Wildflowers Adding Some Benefit

 

The area left of the driveway has been a natural area for many years.  We decided this past winter to add some interest and benefit to it.  I seeded in wildflowers after removing the vegetation.  The picture below does not do it justice but the colors are striking.  This year annuals will dominate the area and perennials will follow.  We will have to add more annual seed next year to keep the interest up most of the season.  The only non wildflower plants in the meadow are milkweed, which are beneficial to monarch butterflies and produce a flower as well.  In order to remove the milkweed either by picking or spraying, we would have to walk through the area, damaging or killing flowers.  Better to leave it be.

Fairway Expansions

 

Under the guidance of Andy Staples, we began adding our fairway expansions in now, a year before the renovation of the golf course begins.  Originally, we were going to move fairway sod around or purchase new sod, but by doing this now, we have a good 18 months to get the new fairway expansions to match up to our original fairway lines.  Above you will see how we scalped the rough down, verticut and topdressed, sprayed out the rough grasses and in only 2.5 months, we are already looking pretty good.  Doing it this way also saved us almost $100,000 vs buying or moving sod.