With delightful pink blooms and stunning leaves like butterflies, purple shamrock (Oxalis triangularis) is a perfect houseplant if you can keep it full and bushy! But even this easy plant can get leggy and lackluster. That’s why we show you how to prune it like a pro!
How to Create a Meadow Lawn with Native Plants
23.09.2024 - 18:31 / finegardening.com
There’s satisfaction in that perfect crisscross of mown lines across flawless green grass, but with the herbicides, pesticides, water, fuel, and effort it demands, the infamous traditional turf lawn is a monetarily and environmentally costly endeavor. It can also be visually dull for the plant enthusiast and nutritionally dull for wildlife, so there are many good reasons to take on establishing a meadow lawn, whether it replaces all or just a few square feet of your yard.
You can think of meadow lawns in two ways. The first way is the path of least resistance: allowing your lawn to rewild. This can be as simple as letting your lawn grow and seeing what comes in of its own accord. Mowing can be done strategically in order to allow favorable species to flower and produce seed. The second method is eliminating lawn grass entirely and devoting the space to specific flowering perennials and grasses. Though slower and more laborious, this approach has the benefit of offering control over the appearance of your area and the species that compose it.
Let it go, let it go! The lawn, that is. Many of our typical Northeastern lawn invaders are in fact locally native plants. You may already have patches of these persistent lawn “weeds,” which are actually low-growing perennials that brush off mowing with confidence and have the tenacity to compete with lawn grass. If you are unsure what you have growing among your grass, take samples to your local agricultural extension, or try a plant-identification app. Some of these native lawn invaders include:
Most of these are cheerful spring bloomers, and you and pollinators can enjoy their blooms by basically following “no-mow May” After these “weedy“ lawn plants go to seed, you can mow for
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