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  • From: "Jacqueline Heriteau" <jacquiheriteau@msn.com>
  • To: "gardenwriters-on-gardening" <gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [gwl-g] wildflowers and meadows
  • Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 15:49:56 -0700

To add to Jeff's description of what happens with "flowering meadows"
The American Horticultural Society headquarters in Alexandria  several years ago planted the lower field in a flowering meadow and took good care starting it and keeping it up... after 3 years it had lost many of the original showy flowers and was beginning to look the way nature plands fields in that region of Virginia...the "exotics" (non natives) were overwhelmed by the natives...  
Jacqueline Heriteau
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Lozenges
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 9:59 PM
To: gardenwriters-on-gardening
Subject: Re: [gwl-g] wildflowers and meadows
 


I have never seen a "Meadow in the can" product work for more than a
few years and always declining as each year passed. Frankly, I am not
sure the promise on the "cans" is that these will never need
replanting.  The idea that these were great things to try and the
implication that they last for many, many years came from garden
writers and photographers and home hort mags!

The Alaska Department of Transportation has tried on a number of
experiments on new roads to establish "meadow" or "wild flowers".  I
can remember mixes with  Arctic Poppies, Shasta Daisies, Lupines and
Cosmos. These all failed the second year.  Individual meadows of each,
with the exception of cosmos, have had longer lives. Shasta Daisies 
and lupines have lasted for 5 years so far. (Let me tell you, a field
of Shasta Daisies smells like a stadium full of used and smelly
sneakers... while a field of blue lupines is a sight to breathe in....)

Up here the cottonwood and alders roll in, then the birch...just little
guys, but no flowering plant other than fireweed has a chance of making
it for long! And I know that every it is natural for a meadow to
progress into a woods and then a forest and this is what happens unless
they are burned...

I must say, a good meadow in a can garden can be fantastic the first
year.

Cheers,

Jeff L

Plant a Row in your garden to feed the hungry. Join Plant A Row for the
Hungry. Ask me how. www.gwaa.org/Par/index.html

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