How To Design An Organized Prairie Garden
The horizontal line is the fundamental thing in the prairie style of architecture as the vertical line is in the gothic style wrote wilhelm miller.
How to design an organized prairie garden. Gardening for beginners 10 tips. The first step to this low maintenance plot is to come up with a prairie garden plan. Give some consideration regarding.
It reflects the original grassland vegetation dominant in the midwest prior to european settlement. The basics of garden design. Plant a diverse prairie garden.
Browse our garden design features below. Cut prairie like foliage down in spring so that plant material accumulated through winter acts as a mulch to supress early germinating weeds. There are no wave petunias in the prairie or plants that bloom all season so choose plants that will bloom in spring summer and fall.
The aim is to create low maintenance ecological communities. To evoke the prairie plant clusters of what miller described as stratified plants i e. Prairie garden design requires you to choose the plants that you want in the space.
Garden design reader benjamin shares his garden in nebraska which is inspired by the native prairie. Plants with strongly marked horizontal branches or flat flower clusters hawthorn trees. Prairie plant communities from seed.
Here are a few things you can do to maximize the impact of your small patchwork prairie garden and further your backyard conservation efforts. The prairie is constantly changing. The most naturalistic way to establish a prairie planting is to sow seed.