Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Eye Candy
For those of you who can appreciate a well prepared soil bed, I offer the following images of my progress:
I have not cut the area I am working for meadow planting all season. The result is encouraging in that we have some volunteer plants. I don't know what they are, but it seems if you just give nature a chance it will find its balance.
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According to my meadow man, what you see in the top picture are virginia bluestem (grass) and eupatorium colestinum, early succession species. This land was logged out, planted as pasture, farmed, replanted with pines and lay fallow for at least 30 years. Then I cleared it, turned it and planted turf grass and cut it for 10 years as a lawn. Yet, now, after only six months of simply leaving it alone we see several native species moving back into their natural habitat. Makes me wonder why we fight nature to create unnatural landscapes.
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