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  • From: stedman@rcn.com
  • To: gardenwriters-on-gardening <gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [gwl-g] wildflowers and meadows
  • Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 22:13:28 -0400

I once visited Sara Stein's garden in New York state (she
wrote about it in a book called something like Noah's
Garden--sorry, I'm not at my home computer). She definitely
had a meadow but it sounded like an enormous amount of work.
She does a lot of weed killing with Round-Up or something
equivalent.
There is also a tightly managed meadow at the Garden in the
Woods in New England.
I also, last week, visited a public park called Orchard Beach
in the Bronx. The park rangers took us (a science writer's
group) to a small area that constituted what they believe has
been a meadow since at least the time of the native
Americans. They said that it had stayed a meadow because,
first, the Indians periodically burned it, and then, second,
the Bronx residents had periodically set it on fire. The
meadow includes some endemic species that appear virtually
nowhere else. But all the other meadows in that park have
basically turned into weedy woodlands.
My suspicion is that meadows are rare occurrences in the
Northeast, where the land really wants to be woods.
Nancy Stedman, NYC




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