The Meadow Project
A longterm project to reclaim a former septic field with mostly native grasses and wildflowers to create habitat.

Meadow gardens require trial and error and patience.  But they are well worth it as the results serve more than to beautify.  Meadow gardens provide valuable habitat for many species of wildlife, whose homes and habitat are disappearing everywhere.

This meadow project was a long term endeavor.  Gardens are “never” truly finished, being composed of living things with lifecycles.  Meadows especially are difficult to first establish.  However, after about 3 years of proper planning, planting and care, they can start to be self-maintaining, as this one is.  This meadow is never watered or fertilized.  All it needs is one mowing of the dead stalks in the winter to allow the past season’s seeds to disperse and room for the perennials to reemerge in the spring.  Minimal weeding is needed because it is heavily planted with both perennials and grasses, so there is very little room for weeds to take hold.