Wow - its been so long since I posted here and yet so much has happened. Seemingly overnight, the meadow burst into flower. The following picture is mid-summer and the whole meadow was a riot of yellow and purple. Butterflies and bugs of all sorts were everywhere.
As fall came, the meadow moved into its brown phase. The flowers went to seed and the grasses does back. Below is the meadow in December.
And then it was time to complete the annual cycle with fire. We did a prescribed burn the first of March and now we enter the black phase of the meadow.
Winter has been cold and wet and the ground is pretty well saturated. Plants are already starting to grow, so in a few weeks we will start the cycle and go green again.
Marc Pastorek, the meadow man posted a piece on his blog about the burn. You can read it here:
https://marcpastorek.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/2-st-tammany-residential-pine-prairie-gardens-burned-go-team-green/
