Meadow Man Makes a Visit - Updated

Marc Pastorek paid the meadow a visit today to check on progress.  The weather is finally getting warm enough for some of the seeds planted in January to germinate.  We walked the meadow and I heard lots of "oh wow", "this is great" and "we planted that."  Marc also used a lot of Latin words, I think, and got down on his knees a lot.  Then he snapped a few pictures with his iPhone.

 Marc sent me the names of some of the species he identified in the meadow.  Here they are:

Boltonia asteroides

Rudbeckia grandiflora

Rudbeckia nidita variety texana

Eryngium yuccafolia 

Monarda fistulosa

Monarda Lindhiemeri

I have created image collections for each of these species and posted them to the Species Page.

The upshot of the visit is that Marc spotted a number of target species across the entire meadow demonstrating that the planting was very successful.  He was also impressed that there were so many species present at this early stage.  So, it looks like we are off to a good start.

I also learned that evaluating the progress of the meadow is a real science and not a matter of casual observation.  This is hard stuff.  But, Marc promises that the results will be readily apparent over time.

Marc the Meadow Man with a load of wild seed