretty flowers will eventually produce hard black buckeye seeds that some people keep in their pockets for good luck.
