Natural Gardening: Pocket meadows

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Pocket meadows

Meadows are wonderful places, full of movement, buzzing insects, and abundant wildlife. But they're hard to create.

I've been thinking about small-scale meadows (really just exuberant plantings of native perennials and grasses) for awhile. I'm also thinking about ways to best approach their composition and maintenance.

I've admired this grassy meadow planting at the entrance to UNC-Asheville over the last few seasons.

meadow planting at entrance to UNCA

It appears to only need a shearing once or twice a year. How nice is that?

2 comments:

carolynsshadegardens.comMay 30, 2012 at 3:04 PM
Lisa, I hope this is your blog. I just wanted to tell you how much fun I had at the garden blogger's fling in Asheville and how much I enjoyed meeting you. Carolyn
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LKWMay 31, 2012 at 9:23 PM
I'm glad you enjoyed the Fling, Carolyn!

And thanks for the mouse ears hosta, too. It's currently doing well in a small pot before it reaches a final garden home!

Lisa
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Our gardens (in the piedmont of SC and the mountains of NC) are increasingly home to native plants, birds, small mammals, and insects of all sorts. My gardening companion (my husband) is equally the gardener in our gardens. Woody, our rescue Golden, is now putting his own stamp on our gardens. He follows his previous fellow goldens (and my former gardening assistants): Mocha and Chessie. They bring life to our gardens.

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