Golden flowers suddenly popped up all over in the past week—especially in the prairie planting that’s just two years old. Tall coreopsis (coreopsis tripteris) is especially abundant this year—whether it’s where we planted it or not. As I walked along a field, the natural combination of the yellow with the blue/purple of ironweed jumped out. (I might be wrong on whether this is tall coreopsis or not—in other website pictures that has a darker center. It could also be ox-eye sunflower, heliopsis helianthoides.) Whatever it is, the fields are covered with it!