Photos: Coles County Community Garden
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gardeningThe Coles County Community Garden is across the parking lot from the Charleston Food Forest. It's not the kind where you rent a bed and grow what you want. It's tended by the community and anyone can come pick things to try.
The Coles County Community Garden has a sign inviting people to come pick things to eat.
It has a bunch of raised beds. Some are surrounded by fences. Among the plants I spotted were tomatoes, squash, and some sort of pea or bean.
This raised bed has some sort of legumes growing up its fence.
This one seems to have mostly flowers.
I don't know what this pink flower is, but it's really pretty and there were a lot of them.
A large flowerbed wraps around the small greenhouse and extends off toward the east a ways.
This tall sedum has dark, reddish leaves. I want some. My pollinators love sedum.
These tall purple flowers are growing more or less behind the greenhouse.
Beyond the flower garden stand a couple of garden sheds.
This wild bergamot blooms scarlet. I ate some of the flowers. They're quite tasty. Only my pink bergamot tastes good. The red is awful. The flower flavor varies a lot.
Here is a closeup of a bergamot flower.
In the front part of the flower garden, the yellow flowers are Mexican hats and the orange are gaillardia.
Here's a closeup of the gaillardia.
This part of the front flower garden is next to one of the sheds.
This is purple echinacea.
Yellow coreopsis contrasts with the purple flowers.
A patch of purple prairie clover blooms profusely.
The Coles County Community Garden has a sign inviting people to come pick things to eat.
It has a bunch of raised beds. Some are surrounded by fences. Among the plants I spotted were tomatoes, squash, and some sort of pea or bean.
This raised bed has some sort of legumes growing up its fence.
This one seems to have mostly flowers.
I don't know what this pink flower is, but it's really pretty and there were a lot of them.
A large flowerbed wraps around the small greenhouse and extends off toward the east a ways.
This tall sedum has dark, reddish leaves. I want some. My pollinators love sedum.
These tall purple flowers are growing more or less behind the greenhouse.
Beyond the flower garden stand a couple of garden sheds.
This wild bergamot blooms scarlet. I ate some of the flowers. They're quite tasty. Only my pink bergamot tastes good. The red is awful. The flower flavor varies a lot.
Here is a closeup of a bergamot flower.
In the front part of the flower garden, the yellow flowers are Mexican hats and the orange are gaillardia.
Here's a closeup of the gaillardia.
This part of the front flower garden is next to one of the sheds.
This is purple echinacea.
Yellow coreopsis contrasts with the purple flowers.
A patch of purple prairie clover blooms profusely.
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Date: 2025-06-21 06:18 am (UTC)Thank you!
Date: 2025-06-21 06:39 am (UTC)Wonderful
Date: 2025-06-21 06:59 am (UTC)Back when we were able to go to Neighborhood Association and Town Hall meetings, these sort of things were brought up often. People wanted more and suggested turning over condemned buildings and vacant lots that were just overgrown grass and likely invasive plants.
Re: Wonderful
Date: 2025-06-21 08:03 am (UTC)Sooth. I love ours. It's like something out of the 1970s rather than now.
>> Back when we were able to go to Neighborhood Association and Town Hall meetings, these sort of things were brought up often. People wanted more and suggested turning over condemned buildings and vacant lots that were just overgrown grass and likely invasive plants.<<
Exactly. It's best if you can clear one and plant it with edible and/or native species. But if not, well, that's what seed bombs are for. ;)